Senior Software Engineer

Come build at the intersection of AI and fintech. At Ocrolus, we're on a mission to help lenders automate workflows with confidence-streamlining how financial institutions evaluate borrowers and enabling faster, more accurate lending decisions.


Our AI-powered data and analytics platform is trusted at scale, processing nearly one million credit applications every month across small business, mortgage, and consumer lending. By integrating state-of-the-art open- and closed-source AI models with our human-in-the-loop verification engine, Ocrolus captures data from financial documents with over 99% accuracy. Thanks to our advanced fraud detection and comprehensive cash flow and income analytics, our customers achieve greater efficiency in risk management, and provide expanded access to credit-ultimately creating a more inclusive financial system.


Trusted by more than 400 customers-including industry leaders like Better Mortgage, Brex, Enova, Nova Credit, PayPal, Plaid, SoFi, and Square-Ocrolus stands at the forefront of AI innovation in fintech. Join us, and help redefine how the world's most innovative lenders do business.


The Mortgage Engineering team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineer with a strong focus on microservices architecture to join our team.


We are looking for an exceptionally skilled Senior Software Enginee r with a solid technical background and leadership skills, able to work in a fast-paced environment, and help architect and build the next generation of our backend applications.



What you'll do:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining Microservices using Python.
• Designing and developing cloud based software products conforming to industry best practices.
• Build systems, services, and tools to handle new Ocrolus products and business requirements that securely scale over millions of transactions.
• Build and scale our fast-growing online services and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with other teams on security, reliability, and automation.
• Supporting the testing process, troubleshooting issues and resolving them.

What you'll bring:

• Master's degree in Computer Science as a mandatory qualification
• 5+ years engineering experience
• Expert in Python and experience in building complex systems and applications in a large fintech
• Experience in JVM tuning for performance improvements for the mainframe product.
• Solid database skills (Postgres, MySQL etc) and data modeling experience.
• Experience with Web Frameworks like Flask, and related ecosystems
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Can contribute best-practices and architectural leadership to our backend applications and help pick the architecture, frameworks and tooling for our next generation platform.
• Experience with agile methodologies and automated testing.
• Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, continuous integration, Amazon Web Services, and deployment.
• Applicant must be based in NY/NJ/CT

Note: This is a remote role; however, candidates must be based in New York City.


The full-time salary range for this role is around $180,000 + equity + benefits. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.


Disclosure as required by N.Y.C. Admin. Code §§ 8-102 and 8-107(32) of the full time salary compensation range for this role when being hired into our offices in New York City.



Life at Ocrolus


We're a team of builders, thinkers, and problem solvers who care deeply about our mission - and each other. As a fast-growing, remote-first company, we offer an environment where you can grow your skills, take ownership of your work, and make a meaningful impact.



Our culture is grounded in four core values: Empathy - Understand and serve with compassion

Curiosity - Explore new ideas and question the status quo Humility - Listen, be grounded, and remain open-minded

Ownership - Love what you do, work hard, and deliver excellence


We believe diverse perspectives drive better outcomes. That's why we're committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone has a seat at the table, regardless of race, gender, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, or any other protected characteristic.


We look forward to building the future of lending together.