Backend Engineer, API

Pylon

Backend Engineer focused on creating and maintaining a sophisticated mortgage API. Work with a dynamic team to innovate on mortgage processes and improve developer experience.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timePalo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $140,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define what a mortgage is in code
Build toward an event-driven API
Make the complex feel simple
Design for nonlinearity
Treat this as a product surface

Requirements

What you’ll need

Is deeply curious
Wants to own features from design to development to deployment to maintenance
Is willing to put the work in to solve the hardest of problems

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

event-driven APIcodingproduct design

Soft Skills

curiosityproblem-solvingownershipsimplicitycomplexity management