Software Engineer
US$184,000 – US$230,500 / yr base salary
Posted 11 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Staff Software Engineer”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
| Base salary | US$184,000 – US$230,500 / yr |
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🏡 About Us
At eLEND, we are committed to delivering an exceptional mortgage experience through innovation, technology, operational excellence, and client-focused partnership. Our APEX organization supports the technology foundations that power the lending experience, enabling our teams to deliver reliable, secure, scalable, and continuously improving solutions.
The Staff Software Engineer, AI Enablement is a senior, hands-on individual contributor providing shared technical leadership across the Alpha and Delta teams. This role operates at the intersection of software engineering, architecture, modernization, AI enablement, and customer experience.
✨ Why This Role Matters
As a Lead Software Engineer, AI Enablement, you will help accelerate new product development while strengthening and modernizing the platforms that support our business. You will use your technical expertise, architecture, hands-on engineering capabilities, and practical application of AI to improve development velocity, software quality, platform reliability, and customer experiences.
This is a senior individual contributor role, not a people-management position. You will lead through technical expertise, architecture, hands-on delivery, mentoring, technical judgment, reusable engineering solutions, and influence across teams.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
Cross-Team Engineering Leadership
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across the Alpha and Delta teams, supporting new product development, platform modernization, production support, technical debt reduction, and system reliability.
- Design, build, test, deploy, and troubleshoot production software across frontend, backend, integrations, databases, and cloud components.
- Help define application architecture, integration patterns, coding standards, development practices, and reusable engineering approaches.
- Build reusable services, APIs, libraries, development templates, components, and automation that can be leveraged across teams.
- Evaluate technical solutions and communicate tradeoffs related to speed, scalability, security, cost, maintainability, and customer impact.
- Mentor engineers, facilitate technical discussions, and elevate engineering standards without direct people-management responsibility.
Alpha Product Delivery
- Help design and deliver new products, features, integrations, and digital customer experiences.
- Establish technical patterns that enable teams to release smaller increments more frequently and safely.