Who We Are
Join a team that puts its People First! Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eight consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.
What We Do
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Be part of a transformative team that is shaping the way First American builds and delivers world-class technology products that fuel the real estate industry. We are looking for the best-of-the-best technology experts who will envision, design, build, and deliver innovative solutions that provide exceptional experiences and lasting value to our customers.
First American is seeking software engineering candidates to grow our team. An ideal candidate has strong technical expertise, a product mindset, and takes a hands-on approach to building high-quality and sustainable software products. As a Software Engineer, you will take part in projects of a small, focused engineering delivery team, to build fast, clean, reliable code that drives business value for our customers. You will be a part of a transformative team, whose mission is to modernize our core, Title & Settlement Platform using modern tools, techniques, and cloud-native services.
Code: You will be an active contributor to the codebase, designing, developing, testing, and deploying code supporting our most complex functional areas. You will architect andimplement modern world-class services that are scalable,highly available, and fault tolerant.
Collaborate/Partner: Collaborate with product management, solution architects, and other cross-functional teams, to iteratively design, develop, and validate outcome-driven technology solutions.
Operational Excellence: Implement solutionsthat are high quality, secure, and observable. Be an active member of the team contributing to reviews of designs, code,artifactsand metrics.
Continuous Improvement: Join a team determined to achieve ambitious goals, providing regular feedback, and driving continuous improvement.
What You’ll Bring:
Experience with engineering best practices for a high-functioning software engineering team, effectively leveraging tools and automation.
Passion and expertise for building back-end services and APIs, using modern architectures (Macro / Mini / Micro Services).
An understanding of software engineering principles and modern infrastructure operations.
A dependable ability to work under guidance day-to-day, while partnering with industry experts and fellow technologists as part of a vibrant team.
Familiarity with deployment and observability strategies that support continuous delivery and high availability in a cloud-native environment.
Fresh ideas and feedback to suggest areas for continuous improvement.
Ideally, you will also have experience with:
C# (.NET Core, .NET Framework), TypeScript & React / Node.js or Golang
Containerized development (Docker)
Kubernetes
Relational (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB) databases
Automated software testing (unit, integration, contract)
Infrastructure automation tooling such as Terraform and Ansible
AWS Cloud Services: API Gateway, EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, ECR, EC2 Container Service, S3, Elastic File System, Lambda, RDS, Application Load Balancer, Step functions, SQS, Kinesis, SNS, EventHub, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Transit Gateways.
Working within a highly regulated industry such as Financial Services or Healthcare
Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong relationship, collaboration and organizational skills
Pay Range: $69,520 - $135,438 Annually
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements, and geographic location.
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What We Offer
By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it’s the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.
