Staff Software Engineer – Consumer Engineering
Location
United States
Posted
6 hours ago
Salary
$152K - $282K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer – Consumer Engineering
NerdWallet
• Lead the execution of the team's most complex technical initiatives across the full stack setting the 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 EM and PM to collaboratively roadmap large tracks of work, break down business requirements into technical requirements, and help the team hit deadlines. Proactively manage stakeholders, communicate upward, and build cross-team influence. • Participate in the team’s Pod Lead rotation, responding to incidents, serving stakeholder needs and being on-call via PagerDuty for a week at a time (roughly once every 4-6 weeks).
Job 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)
- Deep knowledge of web performance (Core Web Vitals, caching, critical rendering path, static generation)
- Experience building REST APIs, GraphQL graphs and utilizing cloud services (Vercel & AWS or similar: GCP, Azure, etc.) to build backends and data systems
- Familiarity with utilizing AI software-development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc. to accelerate development
- 1-2+ years experience as in a tech lead capacity
Benefits
- Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents
- Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown
- New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care
- Mental health support
- Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests
- Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
- Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend)
- Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends)
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