Senior Back End Software Engineer, Tomo
$160-190k
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Digital mortgage platform
Job no longer available
Digital mortgage platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$160-190k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To remove the hassle, stress, and frustration from buying a home.
Role
Who you are
- Has empathy for homebuyers and enjoys building technology that improves their journey from discovery to closing
- Brings their own unique background and experiences to the team, adding fresh ideas and perspectives
- Thrives in a startup environment with ambiguity and enjoys collaborating to figure out the best path forward
- Is a team-first engineer who jumps in to fight fires, provides constructive feedback, and always thinks about both the customer and Tomo as a whole
- Learns continuously and stays current with new trends and technologies, especially in backend engineering and AI
- Has experience leveraging LLMs in software engineering and is excited to push our capabilities further
- Works independently and makes sound decisions without requiring heavy oversight
- Enjoys working with a geographically distributed team (US)
- A history (5+ years) of experience delivering meaningful software projects to production—from conception through design, implementation, deployment, and iteration
- Experience with delivering high-quality customer experiences on large consumer-facing websites, including a deep understanding of back-end technology stacks and how to use them to produce performant, satisfying, well-crafted user experiences
- Understanding of modern software engineering practices, including logging, monitoring, continuous deployment, and automated testing
- Proficiency with Python and experience building backend systems using microservice architectures
- Solid understanding of AWS services, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Experience using AI-powered developer tools is a must. You’ve leveraged LLMs or similar technologies to enhance your coding efficiency, even if not yet working with fully agentic coding systems
- To be inquisitive, ready to engage in vibrant debate, make difficult decisions quickly, and learn continuously
Desirable
- Experience integrating or optimizing LLM-powered workflows
- Familiarity with financial services, fintech, real estate, or home lending technology systems
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks or API contract design
- Experience with observability tools like Datadog
What the job involves
- Reports To: Engineering Manager
- You’ll be joining our demand generation team whose mission is to build transparent, delightful experiences to demystify the mortgage process, empowering homebuyers to purchase with confidence
- Designing, building, and maintaining scalable Python microservices that power Tomo’s platform
- Owning backend architecture decisions and contributing to API design and integration patterns across services
- Deploying, monitoring, and supporting systems in production as part of an on-call rotation
- Driving healthy engineering practices, including code review, iterative delivery, automated testing, and continuous deployment
- Collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver seamless customer experiences
- Leveraging AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps tooling to ensure reliability and performance
- Support deployed systems in production as part of an on-call rotation
Our take
Tomo is a fintech startup looking to revolutionize the real estate industry, which has been lagging behind other crucial modern sectors in terms of leveraging the potential of new technological developments. Tomo’s ambition is strong, and whilst it's keeping its horizons broad, the company is starting with a mortgage and transaction platform aimed at making the transaction process smoother for both estate agents and consumers.
The founding members of Tomo are both former executives at the real estate database giant Zillow, and their impressive seed funding includes backing from Trulia co-founder Pete Flint and Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff. This level of confidence and experience puts the company in good stead within the increasingly competitive real estate tech industry. What's more, Tomo is smart to place equal emphasis on the buyer as well as the seller - this distinguishes its platform from more seller-centric offerings like Zillow Offer and OpenDoor.
With impressive seed funding and investor confidence, coupled with experienced leadership and a potentially massive market, Tomo is well-positioned to deliver on its ambitious promise.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2025
$20m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$40m
SERIES A
Total funding: $170m
Company benefits
- We strive to anticipate your needs in order for you to be a healthy, motivated, and happy team member. We provide a variety of competitive benefits including (but not limited to):
- Competitive compensation packages that include equity for all
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for you and your dependents with some plans 100% covered
- Work-life balance and a generous paid time off policy
- In order to support teammates who become parents, Tomo provides paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
Company HQ
South End, Stamford, CT
Leadership
Greg Schwartz
(CEO)They studied at Hamilton College before working at DoubleClick, Yahoo!, and CNN Money for a combined 8 years. They spent 13 years at Zillow Group, leaving their President role in January 2020 to co-found Tomo that October.
Carey Armstrong
(COO)After a degree in English at Harvard, they worked as a Forrester Senior Industry Analyst for half a decade before taking an MBA and spending 3 years at BCG. They then worked for Zillow Group from 2013 to 2020, when they founded Tomo with Greg.
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