Member of Technical Staff, Underwriting

Pylon
Palo Alto
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 130,000 - 220,000 annuallyFunction: Insurance & ActuarialSkills: ["Curiosity","Ownership","Taking initiative","Collaboration"]

Build underwriting systems that turn dense mortgage regulations into executable logic, using AI and custom DSLs to compile natural language rules into code. Pair with mortgage experts to capture nuance and exceptions, then design for precision with robust test coverage and careful attention to failure modes. Help automate complex, regulated processes on Pylon’s mortgage API platform, pushing into new territory where correctness is everything.

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3 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Underwriting

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Job Summary

Build underwriting systems that turn dense mortgage regulations into executable logic, using AI and custom DSLs to compile natural language rules into code. Pair with mortgage experts to capture nuance and exceptions, then design for precision with robust test coverage and careful attention to failure modes. Help automate complex, regulated processes on Pylon’s mortgage API platform, pushing into new territory where correctness is everything.
Location: Palo Alto
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Insurance & Actuarial
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Encode natural language rules into code using DSLs and AI to translate regulatory guidelines into executable logic.
  • •Work side-by-side with mortgage experts to interpret rules, including nuance, exceptions, and “it depends” cases.
  • •Build systems where correctness is essential, with robust test coverage and attention to failure modes.
  • •Apply AI in uncharted ways to define what’s possible for mortgage underwriting.
  • •Automate complex, regulated processes to make mortgages faster, cheaper, and more accessible.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 130,000 - 220,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Deep curiosity and the drive to solve hard problems.
  • •Own features end-to-end, from design through development, deployment, and maintenance.
  • •Encode natural language rules into executable logic using DSLs and techniques including AI.
  • •Design for correctness with robust test coverage and deep thinking about failure modes.
  • •Partner with mortgage experts to understand nuance, exceptions, and edge cases in underwriting.
Skills:CuriosityOwnershipTaking initiativeCollaboration
Tech Stack:TypeScriptCustom DSLsAI/MLAgentic infrastructureNestJSGraphQLSQLPostgreSQLTemporal.io

Company Brief

Pylon
Pylon offers a developer platform providing hosted infrastructure and APIs to build, deploy, and manage backend services and third‑party integrations, reducing engineering overhead for teams building modern web and mobile applications.
Industry: API Platforms
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