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Software Engineer(s) - New Grad (Fall 2025 Graduation)

Join to apply for the Software Engineer(s) - New Grad (Fall 2025 Graduation) role at Pylon

Software Engineer(s) - New Grad (Fall 2025 Graduation)

Join to apply for the Software Engineer(s) - New Grad (Fall 2025 Graduation) role at Pylon

At Pylon, were a small team building a very ambitious product in the mortgage space.

At this early stage, were looking for engineers who can see the opportunity of what were building towards and want to have a hand in building it.

We're in search of people who find difficult problems invigorating and who fit well into a high-performing team built on mutual respect and reliance. If you like pushing yourself to learn a massive amount while shipping code that has a huge impact on the end product, Pylon Engineering could be a great place for you.

About You

You:

• Have strong opinions that youre willing to defend. We have a culture of vigorous discussion and debate on technical decisions. Well push you to defend your choices, and we want you to push back.
• Don't settle. Challenge yourself to frequently and consistently deliver exceptional code. If something could be better, take the initiative to improve it.
• Have great ideas, and lots of them. You should see opportunities all around you to make the code, product and infrastructure better. Well give you an environment where you can act on those ideas.
• Are self-motivated. You can take a goal and drive towards it without needing extensive hand-holding. The team is supportive and loves to share knowledge and advice, but theres no time for micromanaging your work.
• Are comfortable with ambiguity. There's a million ways to do things; you should feel at ease making a decision under uncertainty while balancing competing constraints.
• Are confident you can learn quickly. Mortgage is complex, our platform is complex, good software engineering is complex. Youve got to have an attitude that you can absorb it, get on top of it, and build something better than what came before.
• Love strong typing. We're a team full of people who love Haskell and Rust (and Idris!) and take pride in pushing Typescript to its limits.

About The Team

What were not:

• Building a CRUD app:
• Were building a platform thats only possible due to deep technology investments and thinking hard from first principles. Cargo-culting whats come before wont be sufficient.
• If youre looking to do mostly plumbing / lego piece assembling, Pylon may be very frustrating for you
• A ChatGPT wrapper:
• Mortgage is a sprawling mess of problems, and there isn't one tool that solves every one of them. We use LLMs, but we've reached for tools in multiple disciplines like mixed-integer linear optimization and programming language research.
• An easy job:
• Were building a lot of things from the ground up for the first time. Working at Pylon is like a research project where you have to ship to intelligent, opinionated customers regularly.
• Its basically guaranteed youll be handed a task that is too difficult for you to do. You might fail sometimes. You might have no idea where to start. Our team leans heavily on each other, but theres no getting around the difficulties.
  

What we are:

• A small team:
• We dont have an army of engineers. If you find something is broken, you are probably the best one to fix it
• All the code we write has to punch above its weight in maintainability and toil reduction
• If you have a good idea, you have much more ability to put it into action than at a large company
• We need generalists: specialization is for big companies that already have everything figured out. If youre smart, flexible and like getting into everything, we want you.
• Working in a regulated space:
• Mortgage is regulated both federally and at the state level.
• We move fast, but breaking things isnt an option.
  

About The Job

Basics

• Job title: Software Engineer - New Grad
• Stock options: own a piece of the company and we all win together
• Health insurance, dental, etc.

Our technology stack:

We dont require that youve worked with any of these technologies before, this is just our stack for your information:

• Typescript front and backend
• Web components
• GraphQL
• PostgreSQL
• NestJS web framework
• Nx build system
• Sagittarius
• AWS stack using CDK for declarative infrastructure
• We currently use ECS rather than Kubernetes. If you have questions about this choice and want to know more, please apply!
• General philosophy: monolith until it hurts. If we can do something without introducing a new service, we will

About Pylon

The $13 trillion mortgage industry at the core of the American economy runs on broken assembly lines with human-powered workflows, stitched-together software, and a series of capital markets intermediates. The costs to originate are at an all time high despite foundational shifts in technology.

Pylon is rewiring mortgages from the ground up. We are building the only API-first, programmatic infrastructure that fully automates credit, compliance, capital, and operations. For the first time, originators can build and scale mortgage businesses entirely through software, not people. Our team comes from Stripe, Better, and Affirm, and we are backed by Conversion Capital, QED, Citi, Fifth Wall, Peter Thiel, and the founders of Ramp, Mercury, Blend, and others.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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