Senior Software Engineer

The joy of owning a home should never be overshadowed by the hassle of buying one.

Senior Software Engineer, Back End

Location:  Remote, US. Candidates located near Seattle, WA, Detroit, MI or New York, NY may work from our offices there whenever they choose to.

Reports To: Engineering Manager

Type:  Full-Time; Remote

We’re Looking For Someone Who:

• Has empathy for homebuyers and enjoys building technology that improves their journey from discovery to closing.
• Brings their own unique background and experiences to the team, adding fresh ideas and perspectives.
• Thrives in a startup environment with ambiguity and enjoys collaborating to figure out the best path forward.
• Is a team-first engineer who jumps in to fight fires, provides constructive feedback, and always thinks about both the customer and Tomo as a whole.
• Learns continuously and stays current with new trends and technologies, especially in backend engineering and AI.
• Has experience leveraging LLMs in software engineering and is excited to push our capabilities further.
• Works independently and makes sound decisions without requiring heavy oversight.
• Enjoys working with a geographically distributed team (US)

You'll be:

• Designing, building, and maintaining scalable Python microservices that power Tomo’s platform.
• Owning backend architecture decisions and contributing to API design and integration patterns across services.
• Deploying, monitoring, and supporting systems in production as part of an on-call rotation.
• Driving healthy engineering practices, including code review, iterative delivery, automated testing, and continuous deployment.
• Collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver seamless customer experiences.
• Leveraging AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps tooling to ensure reliability and performance.
• Support deployed systems in production as part of an on-call rotation.

You'll need:

• A history (5+ years) of experience delivering meaningful software projects to production—from conception through design, implementation, deployment, and iteration.
• Experience with delivering high-quality customer experiences on large consumer-facing websites, including a deep understanding of front-end technology stacks and how to use them to produce performant, satisfying, well-crafted user experiences.
• Understanding of modern software engineering practices, including logging, monitoring, continuous deployment, and automated testing
• Proficiency with Python and experience building backend systems using microservice architectures.
• Solid understanding of AWS services, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience using AI-powered developer tools is a must. You’ve leveraged LLMs or similar technologies to enhance your coding efficiency, even if not yet working with fully agentic coding systems.
• To be inquisitive, ready to engage in vibrant debate, make difficult decisions quickly, and learn continuously.

You might also have:

• Experience integrating or optimizing LLM-powered workflows.
• Familiarity with financial services, fintech, real estate, or home lending technology systems.
• Experience in modern frontend frameworks or API contract design.
• Experience with observability tools like Datadog.

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