Website Developer, Betterment
$140-155k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (New York City)
Banking and investment app
Open for applications
Banking and investment app
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$140-155k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (New York City)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make people’s lives better.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working in theme development in CMS platforms. HubSpot and Webflow would be fantastic experiences to have, but Wordpress, Joomla, or other website solutions count too
- A portfolio of experience executing rich animated or video-based web experiences in highly performant ways, such as Lottie, HTML5/CSS3, our other approaches. Data visualization backgrounds could be especially useful
- Experience in modern Javascript techniques. Bonus points for server side and TypeScript experience
- As part of a growing team, everything you do will be novel. You should excel in ambiguity and know how to quickly become an expert in something new
- Strong organizational skills when it comes to CSS management and working with design systems plus a focus on a11y
- At least 2-3 years of professional work experience, especially in a web development role, such as at a web development agency
- A passion for growth and seeing the results of your work come to life. This role has consistently evolved though self-starting individuals. You can make it what you want
What the job involves
- As part of our cross-functional Website Experience team, Website Developers will support Betterment’s growth by building delightful experiences for internal and external users. This position will report to our Engineering organization
- Own our web development workflow for HubSpot CMS, serving as the platform expert and maintainer of secure development procedures across our internal teams and external development partners
- Own and improve our proprietary deployment pipeline, becoming the DevOps expert for the most important public facing application at Betterment
- Identify and optimize inefficiencies like compile time or bulk updates on multitudes of JSON files
- Use modern observability strategies to ensure uptime for our site and positive user experiences
- Build out key, flexible page templating to enable speedy iteration for the non-technical content managers and designers on the website team
- Develop our technical approach to high-fidelity visual experiences, such as animations in Lottie, HTML5/CSS3, and video, collaborating closely with our in-house animator
- Use advanced javascript frameworks like React to build rich user experiences to demonstrate crucial concepts, and critical business flows to capture user intent
- Create a consistent eventing framework to inform business decisions
- Maintain and extend our content database system in HubDB by writing well-configured endpoints to support other application engineers consuming CMS content within our other properties or other 3rd party applications. You are the API developer for our consuming application teams
- Collaborate closely with our Web Platform and Design System teams, aligning our publicly facing website with our web and mobile applications visually, accessibility-wise, and in overall UX
- Become a leading development professional and feedback-giver for HubSpot, pushing our partners in R&D and new advancements in the website space, developer operations, and CRM development
- Working with our SRE team, create automated serverless functions to help us meet our compliance requirements and keep our content fresh
Application process
- 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.
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.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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 values
- Pursue happiness
- Start with the customer
- Build relationships beyond the task
- Own it and lead it
- Iterate to breakthrough
- Embrace efficiency
- Create enduring quality
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
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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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