The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of AI capabilities for the digital mortgage platform, focusing on software solutions, compliance, and innovative features that enhance customer experience.
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 are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the Artificial Intelligence team at Better, a leading digital mortgage company. As a Senior AI Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in revolutionizing the mortgage and homeownership industry. Together with the stakeholders and the team, you will be leading, crafting, and shaping artificial intelligence capabilities in our wholly owned Tinman Loan Origination System. AI will power the latest features for our Homeowner customers, Loan Officers, Underwriters, and more. In this role, you will build core artificial intelligence capabilities, including virtual assistants in both voice and chat bot form and implementing the tools these agents interact with across our vast platform.
This position can be onsite at our office in NYC or be fully remote.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with the product team to innovate and iterate on existing services and develop new ones, with a focus on enhancing the digital mortgage origination process.
- Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable software solutions that power Better's digital mortgage origination platform, utilizing a variety of technologies and programming languages.
- Implement best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment to ensure the reliability and efficiency of the digital mortgage origination process.
- Work closely with the compliance team to ensure that all software solutions adhere to strict state and federal regulations governing the mortgage industry.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, provide technical insights, and drive the implementation of features and enhancements aimed at improving the digital mortgage origination experience for customers and internal users.
- Stay up to date with the latest advancements in software engineering, mortgage technology, and regulatory requirements, continuously seeking opportunities to enhance Better's digital mortgage origination platform.
Qualifications
- Master's degree in engineering preferred but not required
- 5+ years of full stack app development experience.
- Proficiency in NodeJS, Typescript, React, building REST APIs, and websockets is a must
- Comfortable with cloud based microservice environment
- Experience building agentic AI features including chatbots, voice agents using OpenAI SDK or equivalents
- Experience utilizing RAGs or MCP servers, and implementing tools for LLMs to utilize
- Excited to work in a fast paced, high growth startup environment.
- A commitment to writing understandable, maintainable, and well tested software.
- A desire to deliver and a strong sense of accountability for your work.
- Experience building and enhancing telephony/dialer systems, preferably using Twilio or similar platforms is a plus.
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
Openai
Python
React
Twilio
Typescript
Better New York, New York, USA Office
3 World Trade Center, New York, NY, United States, 10007
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