Senior Software Engineer - Dallas, TX

Better is the first AI-native mortgage and home equity finance company, revolutionizing one of the largest financial markets in the world.
We make home finance radically more transparent; using AI and proprietary technology to eliminate friction from the mortgage process through our industry-leading AI platform, Tinman®, and the first voice-based AI mortgage assistant, Betsy™. Our mission is simple: make homeownership cheaper, faster and more accessible by transforming how people buy and finance homes.
The facts that speak for themselves:

• We’ve funded over $110 billion in loans (more than any other fintech in the US!)
• Raised over $1.2 billion in equity capital to modernize the $15 trillion mortgage industry
• Better’s propriety AI platform makes us an award-winning lender:

• Fintech Breakthrough Award 2025: Best Lending Innovation
• Yahoo! Finance (Jan 2025): Best Mortgage Lender for First-Time Homebuyers – Best for quick approval
• Yahoo! Finance (2025): Best Online Mortgage Lender
• Money Magazine (2025): Best for fast closing
• Forbes (2023): Best Online Mortgage Lender

We’re building the future of home finance - and we’re looking for smart, driven, ambitious innovators who are ready to tackle the most impactful work of their careers.
Why Better. Why Now.
Better is rebuilding home finance as an AI-native platform—turning a process that once took weeks into something that can happen in seconds.
With over $110B in loans funded and $1.2B+ raised, we operate at real scale while rethinking how homeownership works from the ground up.
The category hasn’t caught up yet. That’s the opportunity.
The Opportunity
We’re building our first
engineering team in the Dallas/Irving area
and are looking for a
Senior Software Engineer
who’s ready to make an immediate impact. This is a rare opportunity to be a
founding employee
in a new office and help shape the future of the revolutionary platform that powers the mortgage industry.
You’ll work directly with our
mortgage partners
every day—building tools, APIs, and user experiences that make the complex simple and the expensive efficient. You’ll collaborate with
product, design, and operations
teams to streamline workflows, reduce cost per loan, and make the homeownership journey more transparent and accessible.
If you want to see the impact of your work up close—talking with users, shipping code, and shaping how America’s leading mortgage platform operates—this is the place.
How You'll Make An Impact

• Build and enhance Tinman, the AI platform that powers Better’s SaaS and mortgage operations.
• Partner directly with business stakeholders and loan operations teams to understand friction points and design smarter, simpler workflows.
• Design and implement robust, scalable APIs and workflows that integrate with mortgage, partner, and compliance systems.
• Collaborate with engineers across Better to evolve our SaaS offerings and support tenanted partner integrations.
• Contribute to a culture of learning, excellence, and experimentation—helping establish our Dallas team’s engineering identity from the ground up.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
• 4-6 years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, React, or similar modern frameworks.
• Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, and scalable architectures.
• Comfortable working directly with business users and operations teams to identify problems and design pragmatic solutions.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you’re empowered to make decisions and deliver impact quickly.
• Excited by the challenge of building a new engineering culture and office presence from the ground up.
• Experience in fintech, proptech, or other regulated data environments nice to have.
• Familiarity with mortgage technology or B2B2C SaaS platforms nice to have.
• Background in systems integration, workflow automation, or data processing pipelines nice to have.
• A passion for simplifying complex business processes and making technology more human-friendly nice to have.

Compensation Range: $130K - $150K