Staff Software Engineer, Product Focused, Consumer Marketplaces

NerdWallet
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 152,000 - 282,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8-10 yearsSkills: ["React","TypeScript","Node.js","Next.js","DataDog","REST APIs","GraphQL","AWS","GCP","AI tools","Observability","Web performance"]

Lead and deliver complex full‑stack features for the Consumer Engineering team, setting engineering standards, driving architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and ensuring production reliability and observability across NerdWallet’s consumer credit card platform.

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NerdWallet
NerdWallet
3 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Product Focused, Consumer Marketplaces

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Job Summary

Lead and deliver complex full‑stack features for the Consumer Engineering team, setting engineering standards, driving architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and ensuring production reliability and observability across NerdWallet’s consumer credit card platform.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the execution of the team’s most complex technical initiatives across the full stack, setting engineering standards and pace for the team to follow.
  • •Lead technical design and architecture for complex features, documenting systems, identifying tradeoffs, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, scalable, performant, and production‑ready (including observability, alerting, and web performance).
  • •Mentor and uplevel engineers through actionable code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing; advocate for and improve the team’s technical best practices.
  • •Partner with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager to roadmap large tracks of work, break down business requirements into technical requirements, and help the team hit deadlines; proactively manage stakeholders and build cross‑team influence.
  • •Participate in the team’s Pod Lead rotation, responding to incidents and being on‑call via PagerDuty for a week at a time (~every 4‑6 weeks).

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 152,000 - 282,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityRemote WorkWifi StipendCell Phone

Key Requirements

  • •8-10+ years of software engineering experience as a full‑stack web developer with a frontend bias
  • •Production experience at scale
  • •Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, Node.js and Next.js
  • •Hands‑on experience with observability tools (DataDog or similar)
  • •1-2+ years of experience as a tech lead
Experience:8-10 yearsFintechFinance
Skills:ReactTypeScriptNode.jsNext.jsDataDogREST APIsGraphQLAWSGCPAI toolsObservabilityWeb performance
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ReactTypeScriptNode.jsNext.jsDataDogREST APIsGraphQLAWSGCPAI tools

Company Brief

NerdWallet
NerdWallet provides personal finance guidance, comparison tools, and financial product recommendations (credit cards, mortgages, insurance, loans) to help consumers and small businesses make informed money decisions via content, calculators, and advisory services.
Industry: Publishing
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 500M to 1B
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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