Lower Llc
Staff Software Engineer, LowerOS
Columbus, USA · Staff+ · Full-time
No sponsorshipDetected 57 days ago
TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsCode ReviewGitPostgreSQLAWSCI/CDDevOpsCybersecurityStakeholder ManagementNegotiationTest AutomationLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringUnderwriting
About the role
- Job Description: LowerOS is our modern operating system that powers Lower's digital mortgage and home finance experiences end to end.
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering, product, and business leaders to translate strategic business initiatives into scalable technical solutions, clearly communicating tradeoffs, risks, and long-term architectural considerations.
- Coach junior and mid-level engineers, providing guidance on coding practices, system design, and career development.
- Promote best practices in readability, maintainability, and scalability through constructive code reviews, providing guidance and support.
- Drive alignment and technical execution across multiple engineering teams, fostering collaboration, reducing organizational friction, and promoting shared engineering standards and best practices.
- Produce and maintain high-quality technical documentation for systems, processes, and decisions.
- Develop deep expertise in Lower's systems, infrastructure, and domain workflows, helping teams navigate technical complexity and make informed architectural decisions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, including experience designing and scaling enterprise-grade web applications and distributed systems (or closely related fields).
- Proficiency in our stack - TypeScript, React, AWS, Next.js, Node.js and Postgres -or the ability to quickly learn new languages, frameworks, and tools.
- Strong track record of mentoring engineers, scaling engineering best practices, and improving technical decision- making within growing organizations.
- Proficiency in profiling, debugging, and optimizing application performance.
- Experience with deployment pipelines, monitoring, observability, and release management.
- Knowledge of secure coding practices, threat modeling, and compliance requirements.
Nice to have
- Prior experience in fintech, lending, or consumer financial products is a plus, but not required.
Skills
- Code quality & testing: Strong in unit, integration, end-to-end testing, and test automation frameworks.
- Performance optimization: Proficiency in profiling, debugging, and optimizing application performance.
- DevOps & CI/CD: Experience with deployment pipelines, monitoring, observability, and release management.
- Security awareness: Knowledge of secure coding practices, threat modeling, and compliance requirements.
- Data & APIs: Comfortable designing and consuming APIs, working with databases, and handling data modeling.
- Risk management: Identify risks early (technical debt, bottlenecks, scalability limits) and propose mitigations.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Full-time W2 employment, visa sponsorship is not available for this position at this time.
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