What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Backend Engineer position at Lev?
About Lev
Lev is transforming the $600B commercial real estate financing space. We have built a platform that uses AI to match brokers and borrowers with the best-fit lenders for their deals, and automate the most time-consuming parts of the financing process.
We are the first company to be tackling this problem at scale, which is why top-tier VCs and a who’s who of financial companies have invested more than $100M to help us grab this massive opportunity.
The Role
We are looking for a passionate problem solver to join our engineering team. In this role, you’ll get to wear many hats and be responsible for multiple projects including our proprietary digital financing platform. You’ll also work directly with our CTO by constantly discussing, architecting, developing new features/products, and making sure they are delivered on time while functioning properly.
Our current stack consists of: Python, Flask, GraphQL, and Postgres on the backend and React.js on the Front-end. We also have some services written in Python with FastAPI, such as our AI Service and our Email Service.
What You'll Do
Lev is transforming the $600B commercial real estate financing space. We have built a platform that uses AI to match brokers and borrowers with the best-fit lenders for their deals, and automate the most time-consuming parts of the financing process.
We are the first company to be tackling this problem at scale, which is why top-tier VCs and a who’s who of financial companies have invested more than $100M to help us grab this massive opportunity.
The Role
We are looking for a passionate problem solver to join our engineering team. In this role, you’ll get to wear many hats and be responsible for multiple projects including our proprietary digital financing platform. You’ll also work directly with our CTO by constantly discussing, architecting, developing new features/products, and making sure they are delivered on time while functioning properly.
Our current stack consists of: Python, Flask, GraphQL, and Postgres on the backend and React.js on the Front-end. We also have some services written in Python with FastAPI, such as our AI Service and our Email Service.
What You'll Do
- Write beautiful Python code focused on scalability, testability, and maintainability.
- Maintain and improve our core Flask API as well as our AI Service and other Microservices written in FastAPI.
- Architect, design, and implement a plethora of features/products we have in the pipeline.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, marketing, and engineering teams on building features and functionality.
- Perform code reviews with your teammates.
- Discuss, implement, and document subjects like Engineering processes, best practices, code quality, testing, continuous integration/deployment, and more.
- Foster a culture of excellence, velocity, and collaboration.
- Recruit, interview, and help improve our interview processes.
- Have a B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent with 5 years of experience.
- Have demonstrable experience building Python APIs in Flask or FastAPI..
- A desire to work in a fast-paced environment, hone your skills, and grow professionally.
- A willingness to take business ideas from the whiteboard to production deployment.
- Experience with LLM’s and building agentic AI applications.
- Experience with GraphQL.
- Experience with projects handling complex workflows.
- Worked in a high-growth company.
- This is an office-based role in NYC (4 days in office)
- Unlimited PTO
- Excellent health insurance for you and your dependents
- Generous stock incentive plan
- Daily DoorDash credit for lunch and plenty of in-office snacks
- Subsidized access to Gympass for health and wellness