Posted at: 30 June

Software Engineer

Company

Better

Better is a fintech company specializing in digital mortgage solutions, headquartered in the US, focused on making home finance faster and more accessible for individual homebuyers.

Job Type

Full-time

Allowed Applicant Locations

United Arab Emirates, Worldwide

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Job Description

Software Engineer

Remote
Engineering – Software Development /
Regular /
Remote
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Better is reimagining home finance and making it faster, cheaper, and easier for everyone to become a homeowner. We leverage creative technology and innovation to make the home buying journey more approachable and understandable and home finance more affordable and accessible. Here are some interesting facts to help you get to know Better:

- We’ve funded over $100 billion in loans for our customers, more than any other fintech
- Yahoo! Finance - Best Mortgage Lender for First Time Homebuyers of January 2025: Best lender for quick approval
- Yahoo! Finance - Best Mortgage Lenders of 2025: Best online mortgage lender 
- Fintech Breakthrough Award: Best Lending Innovation Award 
- Money Magazine - 8 Best Mortgage Lenders of 2025: Best for fast closing
- We are Forbes’ Best Online Mortgage Lender for 2023
- We have raised over $1.2 billion in equity capital to transform the mortgage industry, the largest financial asset class in the world

We are a place where smart, hungry, ambitious people who want to recognize their full potential thrive. 

We are looking for a talented and driven Full Stack Software Engineer to join our engineering team. You will play a key role in building and maintaining our internal, proprietary LOS platform. This position involves close collaboration with product managers, compliance, closing, and post-closing teams to design features and automation that simplify and scale our operations. 

This is a high-impact role in a fast-paced environment where your work will directly influence the growth and success of the company.

Responsibilities

    • Maintain and iterate our proprietary Loan Origination Systemwith a focus on enhancing the digital mortgage origination process 
    • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify pain points and build automation tools and workflows 
    • Design and develop scalable, maintainable software utilizing a variety of technologies and programming languages 
    • Build and consume RESTful APIs to integrate internal systems and third-party services 
    • Work closely with product and compliance teams to gather requirements, provide technical insights, ensure technical solutions meet regulatory requirements and improve the digital mortgage origination experience 
    • Proactively identify and drive changes as needed for assigned codebase, an/or product areas 
    • Deploy and manage services on AWS, ensuring high reliability and performance 
    • Write clean, testable code and participate in peer code reviews 

Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field 
    • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience 
    • Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Python, and ReactJS 
    • Solid experience building and consuming RESTful APIs 
    • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, especially AWS 
    • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset 
    • Action-oriented and adaptable, with the ability to thrive in a fast-moving, startup environment
Company Benefits 

We are thrilled to offer all our full-time employees the following benefit offerings:

- Benefits eligibility effective DAY ONE 
- *$0 medical plan premium offering coverage nationwide paired with our Health Savings Account that includes an employer contribution (*Additional Medical, dental, vision plan options also all with nationwide coverage)
- Flexible PTO
- Immediate virtual mental health support by licensed therapists for our employees and their eligible dependents age 6 and up! First few visits at no cost to you!
- Personalized care for every fertility and family care journey for our employees and their partner!  
- Dependent care benefits (i.e. childcare and/or elder care costs) include a company match
- Discount programs and perks including pet Insurance!

The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided.

Disclaimer  

Better Home & Finance Holding Company is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment for our employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status, or any other reason protected by law.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Better will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
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