Staff Software Engineer

Guild Mortgage Company, closing loans and opening doors since 1960. As a mortgage banking firm we are dedicated to serving the home owner/buyer. Our goal is to provide affordable home financing for our customers, utilizing the best terms available while providing a level of professionalism and service unsurpassed in the lending industry.

Position Summary

The Staff Engineer is a senior individual contributor within Guild’s IT Factory, the team that builds shared engineering tools, software components, and platform capabilities used by application delivery teams. The role designs, builds, and evolves these capabilities to reduce repeated implementation effort, improve developer experience, and strengthen software quality, security, reliability, and maintainability across multiple teams and initiatives.

Working primarily within the Microsoft .NET and Azure ecosystem, the Staff Engineer turns architectural direction and recurring delivery needs into production-ready libraries, services, frameworks, automation, and supported implementation patterns. The role remains actively engaged in coding, testing, technical investigation, and complex implementation, with responsibility for the engineering quality, maintenance, and technical evolution of assigned shared capabilities.

The Staff Engineer partners with architects, engineering leads, developer enablement specialists, application teams, QA, DevOps, SRE, Security, IAM, and Networking. Success is demonstrated through capabilities that teams can adopt and sustain, reduced delivery friction, and lasting improvements in engineering effectiveness.

Compensation

This role is an exempt position with a targeted salary range of $144,001 to $210,601.

Compensation at Guild is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to local and federal minimum wage requirements, education, level of experience, and applicant’s geographical location.

Essential Functions

• Reusable software and platform engineering

• Design, implement, test, and maintain reusable software libraries, services, developer tools, frameworks, and automation that address recurring needs across delivery teams.
• Build and evolve Golden Paths: supported starter kits, reference implementations, and reusable delivery patterns that help teams develop, test, deploy, and support software consistently.
• Apply hands-on full-stack engineering across application services, APIs, integrations, data access, developer interfaces, cloud workload configuration, deployment automation, and observability as needed for assigned capabilities.
• Independently frame and resolve systemic engineering problems within agreed platform priorities. Align affected teams on technical approaches and carry solutions through implementation, adoption, and measured improvement.
• Evaluate when to reuse, extend, integrate, or build a capability, balancing adoption needs, implementation effort, operating cost, and long-term maintenance. Avoid abstractions whose complexity exceeds their demonstrated value.

• Engineering Quality and Capability Lifecycle

• Develop and lead technical designs for assigned shared capabilities, contributing implementation evidence and recommendations to platform architectural direction.
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