Staff Engineer Frontend - Platform Engineering
Staff Engineer Frontend - Platform Engineering
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$ 200000 - 228000
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About Betterment
Betterment is a leading technologydriven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions including a 401(k) for small and mediumsized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making peoples lives better. Were headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NYbased positions (three days/ week inoffice).
About the role
As a 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 collaborate closely with the Mobile Platform team and your Web Platform teammates to accelerate product teams delivery by driving adoption of platform improvements that simultaneously improve both the developer experience and the user experience. You will work closely with eng leadership (Staff Engineers & Directors) to drive the technical direction of our app platform.
The platform engineering organization enables engineers across Betterment to ship good code quickly sustainably and enjoyably. Platform engineering teams empower and enable domainoriented 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 thats qualitatively better than our status quo. Platform engineering teams work closely with product teams to deliver crosscutting capabilities infrastructure and tooling to enable our product teams to deliver value to Betterments 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 upleveling the engineering organization. Members of this team have a love for solving interesting technical challenges and influencing organizational decisions that move the business forward. Youll be a part of a team thats tackling difficult questions of scale architecture and interaction.
This role is based out of our NYC office. Below weve reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterments total compensation package for employees.
- New York City: $200000 $228000
We offer a competitive equity package health dental and vision benefits life and AD&D shortterm and longterm disability insurance EAP commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ we require in office attendance Tuesday through Thursday weekly.
A day in the life
- 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 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. Youll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterments 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.
What were looking for
- Proven track record leading successful projects that involve collaborating with and coordinating 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 endtoend browser testing and accessibility validation (experience with visual testing a plus)
- Expertise in at least one serverside language (Ruby Java C# C Python etc. and backend web technology (experience with Rails a plus)
- 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 doesnt 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 being at Betterment means for you
We change lives
Join a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact always laddering up to our mission: making peoples lives better.
We set audacious goals
We set them for the company our customers and ourselvesand we wont stop until we reach them. We dont just show up; we give our all then celebrate our wins.
We value all perspectives
When we collaborate were at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.
We invest in you with:
- A competitive suite of benefits including: medical dental and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; STD and LTD benefits including infertility support and World Professional Association for Transgender Health approved benefits; and generous parental leave.
- Flexible paid time off (and encouragement to use it!
- Meaningful opportunity for community building through our 7 Employee Resource Groups
- Empowerment to own and lead change and affect the business
- Dedicated professional development opportunities
- Lunch from our inhouse chef three days a week at our NYC headquarters
What happens next
Well take a few weeks to review all applications. If wed like to spend more time with you well reach out to arrange next steps which will include 34 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.
In the interview process well 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 35 weeks to make a hiring decision depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice we aim to interview at least 23 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions were 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!
Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process please reach out to your recruiter.
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Come join us!
Were an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal state and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees applicants or any other covered persons because of race color religion creed national origin or ancestry ethnicity sex gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual) sexual orientation marital status age physical or mental disability citizenship past current or prospective service in the uniformed services predisposing genetic characteristic domestic violence victim status arrest records or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state or local law.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
