Senior Software Engineer, Betterment
$170-195k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Automated investing & financial planning
Open for applications
Automated investing & financial planning
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$170-195k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise with React web development and familiarity with JavaScript open source ecosystem
- Experience building and consuming GraphQL APIs (experience with Apollo Client a plus)
- Experience with modern approaches for testing web applications, including end-to-end browser testing and accessibility validation (experience with Playwright and Chromatic a plus)
- Experience with design systems, including approaches for CSS shared across an organization
- Experience with JavaScript build tooling (e.g. Vite) and monorepo tooling (e.g. pnpm, Lerna, Nx)
- Experience participating in projects that impact technologies and development workflows used by multiple teams
- Expertise in at least one server-side language (Ruby, Java, C#, C++, Python, etc.) Ruby on Rails experience a plus
- Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, and performance considerations in web apps
- Ability to lead projects, drive adoption of platform improvements, and make pragmatic tradeoffs while maintaining quality
- Collaborative mindset and excitement to partner with teammates across engineering, design, and product
- Passion for software engineering, developer experience, and creating what doesn’t yet exist
- Appreciation of agility and pragmatism in software development
- The ability to thrive in a startup-like environment, balancing autonomy with collaboration
What the job involves
- As a Sr. Engineer on the Frontend Platform team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the shared mobile infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling that power Betterment’s React web applications
- You’ll play a key role in shaping the developer experience for engineers across the company, ensuring that teams can deliver features quickly, safely, and sustainably
- Platform engineering at Betterment enables engineers across the organization to ship great code with confidence. Our team works closely with product engineers to deliver cross-cutting capabilities, infrastructure, and frameworks that unlock faster delivery while maintaining quality
- We tackle the most interesting technical challenges of scale, architecture, and developer experience to create an app platform that delights both our customers and our engineers
- Build and maintain the shared JavaScript/React frameworks, libraries, and developer tooling that product teams use to deliver customer-facing features to our web apps
- Partner with engineers across product squads to improve reliability, performance, and security of our web apps
- Lead medium-to-large scale platform initiatives, balancing tradeoffs to ship high-quality solutions continuously and iteratively
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and fellow engineers to ensure platform capabilities align with business and customer needs
- Mentor junior engineers, contribute to an environment of open communication, and foster a culture of teaching and learning
- Identify and address strategic technical challenges that have long-term impact across Betterment’s engineering organization
- Contribute to an engineering culture that values clean code, rigorous testing, pragmatic programming, and continuous improvement
Application process
- We’ll take a few weeks to review all applications. If we’d like to spend more time with you, we’ll reach out to arrange next steps, which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues
- In the interview process, we’ll look to learn more about your skills, experiences, capabilities, and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment
- Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments, as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions
- On average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision
- Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process
Our take
Betterment is an app-based investment platform that provides personal finance data and guidance to retail users through a range of real-world data and AI analytics to deliver investment advice to customers.
The company has become the largest independent digital investment advisor in the U.S. Having expanded its 401k business, Betterment has entered the world of Crypto, partnering with Gemini to offer customized crypto portfolios and its "Crypto Investing by Betterment" platform.
Betterment has a wealth of competition in this increasingly crowded space. Other robo advisors offering similar services include Moneyfarm, Wealth Simple, M1 Finance and Personal Capital. Going forward, Betterment hopes to further distance itself from rivals as it further innovates its platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$60m
SERIES F
Jul 2017
$70m
SERIES E
Total funding: $335m
Company benefits
- Get comprehensive medical, dental, and vision, plus a free subscription to One Medical.
- We encourage you to take time off (seriously) and get the rest you need to do your best work.
- Employees welcoming little ones are eligible for our robust parental leave policy after six months of employment.
- We offer a 401(k) match and a match on qualified student loan payments.
- Gain a stake in Betterment’s success with company equity grants.
- Snacks, beverages, and catered lunches at our NYC HQ.
- We provide LGBTQIA+ transition and fertility support.
- Make connections through seven employee affinity groups and a social calendar of hybrid events.
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Sarah Kirshbaum Levy
(CEO)Prior to joining Betterment in 2020, Sarah served as the COO for Viacom Media Networks.
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