Senior Staff Engineer, Betterment
Frontend, Platform Engineering
$230-260k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Banking and investment app
Open for applications
Banking and investment app
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$230-260k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make people’s lives better.
Role
Who you are
- Proven track record leading successful projects that impact technologies and development workflows used by multiple teams
- Expertise with React web development and broad 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)
- Expertise in at least one server-side language (Ruby, Java, C#, C++, Python, etc.)
- Experience developing and maintaining design systems, including approaches for CSS shared across an organization
- Experience configuring JavaScript build tooling (e.g. Vite) and monorepo tooling (e.g. pnpm, Lerna, Nx)
- Experience delivering software with high production values where quality and correctness matters (experience in regulated industries a plus)
- Passion for software engineering, for improving the shared developer experience, and for creating what doesn’t exist
- Strong sense of how to make the tradeoffs required to ship without compromising quality
- Breadth of experience across a variety of tech stacks
- Strong command of fundamental algorithms and data structures
- Appreciation of agility and pragmatism in software development
What the job involves
- As a Senior Staff Software Engineer with expertise in frontend web technologies, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the React and GraphQL app platform that product eng teams use to build features
- You will establish and improve internal frameworks to deliver a delightful, modern, performant user experience for Betterment customers
- You will work directly with eng leadership (Principal Engineers & Directors) to drive the technical direction of our app platform
- You will collaborate closely with the Mobile Platform and Web Platform teams to accelerate product teams’ delivery by driving adoption of platform improvements that simultaneously improve both the developer experience and the user experience
- The platform engineering organization enables engineers across Betterment to ship good code quickly, sustainably, and enjoyably
- Platform engineering teams empower and enable domain-oriented teams through a depth of experience in architecting software systems and driving the engineering standards of the organization
- They influence and shape a technical future that’s qualitatively better than our status quo
- Platform engineering teams work closely with product teams to deliver cross-cutting capabilities, infrastructure and tooling to enable our product teams to deliver value to Betterment's customers and clients
- They are able to identify and work on projects and efforts that have strategic value for the company while driving technical design and up-leveling the engineering organization
- Members of this team have a love for solving interesting technical challenges and influencing organizational decisions that move the business forward
- You’ll be a part of a team that’s tackling difficult questions of scale, architecture, and interaction
- Build things people love. Provide a simple, intuitive, accessible user experience for sophisticated financial advice. Our goal is to delight our customers
- Teach and learn. As a Senior Staff Engineer, we expect you to share your knowledge with less experienced engineers. Help mentor and grow our team professionally as well as learn from our leaders to level up your own talents
- Solve “impossible” problems. Take your ideas to the next level right away. We experiment, iterate, learn, and repeat
- Collaborate with purpose. You’ll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterment’s revolutionary software even better
- Create efficiency. Our software helps customers save time and money. We maintain it through quality code, pragmatic programming, and lean engineering
- Contribute to an engineering culture that fosters accountability, values constructive feedback, and celebrates wins
- Lead. Uphold our company values. Champion our engineering principles. You know how to get things done and inspire others to follow suit
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
- We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career, and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through 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
- Health and wellness: Get comprehensive medical, dental, and vision, plus a free subscription to One Medical.©
- Generous time off: We encourage you to take time off (seriously) and get the rest you need to do your best work.
- Paid parental leave: We welcome new additions to your family with 12-18 weeks of parental leave.
- Matching benefits: We offer a 401(k) match and a match on qualified student loan payments
- Equity: Gain stake in Betterment’s success with company equity grants.
- Free food: Snacks, beverages, and catered lunches at our NYC HQ
- Long-term health resources: We provide LGBTQIA+ transition and fertility support.
- Find your community: Make connections through seven employee affinity groups and a social calendar of hybrid events.
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Jonathan Stein
(Board Member)After studying Economics at Harvard, Jonathan worked as a Consultant at First Manhattan Consulting Group for over 4 years. He founded Betterment in 2007, serving as CEO until 2020 when he stepped down to Chairman of the Board.
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