ARIVE - Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Requirements
• API & Systems Design: Strong command of RESTful API design, microservices and event-driven architectures, and message queues (e.g., SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ). • API & Systems Design • Data Fluency: Deep experience with both relational and NoSQL data modeling, query optimization, indexing strategies, and zero-downtime migrations. • Data Fluency • Quality Mindset: Solid habits around automated testing (unit, integration, E2E), code review, and CI/CD; you ship fast without breaking things. • Quality Mindset: • Security Awareness: Working knowledge of secure SDLC practices — authN/authZ patterns (OAuth 2.0, JWT), OWASP Top 10, and handling sensitive data in a regulated environment. • Security Awareness • Observability: Experience with monitoring and APM tooling (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic) and a bias toward measuring before optimizing. • Observability • Escalation Experience: You’ve served as an engineering point of contact for support escalations and stay calm and methodical when debugging live production systems under pressure. • AI-Forward: You leverage AI coding tools to maximize your speed and output — and are excited to help build AI-powered capabilities into the platform. • AI-Forward: • Startup DNA: Proactive, self-directed, and comfortable with ambiguity; you thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment and communicate clearly across teams. • Startup DNA • Bonus Points: FinTech, mortgage, or other regulated-industry experience; familiarity with LOS/POS platforms or the loan origination lifecycle is a strong plus.
Responsibilities
• Design & Build: Architect, develop, and maintain scalable RESTful APIs and backend services using Node.js and TypeScript, powering mission-critical loan origination workflows. • Design & Build: • Data Engineering: Design efficient database schemas and optimize queries and migrations across PostgreSQL and MongoDB; implement caching strategies (e.g., Redis) for high-throughput workloads. • Data Engineering • Cloud & Containers: Build, test, and deploy containerized applications with Docker; deploy and operate services on AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, SQS). • Cloud & Containers • DevOps Collaboration: Partner with DevOps to strengthen CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting). • DevOps Collaboration • Reliability & Security: Champion system reliability, performance, and secure coding best practices — our platform handles sensitive borrower data, and we operate in a SOC 2 Type II environment where security is a first-class engineering concern. • Reliability & Security: • Production Ownership: Partner with our Support team as an engineering point of contact for escalated production issues at scale — triage, root-cause, and resolve end-to-end, then land the permanent fix, alerting, and runbooks so issues don’t recur. Drive performance optimization across the backend and data layers. • Production Ownership • Global Collaboration: Coordinate daily with our India-based engineering team — handoffs, code reviews, and design alignment — keeping core hours of 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM PT to maximize morning overlap. • Global Collaboration: • Technical Leadership: Lead technical design sessions and code reviews, mentor mid-level engineers, and contribute to product planning and architectural roadmaps. • Technical Leadership • Things We Look For • Things We Look For • Experience: 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience with most, if not all, of the following: Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, and Docker.
Benefits
• Work Authorization: Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. • Work Authorization: • ARIVE (arive.com) is the industry's first integrated LOS, POS, and Pricing Engine with a connected Lender Marketplace, purpose-built for independent mortgage originators. We are a dynamic high-growth company revolutionizing digital mortgage originations, and our platform seamlessly connects independent loan originators, top-tier wholesale lenders, borrowers, referral partners, credit providers, and property and settlement service providers — creating a faster, more transparent, and more affordable path to homeownership. • Compensation: The US base salary range for this full-time position is $120,000 – $180,000 + up to 15% performance-based bonus. The position is eligible for performance-based equity compensation. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level, and role; individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance. • 401(k) plan with employer match. • Generous PTO policy. • Endless learning and growth opportunities in a fast-paced, growth-mode startup environment. • A supportive, inclusive, and high-performance company culture.
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