Senior Backend Engineer, Growth Team

At Acorns, our mission is to look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing. How do we accomplish our mission? Our values.

Lead With Heart - With compassion, integrity, and tenacity, inspire yourself and others to move past all previous thresholds of possibility

Make Bold Decisions - We are creating a new world. Be optimistic, adventurous, and courageous. Leap fearlessly into the future

Always Build Trust - Say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’re going to do. We are all owners. We are one team

Never Stop Growing - Change IS the constant. Stay hungry and curious. Be relentless in the pursuit of progress

Find a way - Never settle, no excuses, nothing is impossible. Just make it happen

Our values guide us, and our mission drives us. Come join us and help deliver financial wellness for the whole family, putting the tools of wealth-making into everyone’s hands.

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Sr. Software Engineer (Growth Team) | Acorns

Acorns is seeking experienced software engineers for our Growth team who have a passion for building robust, scalable, software and systems for customer focused financial and educational products, love learning new technologies on the job, think creatively to solve complex problems, and enjoy working collaboratively.

The Growth team is responsible for building and supporting highly reliable and scalable services that support user onboarding and financial education for millions of customers. We are a highly autonomous team that promotes an operational centric, customer first culture.

As an engineer on the Growth team, you will be responsible for making operational improvements to existing services while building new services that provide unique experiences for Acorns customers. You will be expected to take an active role in helping to define the evolution of these services and lead other teams to maintain healthy operations. We like to learn and are curious about new technologies that will help us build better services. Our current stack includes: GraphQL, Typescript, Ruby on Rails, DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS and an array of other AWS services.

This role has the option to be remote or based in our Irvine, CA, or New York, NY offices.

What you will do at Acorns:

• Learn the architecture, services, and technical decisions that power our onboarding and customer identification systems, and begin shadowing our production on-call rotation.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, customer-facing services that support user onboarding and financial education for millions of users.

• Improve the performance and reliability of existing systems, with a strong focus on operational excellence and a customer-first mindset.

• Contribute to process improvements around code reviews, deployments, and testing, while supporting our CI/CD pipeline and at-will deployment practices.

• Take an active role in defining the technical evolution of our services and lead collaboration with other teams to ensure operational health.

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver high-quality features using our modern tech stack: GraphQL, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, ECS, and more.

• Build meaningful connections by engaging in community events and global all-hands sessions with our GoHenry and PixPay partners.

• Broaden your impact by learning about technical initiatives across the org, and increase your influence as a senior engineer.

What you will bring to Acorns:

• 6-10+ years of relevant experience building and supporting production software

• Expertise with SQL and/or NoSQL databases

• Experience leading API design and implementation (REST/GraphQL)

• Strong understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms

• Strong understanding of algorithms, time complexity, data structures and design patterns

• Strong track record of good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality and documentation

• Thirst for delivering game-changing products

• Exceptional drive and precision in delivery

• A belief that your work is tied to your life's mission

• Optimistic about the potential of societal change

You are not expected to have experience with all listed requi