IAM Engineer, Valon Mortgage
AI-native operating system for mortgage servicing
Job no longer available
AI-native operating system for mortgage servicing
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power the future of homeownership with modern servicing technology.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on identity, authentication, or access management systems
- Proven experience designing and scaling systems like SSO, OAuth2, SAML, RBAC/ABAC, or multi-tenant IAM platforms
- Strong systems design skills with an understanding of how to build secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure
- Experience working in or building for regulated environments (e.g., finance, healthcare, government)
- A product mindset—you care about APIs, UX, and making complex systems usable and intuitive
- Experience working in SaaS environments, particularly those with multi-tenant architectures
- Bonus: prior work in high-scale or compliance-heavy companies
- Bonus: demonstrated technical leadership or mentoring experience, even in informal roles
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior or Staff Engineer to build and own the authentication and user management systems that will power the next phase of our platform
- This is a foundational, multi-year initiative—critical to unlocking our ability to support enterprise SaaS clients with scale, compliance, and resilience
- This role is more than just security engineering: it’s about building identity as a product—from security tenancy controls to end user role management to developer-facing APIs and enterprise SSO
- You’ll be the technical owner of our identity stack and work closely with product, security, and platform teams to design infrastructure that’s reliable, auditable, and intuitive for both end users and developers
- You’ll think in systems and tradeoffs, design for fault tolerance and auditability, and bring a product mindset to everything from login flows to permissioning APIs. Some example problems on the roadmap:
- Architect a multi-tenant identity platform supporting fine-grained roles and access control
- Design and implement SSO integration and federation features for enterprise clients
- Build self-serve user and permission management APIs with strong guarantees
- Ensure auditability and compliance with zero-downtime authentication systems
- This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives on complexity and is excited to build critical systems that may be invisible when working—but foundational when scaling
- Design and build core identity systems: authentication, authorization, user provisioning, and access control
- Partner with product to define and implement user management features
- Collaborate with security and compliance teams to meet enterprise client requirements
- Develop scalable, auditable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure for regulated environments
- Own technical strategy and execution for identity and authentication—balancing long-term vision with near-term needs
- Establish and evolve IAM as a durable, user-facing capability, not just backend infrastructure
- Advocate for best practices in security, performance, and developer experience across the identity surface
Our take
The mortgage servicing market is huge but surprisingly outdated. In the US alone, it covers roughly $13T in mortgages, yet many servicers still use legacy systems and manual processes to manage payments, compliance and customer support. Because mortgage servicing involves complex regulations and many exceptions, these older systems can be inefficient and costly to run, creating a strong opportunity for modern technology to improve how the industry operates.
Valon is trying to modernize this space with ValonOS, an AI-native operating system built specifically for mortgage servicing. The platform doesn't just store loan data, it also captures the rules and workflows behind servicing decisions. This allows companies to automate routine processes, improve visibility into operations, and manage compliance more easily. To prove the system works, Valon has also built and run its own large mortgage servicing business on the platform.
The company has gained strong backing from major industry players too. Investor Rithm Capital Corp. plans to roll out Valon's technology to over 4M homeowners through Newrez, one of the largest US mortgage servicers. If this rollout succeed, it could demonstrate that modern, AI-driven systems can operate at industry scale and potentially reshape mortgage servicing.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2024
$100m
SERIES C
Jul 2024
$69.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $348.8m
Company benefits
- Compensation: You’ll receive a highly competitive compensation package with room to grow.
- Time Away: We offer a generous PTO program, sick time, and company holidays.
- Flexible Work: Remote, hybrid, or in-office. We’ve got it all and aim for you to work where it works. Where possible, we offer geographic flexibility.
- Health Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance are all company-sponsored to keep you healthy and strong.
- Parental Leave: Birthing and non-birthing parents receive 12 weeks of fully paid time to welcome a new child.
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Andrew Wang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Andrew studied Computer Science at Harvard before interning as a Software Engineer at The White House and Google. He was also an Analyst at Goldman Sachs and spent 4 years as a Principal to Soros Fund Management.
Linda Du
(COO)Linda studied Computer Science and Statistics at Harvard. She then worked at Samlyn Capital and Two Sigma prior to co-founding Valon in 2020.
Jake Mintz
(CPO)Prior to joining Valon in 2024, Jake was the Head of Product, Consumer at Stipe. He also spent 7 years at Google as a Product Lead, Camera (Android/Google Pixel, Head of Product, VR/AR (Media, Communications) and as the Head of Product, Business Management.
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