Frontend Architect

At Edelman Financial Engines, we believe everyone deserves to move their financial life forward.

Founded on the idea that financial education is a fundamental right for everyone—not just the wealthy, Edelman Financial Engines continues to grow and challenge the status quo. We’re moving forward, together. If our purpose-driven commitment inspires you, we invite you to consider joining our team.

Our product and technology organization builds solutions that provide personalized financial planning and advice for over 1.3 million clients, accounting for over $300B in assets under management and used daily by our team of 340+ planners across the United States. Our teams are empowered to make decisions that drive business value without red-tape and push the bounds of financial and technical innovation. We follow an agile process, moving quickly, solving difficult problems in new ways, and empowering everyone to have a voice in the direction of our products. Because we are passionate about building quality software, we invest heavily in automated testing, take code reviews seriously and prioritize refactoring. We have a steadfast focus on the improvement of the skills of the team members and provide opportunities to use new technologies and work in different areas of our codebase.

We are looking for a Frontend Architect to join our Architecture team. This is a technical, hands-on role for a senior front-end engineer and leader. You will spend a lot of time writing code, but also work collaboratively with other architects, engineers, and leaders across multiple teams to help shape the frontend architecture and design system within our Product and Technology organization. As a leader and architect, you will ensure that web experiences across our organization implement modern and future-forward solutions that include responsive design, analytics and monitoring, user experience optimization, and automated testing.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for building scalable, maintainable, and tested software in collaboration with a team that embraces a vision of engineering excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Solve the hardest front-end problems that impact our entire Product and Technology organization
• Stay up-to-date with front-end technologies as they evolve and instill changes as needed
• Provide thought leadership to technology teams, consulting on modern front-end architecture, best practices and design patterns
• Develop shared components for our design system to be utilized across other engineering teams
• Actively collaborate with other architects to solve problems together and establish shared patterns
• Partner with engineers through code reviews, pair programming, interactive design sessions and team retrospectives
• Work with our engineering leadership team to prioritize work quarterly

Requirements:

• 7+ years software development experience including experience developing modern web applications using React, Angular or a similar Javascript-based framework
• Experience working with design systems and component libraries at a large scale
• Experience designing and developing complex React applications
• Experience in coaching and mentoring other engineers
• Experience working with NX Monorepos is a plus
• Comfort working both independently and collaboratively with other team members
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Edelman Financial Engines takes a market-based approach to pay. The expected base salary range for this role nationally is $150,000-$190,000. However, final base pay will be carefully determined based on several factors, including responsibilities, job-related skills, relevant experience, geographic location, and market conditions. Additionally, this role may be eligible for other forms of compensation and benefits, such as a discretionary bonus, health, dental and other wellness plans, and 401(k) contributions.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific benefits eligible for this role during the hiring process.

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