Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

About Mesa

Mesa is on a mission to make homeownership more affordable and rewarding. They are building the homeowner membership category by rewarding consumers on all aspects of their homeownership spend. They’ve launched the Mesa Homeowners Card that allows homeowners to earn points on mortgage payments, home spends and everyday purchases. Mesa is led by a world-class team of repeat founders and fintech operators from Uber, Cash App, Square, Robinhood, BILT, and Spotify and backed by some of the best investors in the world. 

Read more about us: Techcrunch Article

About the role

We are looking for a senior software engineer to continue to build and drive innovation in our Card and Mortgage products.You will be part of a tight knit team of engineers who has consistently delivered in weeks or months, what takes others months or years. You will help design and architect systems to scale multiple orders of magnitude beyond our current scale, work closely with internal stakeholders to innovate on our mortgage product through product experience and operational efficiencies. As part of the early engineering team, you will also help establish engineering best practices and help set the organizational practices to scale beyond a single team. 

Mesa is not for everyone. We operate at an intensity and pace that consistently delivers beyond our size. One of our core values of Outlier Effort reflects our belief that outlier results require outlier effort. This environment naturally attracts the ambitious, passionate, and highly self-motivated. You'll work alongside the best people of your career.

Read about our engineering cultural values!

You will be successful at Mesa if:

• You have a strong ownership mindset. You take extreme ownership of outcomes, proactively addressing problems. No task is beneath you - you'll dive into unfamiliar domains and fix what needs fixing, regardless of whether it's in your job description.
• You thrive in ambiguity. We are early at Mesa and you will have tremendous responsibility in helping define our products. You are able to find the right balance between scope, speed and quality. You understand the goals of the business and understand how they fit into product and engineering requirements.
• You have a growth mindset and want to be stretched beyond what you thought you were capable of. You will take on responsibilities well beyond what you are expecting from any BigTechCo. You will do the best work of your life here at Mesa.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building consumer applications 
• Strong proficiency with Typescript is a must
• Working with NodeJS, or similar framework
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, handle ambiguity, and have strong product ownership mindset
• Love dogs 🐶

Nice to Haves:

• Experience in the payments or mortgage industry
• Experience in Expo, NestJS

Our Tech Stack

• Typescript
• NestJS
• Expo (React Native, Web)
• Terraform
• Postgres
• Prisma & Drizzle
• AWS
• Sentry

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 100% covered Health, Vision Dental & Carrot Fertility
• Daily in office lunches
• 401(k) plan
• Fully remote
• Regular team and company wide offsites
• Unlimited vacation policy

Location: This is a hybrid role, requiring four days per week in one of our offices in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; or Austin, TX

To Apply: Principals only. But seriously, no recruiters.

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