Job description
What we’re doing
Owning a home is a foundational part of building financial security and wealth in America. However, the tools and technology that support homeownership are antiquated, dependent on things like fax machines, handwritten documentation, and hours of manual review.
We’re here to change it.
Vesta is the next-generation system of record to power the multi-trillion mortgage market. We believe that we are overdue for a core transformation – that in order to build a fully automated process and fully digital customer journeys, lenders will have to adopt a system of record platform that is modern, open, and orchestrated by best-in-class software workflows.
Who we are
Our founding team is no stranger to the complexities of the financial industry. As early employees at Blend, they spent years together focused on creating modern cloud infrastructure for banks. Now, with Vesta, they are transforming the mortgage industry by creating the most flexible, open, and automated origination experience, benefitting financial institutions and their customers.
And, we’re not alone.
We’ve raised $55M from top tier investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Conversion Capital, Zigg Capital, and Index Ventures.
We believe that our team is our greatest competitive advantage and take pride in having a team of exceptional humans. As a team, we value humility, empathy, self-awareness, and an orientation towards action. If this sounds like you and you’re excited by the idea of getting in at the ground level to be part of building the infrastructure that will power the future of the finance industry, we would love to hear from you!
Who you are
You are someone who people go to with the hardest technical problems. You love designing systems that scale and have a high bar for correctness, but understand the tradeoffs of balancing the business needs with perfect technical design. You know these types of systems cannot be built alone, and you want to build an organization around what you know are the proper, best practices for long-term scalability.
The ideal candidate will have:
- 5+ years working with distributed systems and relational databases at scale, with some portion directly optimizing for performance and scalability
- 3+ years managing and growing platform or infrastructure engineering teams
- Experience building B2B enterprise software
- Experience with many of the following technologies / platforms:
- C# / .NET platform / EF Core
- Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL — especially if the cluster was sharded
- Kafka
- OpenSearch / ElasticSearch
- Redis / Valkey
- AWS
About your role
As the backend platform leader, you’ll work closely with our CTO to define Vesta’s long term technical strategy for supporting current and future business needs with respect to scalability, reliability, and performance. You’ll also be responsible for maintaining a high engineering security posture in a highly regulated environment, as well as providing customer-facing capabilities in the Vesta Public API.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing, coaching, and growing a team of platform and infrastructure engineers
- Define and execute on a platform roadmap for maintaining the scalability and reliability needs of Vesta
- Define and evangelize best practices and technical standards to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of other product engineering teams
- Lead forecasting and budgeting for ensuring proper capacity planning to support the business’ needs
- Own the security and compliance posture for all platform and infrastructure services, including audits, risk assessments, and regulatory requirements (e.g. SOC 2)
- Manage the development and maintenance of the Vesta Public API
- Being an advocate for engineering excellence
Perks + Benefits
- Robust medical, vision, & dental coverage (~100% of employee premiums covered)
- FSA plan offering
- 401(K) plan offering
- Meaningful parental leave - 16 weeks fully paid for all new parents, birthing & non-birthing parents (applies to adoptions as well!)
- Remote-first culture with a physical hub in the bay area!
- Generous Work From Anywhere & Wellness Benefits
- Monthly cell & wifi stipend
- Monthly Doordash benefits
- Open & encouraged flexible time off
- Company offsites to get to know the team!
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $200,000 - $300,000/yr. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed.
At Vesta, we believe that the only way we can tackle the challenging problems in front of us is by having diverse perspectives and an environment that promotes inclusivity. We’re committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. As part of our onboarding process, we participate in the E-Verify program.
