Staff Full-Stack Engineer, Front-end (SEO Engineering)

At NerdWallet, we’re on a mission to bring clarity to all of life’s financial decisions​ and every great mission needs a team of exceptional Nerds. We’ve built an inclusive, flexible, and candid culture where you’re empowered to grow, take smart risks, and be unapologetically yourself (cape optional). Whether remote or in-office, we support how you thrive best. We invest in your well-being, development, and ability to make an impact​ because when one Nerd levels up, we all do.

About the Team

The SEO Engineering team contributes to Nerdwallet’s growth engine by building tools in Next.js, React.Js and Astro.js leveraging WordPress that enables SEO-optimized customer experiences. We create applications that empower content and marketing teams to launch high-traffic consumer facing, performant pages at scale. Our efforts are backed by front-end best practices, strong observability and a focus on quality. Joining SEO Engineering means working on business-critical, high-impact engineering at the intersection of platform, growth, and consumer experience.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer who is both a technical leader and hands-on builder - someone who can drive technical excellence, front-end performance, and platform scalability while collaborating with stakeholders to shape the future of our organic shopping products.

This is a front-end role with full-stack elements, UI/UX, accessibility, and web performance. You’ll lead initiatives that enhance Core Web Vitals (CWV), technical SEO, and observability, ensuring our pages are blazing fast, user-friendly, and optimized for discovery. Beyond the front-end, you’ll also work on back-end APIs and integrate with Machine Learning systems that power these experiences - enabling personalization, and data-driven decision-making at scale.

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll collaborate closely with engineering leadership to influence the engineering roadmap, contribute to best practices, and drive architectural projects that balance speed, scalability, and long-term maintainability. This isn’t just a strategy role - you’ll be hands-on, writing production-quality code, mentoring engineers, and driving technical excellence across the team. You’ll set the pace, ensuring both high-quality execution and fast iteration, acting as a multiplier to help the entire team deliver impact.

Where you can make an impact:

• Shape the future of NerdWallet’s highest-traffic organic pages by improving performance, SEO, and user engagement.

• Partner with product, SEO, and data teams to run experiments, measure impact, and iterate quickly.

• Take input from and partner directly with engineering leadership to drive technical initiatives to 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 modernizing our stack.

• 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.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the tech and finance industries through a practice of continuous learning and self-improvement.

Your experience:

We recognize not everyone will meet all of the criteria. If you meet most of the criteria below and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you.

• Minimum of 8+ years in software engineering, with a strong background in client focused full stack development.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• Expert in ES6, TypeScript, Node.js and the web platform; proficient in other modern languages such as Rust, Go, Python, etc.

• Expert in modern front-end frameworks such as Astro.js Nuxt.js, Next.js, React.js, Tailwind, etc.

• Deeply knowledgeable about Web Performance, Core W