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Senior Python Engineer, Truework

185k – 218kSan Francisco, CAHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

As a Senior Python Engineer on the Truework team, you will develop and maintain a platform used by top mortgage lenders. This role involves taking ownership of product development, collaborating with stakeholders, and delivering high-quality, scalable solutions.

About the role

What you’ll do

  • Be an independent individual contributor who can solve problems and deliver high-quality solutions with minimal/high-level oversight and a high level of ownership
  • Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset to the table - collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful features
  • Partner with engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders in designing and architecting new features
  • Experimentation mindset - autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP
  • Quality mindset - you insist on quality as a critical pillar of your software deliverables
  • Analytical mindset - instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven approach
  • Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code capable of supporting Truework’s significant scale
  • Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team

What you bring

  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Bachelor degree (or equivalent education/training)
  • Proficiency in Python and Javascript (or similar languages/frameworks)
  • Experience developing RESTful APIs
  • Strong communication and documentation skills
  • A strong sense of ownership from feature design through production release
  • A desire to collaborate with external stakeholders
  • An eagerness to learn, collaborate, improve, innovate, and have fun
  • An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes

Compensation

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA) $185,000—$218,000 USD

What We Offer

  • A fast-paced and collaborative environment
  • Learning and development allowance
  • Competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement
  • 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
  • Flexible PTO policy
  • Monthly wellness stipend
Skills
PythonJavaScriptRESTful APIsSystem DesignProblem Solving
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