Staff Full Stack Engineer, Stash
$159.4-236.2k
Banking and investment app
Job no longer available
Banking and investment app
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$159.4-236.2k
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
- 10+ years of work experience in software development
- 6+ years of experience working in front-end technologies
- An experienced engineer who can turn ideas into reliable code that others find easy to understand and modify
- Experience in Golang, NodeJS, Typescript, ReactJS
- Experience building backend APIs
- Experience being a tech lead designing large-scale systems
- Creative problem solver with an affinity for testing, debugging, and overall code quality
- Data-driven decision maker, willing to take risks, fail fast, and iterate quickly
- Familiarity with or interest in our stack Sidekiq, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, AWS
Desirable
- Experience building an application at scale
- Experience transitioning monolithic systems to microservice-based systems
- Experience with event-based architectures
- Experience being a mentor
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack, you will be responsible for building reliable, scalable and performant software to power the Stash experience
- You will be part of guiding the overall software architecture by working closely with our Principal Engineers and the rest of the development team, including designers to ensure that our apps meet the highest standards of quality, reliability, scalability and performance
- Architect, design, and implement full stack of the product
- Partner with the product team to evolve product aligned with the vision for the product
- Own the end to end delivery of software components from inception to production
- Work in a cross-functional agile team to deliver working software incrementally
- Instrument, test, profile, and code review software
- Continuously deploy to our cloud-based infrastructure
- Scale software infrastructure for a quickly-growing user base
- Lead code reviews for projects/systems as a self-directed reviewer applying design principles, coding standards and best practices
- Collaboratively review and update coding standards
- Create production readiness plans for all software releases
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. Its aim is 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)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
(CEO & Co-Founder)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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