Forward Deployed Engineer

Company: LoanSnap
Location: Irvine
Posted on: September 13, 2019

Job Description:

What Makes Us Different:

A mortgage is the most significant financial transaction many people make yet most mortgage companies prioritize profit over the right loan for the consumer. Using AI and Machine Learning, we both delight the consumer with a process that saves them time and ensures they get the right loan for their financial situationAnd that's just the hard part. Once that's underway, we plan to rebuild the whole mortgage market. It's a colossal vision with a trillion dollar market. There is an infinite number of complex problems to help solve in AI, user-experience magic, NLP, data visualization, and financial engineering.Our two founders of LoanSnap Holdings, Inc., Karl Jacob and Allan Carroll, are serial entrepreneurs whose companies have helped tens of millions of consumers: from protecting them from spam to communicating with family members over almost 10 companies. We already have strong backing from some of the top investors in the world.You'd join our growing, but, quickly growing, a team of smart engineers, visionary product managers, and serial entrepreneurs and be expected to solve large, high-impact problems from day one. Since we're still small, there are also tons of opportunities for people to see how a company gets built.Job DescriptionYou love to dig into the details and learning by working closely with domain experts. You have built, shipped, and documented products used in the real world.

We are a small, smart, and fun team backed by top VC firms. Our two founders, Karl Jacob and Allan Carroll, are serial entrepreneurs whose companies have helped millions of consumers from protecting them from spam to communicating with family members. Karl has raised 23 rounds of financing, created 6 companies from scratch and built products and companies that impact 10s of millions of people. Now we are helping consumers with the largest financial transaction of their lives and making sure they don't get a bad loan that costs them money and financial security.

Your job will be to work closely with our mortgage, marketing, and product teams to build and deploy tools that make their jobs easy and fun. Success will be measured by how well you can learn the process, find optimizations, and tame complexity using elegant solutions.

You're good at:
* Prototyping, building, and testing reliable software
* Creating tools that make a whole company more efficient
* Learning and documenting new, complex ideas quickly

Extra Credit:
* You have built a non-trivial software tool
* You have a passion for something outside the office
* You have a notebook very full of details and minutiaeOur Stack:
* React / Redux / CSS-in-JS
* React Native
* GraphQL
* Python / Django
* Docker / Kubernetes / Google Cloud
* MySQLSkillsPython, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Django, React.js, React NativeWhat We're BuildingIn 5 minutes, LoanSnap Holdings, Inc. can find a smart loan that saves a customer money, is right for them now and gives them peace of mind by anticipating their financial future.

Keywords: LoanSnap, Irvine , Forward Deployed Engineer, Engineering , Irvine, California