IAM Engineer, Valon Mortgage
Transforming $25B+ mortgage servicing market with software
Open for applications
Transforming $25B+ mortgage servicing market with software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To champion homeowners on their financial journey, as the partner they trust with their home and future.
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
Valon is attempting to bring smoother, clearer customer service to the often unsophisticated industry of mortgage services. Its cloud-native mobile platform allows borrowers to make payments and manage escrow accounts while avoiding time-consuming call centers, inaccurate information and poorly designed websites. In turn, lenders can use the platform to request API feeds to gather information on customer performance.
The company is aiming to disrupt and bring down the costs in a market that it sees as heavily monopolized, and which is largely devoid of customer-oriented innovation. Currently, mortgage servicing giant Black Knight controls over half of all residential loans in the US, the result of which has seen a 250% increase in servicing costs in the last decade.
Valon's growth so far has been remarkable. The company went from zero contracts in 2019 to $65 billion in mortgages in 2024, with a 400% year-on-year growth. Its remarkable growth attracted over $169 million in funding in 2024. On top of this boost, it has further diversified its capabilities to include servicing government-sponsored home loans from the Federal National Mortgage Association.
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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
- Fully Covered Healthcare Premiums on Zero Deductible Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance Plans
- Flexible Sick Days
- Equity Packages
- Generous Vacation Policy + Multiple Company Holidays
- Provided Laptop, Custom Acessories, and Ergonomic Equipment
- Commuter Benefits
- Paid Parental Leave
- Unlimited Snacks and Drinks
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Andrew Wang
(CEO & Co-Founder)Studied Computer Science at Harvard. Interned as a Software Engineer at The White House, and Google. Was an Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Spent 4 years as a Principal to Soros Fund Management.
Linda Du
(COO)Studied Computer Science and Statistics at Harvard. Worked at Samlyn Capital and Two Sigma prior to joining Valon.
Jake Mintz
(CPO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University. Co-founded Bump Technologies which was acquired by Google.
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