Senior Software Engineer, SmartAsset
Platform Engineering
$117-210k
Salary applicable to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, Rhode Island, Washington, and New York City residents. + Equity packages
Financial information and advice software
Open for applications
Financial information and advice software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$117-210k
Salary applicable to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, Rhode Island, Washington, and New York City residents. + Equity packages
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help people make smart financial decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role
- Comprehensive DevOps experience in building, shipping, scaling, and operating Java web applications and services in AWS
- Experience designing complex cloud solutions based on AWS and the ability to plan the implementation of these solutions
- Demonstrated critical and strategic thinking about business, products, and technical challenges to stakeholders
- Strong hands-on experience in AWS
- A strong grasp of modern web application architecture
- Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code in AWS with Terraform
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with familiarity working in an agile environment
- Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment and the ability to be cross-functional
- Passion for having engineers as customers and for building the tools that enable other engineering teams to meet their objectives
- A holistic, system-based mindset: an obsessive focus on the near and far-term problems in scope and the strategic architecture that will support teams in solving these problems
- Dedication to the documentation of the systems, architectures, technical decisions and capabilities that our product delivery teams rely on to succeed
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Information Technology or Computer Science
Desirable
- 3+ years experience in an AWS cloud engineer / DevOps role
- Exposure to the Platform Engineering discipline where your customers are other engineers
- Planning and executing complex application and database migrations
- CI/CD automation and template design using AWS CodePipeline and related tooling
- Team mentorship, technical leadership by influence
- Experience rolling out the Cloudwatch observability stack across an engineering organization
- Docker-based deployment with ECS
- Cloud Security Best Practices
- Incident, release, problem, and change management processes
- Documenting and iterating the architectures of large software systems
- PostgreSQL RDS
What the job involves
- Come help us build the platform that SmartAsset engineers leverage to ship software to production and derive insights from data!
- Join a team focused on identifying and building new services to help our engineers work better and smarter
- Platform Engineers are deeply technical but product-focused, striving to raise the bar for developer experience at SmartAsset for everything from CICD pipelines to application architecture
- You’ll be working as part of a small but essential team making critical decisions and improvements to our engineering platform
- You’ll work closely with the data and engineering teams to understand the problems they encounter and help fuel the platform's roadmap
- You’ll get the opportunity to work with many other talented individuals and see the impact in of the work that you’re doing
- Empower product delivery teams to execute independently while meeting a high bar of excellence
- Identify and deliver capabilities as part of an engineering platform that help product delivery teams to succeed
- Design and iterate on infrastructure-as-code templates and software libraries that help engineering teams move faster, including for applications, databases, edge infrastructure, AWS account infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability
- Shape the DevOps experience at SmartAsset, bundling up telemetry, tracing, logs, dashboards and alerting in a coherent way that supports strong collaboration and rapid issue resolution
- Engage in a highly collaborative team environment where you leverage your experience to guide teams on cloud architecture, scaling patterns, development opportunities, cost savings, and vulnerabilities
- Design, develop and integrate mature DevOps pipelines, including build automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), security, observability, and alerting
- Develop a strategic roadmap and a strong agile backlog that supports adoption of cloud best practices and enables high-quality product delivery
Our take
Management of personal finance is typically a practice fraught with pitfalls and risks. Tools, information, and professional advice to help manage money have subsequently become invaluable resources to many Americans.
SmartAsset serves as a resource cache and marketplace connecting consumers with financial advisors. This focus on digital resources is proving savvy, as trends in the advisory profession indicate more consumers are turning online for support and professional help. SmartAsset's approach therefore allows it to reach more than 100 million people each month.
SmartAsset has managed to modernize the process of locating clients for advisors - previously a slow and labour-intensive process - while also materially assisting its large number of low-income customers. This saw SmartAsset’s revenue grow by ten times over four years, and it seems likely to capitalize on a growing number of US citizens looking to manage their financial planning digitally.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Jun 2018
$28m
SERIES C
Total funding: $160.5m
Company benefits
- All roles at SmartAsset are currently and will remain remote - flexibility to work from anywhere in the contiguous US
- Medical, Dental, Vision - multiple packages available based on your individualized needs
- Life/AD&D Insurance - basic coverage at 100% company paid, additional supplemental available
- Short-term and Long-term Disability
- FSA: Medical and Dependant Care
- 401K
- Equity packages for each role
- Time Off: PTO, 3 Month Paid Parental Leave, Secondary Caregiver Leave
- EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
- Employee Resource Groups supporting our underrepresented communities
- Pet Insurance
- Home Office Stipend
Company HQ
Murray Hill, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Carvin
(Founder & CEO)Michael's expertise is in financial decision-making. In the pre-SmartAsset days, Michael worked in private equity. They spent their time using financial models to help companies understand how to make better decisions.
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