Senior Staff Engineer, Stash
Infrastructure
$180.4-270.6k
+ Equity
Banking and investment app
Job no longer available
Banking and investment app
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$180.4-270.6k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
Stash's mission is to empower everyday Americans to build wealth by making investing simple and affordable.
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate would be proficient in multiple areas
- 15+ years of work experience in infrastructure engineering disciplines
- 8+ years of experience working in Cloud technologies - AWS, GCP, Azure, etc
- 5+ years of hands on experience in large scale Kubernetes deployments
- 5+ years of hands on experience with the following - IaC (Terraform), CICD (GH Actions and ArgoCD), Postgres, Redis, and Kafka
- An experienced engineer who can turn ideas into reliable code that others find easy to understand and modify
- Experience architecting large-scale enterprise systems
- Creative problem solver with a passion for testing, debugging, and overall code quality
- Data-driven decision maker, willing to take risks, fail fast and iterate quickly
Desirable
- Experience building an application at scale
- Experience with event-based architectures
- Experience in front-end and back-end technologies like NodeJS, Typescript, ReactJS, and GoLang or related technologies
- Experience being a mentor
- Experience in the FinTech space
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer, Infrastructure to spearhead the architecture design and implementation of the Stash’s Cloud Infrastructure and Developer Productivity tooling to support the growing needs from the overall Technology Organization
- As an infrastructure technology leader, you will be responsible for building reliable, scalable, and performant infrastructure to power the Stash experience
- You will be part of leading the overall software and infrastructure architecture by working closely with our Product managers, Designers, and the rest of the Technology Architecture committee team to ensure that our infrastructure meets the highest standards of quality, reliability, scalability, and performance
- Be a technical leader and partner in driving the architecture vision of the Cloud Infrastructure. Drive adoption of modern infrastructure architecture principles and best practices
- Be a Subject Matter Expert in our CICD tools, IaC technologies, and other tools that drive our Product Development Experience
- Be customer-obsessed. Recognizing and staying ahead of our customer's requirements in an evolving business and technological environment is of utmost importance
- Partner with Security, Engineering and Product teams to evolve our infrastructure to aligned with the vision of the company
- Own the end-to-end delivery of Cloud components from inception to production
- Scale our Cloud infrastructure for a rapid growing user base
- Define standards and best practices. Review code and process periodically to ensure the standards are being followed
- Roll up your sleeves and heads down on coding when necessary
- Create production readiness plans for all changes
- Mentor and grow engineers
Our take
Founded in 2015, Stash was created in response to studies showing that 44% of Americans don’t invest in stocks, 70% of households don’t have a long-term financial plan, and 68% are afraid to retire. Stash offers beginner retail investors the tools to invest small amounts in stocks and exchange-traded funds. It aims to help new investors learn the ropes, offering preference-tailored guidance and digestible investment summaries.
Its service, although pricier than competitors like Wealthfront and Acorns, remains competitive through its highly educational and beginner-friendly focus. This is a lucrative feature for Stash, given the recent surge in first-time and amateur retail investors. The company has more than 6 million customers, and its assets under management total about $3 billion.
Its focus on long-term profit over day trading is refreshing in the retail investment app market. It could prove especially attractive to its younger customer base (average age 29), who are on the whole trending away from traditional legacy banking and looking towards new, innovative financial platforms.
Stash was not immune to the market turmoil of 2022, which particularly impacted the fintech sector, and was forced to restructure. Having streamlined the business, it received major funding and a leadership change in 2023. Stash is now setting its sights on an acquisition or public offering in the near future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
May 2025
$146m
SERIES H
Oct 2023
$40m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $656.9m
Company benefits
- Work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. or U.K
- Learning & Development stipend
- Excellent medical, dental & vision insurance
- Unlimited time off
- Paid parental leave
Company HQ
Garment District, New York, NY
Leadership
Brandon Krieg
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Brandon started his career as a Partner at EdgeTrade, where he spent 9 years, before working as MD of Knight Capital Group for half a decade. He left his role as Head of Global Electronic Execution at Macquarie Securities Group to co-found Stash in June 2015.
Ed Robinson
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)They joined Macquarie Group in 2005, where they worked for 10 years. Initially starting in private banking, they progressed from Asian Sales Trader to European Sales Trader and then ultimately Head of Sales, Electronic Execution. They left this role in 2015 to co-found Stash.
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