The Senior Software Engineer will build and enhance the AI platform for mortgage operations, design robust APIs, and collaborate with various teams to streamline workflows and reduce costs.
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.
A Better Opportunity
We’re building our first engineering team in the Irvine area and are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s ready to make an immediate impact. This is a rare opportunity to be a founding employee in a new office and help shape the future of the revolutionary platform that powers the mortgage industry.
You’ll work directly with our mortgage partners every day—building tools, APIs, and user experiences that make the complex simple and the expensive efficient. You’ll collaborate with product, design, and operations teams to streamline workflows, reduce cost per loan, and make the homeownership journey more transparent and accessible.
If you want to see the impact of your work up close—talking with users, shipping code, and shaping how America’s leading mortgage platform operates—this is the place.
Responsibilities
- Build and enhance Tinman, the AI platform that powers Better’s SaaS and mortgage operations.
- Partner directly with business stakeholders and loan operations teams to understand friction points and design smarter, simpler workflows.
- Design and implement robust, scalable APIs and workflows that integrate with mortgage, partner, and compliance systems.
- Collaborate with engineers across Better to evolve our SaaS offerings and support tenanted partner integrations.
- Contribute to a culture of learning, excellence, and experimentation—helping establish our Dallas team’s engineering identity from the ground up.
Qualifications
- 4-6 years of professional experience in software engineering.
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, React, or similar modern frameworks.
- Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, and scalable architectures.
- Comfortable working directly with business users and operations teams to identify problems and design pragmatic solutions.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you’re empowered to make decisions and deliver impact quickly.
- Excited by the challenge of building a new engineering culture and office presence from the ground up.
- Experience in fintech, proptech, or other regulated data environments.
- Familiarity with mortgage technology or B2B2C SaaS platforms.
- Background in systems integration, workflow automation, or data processing pipelines.
- A passion for simplifying complex business processes and making technology more human-friendly.
Nice to Have
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) and commuter benefits both 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.
Top Skills
APIs
Node.js
React
Typescript
Better Irvine, California, USA Office
5 Park Plaza , Irvine, CA, United States, 92614
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