Staff / Principal

NerdWallet is on a mission to bring clarity to all of life's financial decisions. We've built an inclusive, flexible, and candid culture where you're empowered to grow, take smart risks, and be unapologetically yourself. We support how you thrive best, whether remote or in-office.

The Consumer Banking & Credit Cards team(s) own web shopping experiences across two of NerdWallet's largest and most mission-critical verticals. We're looking for a Full-Stack Staff Software Engineer who is both a technical leader and hands-on builder, someone who can drive technical excellence across the entire stack while collaborating with stakeholders to shape the future of our product offerings. This is a true full-stack role, ideal for a pacesetter who leads by doing. You ship high-quality code, set the technical direction, and raise the bar for everyone around you. You're equally comfortable building performant web experiences, designing scalable back-end systems, and collaborating on systems that power personalization and data-driven decision-making at scale. You embrace AI tools and modern engineering practices to move fast without sacrificing quality, and you bring that mindset to everything from Core Web Vitals (CWV) and technical SEO to back-end APIs and funnel experiences.

• Shape the future of some of NerdWallet's highest-traffic web shopping experiences by improving performance, SEO, and user engagement.
• Partner with product, SEO, and paid marketing teams to run experiments, measure impact, and iterate quickly.
• Take input from and partner directly with engineering leadership to drive technical initiatives that enhance performance, observability, scalability, security, and developer experience.
• Contribute to platform stability and resilience through effective monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident management.
• Ensure high standards of technical excellence, maintaining a high-quality codebase and driving modernization efforts including AI tooling adoption.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineering team members, promoting best practices in coding, testing, and architecture.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality, performance, and adherence to standards, fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the engineering team.

• 8+ years in software engineering with a strong background in full-stack development and distributed systems with 3+ years of experience at the Staff level or above.
• Expertise in TypeScript, React and Node.js, with experience in additional modern languages.
• Strong experience with modern front-end frameworks such as Next.js and React.js, with an understanding of web performance, Core Web Vitals, and technical SEO.
• Experience architecting and building back-end APIs and microservices, with a focus on scalability, performance, and data integrity.
• Strong understanding of database systems (both SQL and NoSQL), with experience in high-volume data processing.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices, particularly in financial services.
• Experience in observability and running production applications at scale.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Experience with integrating Machine Learning systems, personalization pipelines, and data-driven experimentation.
• Domain knowledge in finance and shopping marketplaces.
• Understanding of accessibility best practices and a keen eye for usability and user experience.
• Familiarity with paid and organic search strategies and how engineering decisions impact business outcomes.

Salary range: $152K – $282K, plus equity. NerdWallet offers industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans, flexible vacation time off, 11 holidays, holiday company shutdown, new parent leave, mental health support, paid sabbatical after 5 years, health and dependent care FSA and HSA with monthly contribution, monthly wellness stipend, cell phone stipend, wifi stipend (remote only), work from home equipment stipend, co-working space subsidy (remote only), 401K with 4% company match, disability and life insurance with employer-paid premiums, and more.

Apply via the provided application link.