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Vesta

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $30M Series A - Vesta on 2022-01

Fintech • SaaS • B2B

Vesta is an AI-native loan origination system (LOS) that combines human expertise with AI agents to automate and accelerate mortgage origination workflows. Their platform uses AI agents to perform routine actions, quality checks, task routing, and integrations with loan ecosystem providers (100+ integrations including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), while letting human teams handle exceptions and change rules. Vesta emphasizes productivity gains for lenders, citing customer results (e. g. , Pennymac) and offers enterprise integrations and services from its San Francisco base.

📋 Description

• You’ll work alongside full-stack engineers, bringing deep backend and systems expertise to ensure the product functionality we build is scalable and reliable. • You will be partnering closely with product and engineering teammates to design, build, and operate backend systems that directly support customer-facing features as they grow in complexity and usage. • Working at an early-stage startup means there is a strong sense of ownership across the team. • While we support flexible schedules and trust people to manage their time, there will be moments when mission-critical work requires extra effort outside of typical working hours. • We’re looking for teammates who are comfortable with that reality and who care deeply about the success of the product and the team. • You’ll be expected to take ownership of the backend and systems aspects of product features from early design through production and scale to ensure the product continues to perform reliably as the business grows.

🎯 Requirements

• Comfortable working in an early-stage startup environment where mission-critical work may occasionally require effort outside typical working hours. • Experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems that support real product functionality at meaningful scale • Strong backend engineering focus; full-stack experience is welcome, but deep systems and backend expertise is essential • Hands-on experience working with multi-service architectures in a production environment • Ownership of performance, reliability, and scalability work tied directly to product features (e.g., query optimization, indexing, identifying and resolving system bottlenecks) • Fluency in using modern AI tooling as part of your development workflow • Proficiency in at least one strongly typed backend language (C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, or similar) • Hands-on experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including schema design and performance tuning • Familiarity with cloud-based production environments (AWS preferred), and experience with technologies such as Kafka, Redis, or similar infrastructure components • Strong systems design instincts, with the ability to reason about scalability, performance, and reliability tradeoffs as product features evolve • Comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy, owning backend responsibilities end-to-end while collaborating closely with full-stack engineers • Strong bias toward building practical, iterative solutions to real business problems, with minimal process overhead or unnecessary meetings • Willingness to travel a few times per year for team offsites within the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Robust medical, vision, & dental coverage (~100% of employee premiums covered) • FSA plan offering • 401(K) plan offering • Meaningful parental leave - 16 weeks fully paid for all new parents, birthing & non-birthing parents (applies to adoptions as well!) • Remote-first culture with a physical hub in the bay area! • Generous Work From Anywhere & Wellness Benefits • Monthly cell & wifi stipend • Monthly Doordash benefits • Open & encouraged flexible time off • Company offsites to get to know the team!