Sr. Staff Engineer, Frontend

About Betterment

Betterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making people’s lives better. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (three days/ week in-office).

About the role

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer with expertise in frontend web technologies, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the React and GraphQL app platform that product eng teams use to build features. You will establish and improve internal frameworks to deliver a delightful, modern, performant user experience for Betterment customers. You will work directly with eng leadership (Principal Engineers & Directors) to drive the technical direction of our app platform. You will collaborate closely with the Mobile Platform and Web Platform teams to accelerate product teams’ delivery by driving adoption of platform improvements that simultaneously improve both the developer experience and the user experience.

The platform engineering organization enables engineers across Betterment to ship good code quickly, sustainably, and enjoyably. Platform engineering teams empower and enable domain-oriented teams through a depth of experience in architecting software systems and driving the engineering standards of the organization. They influence and shape a technical future that’s qualitatively better than our status quo. Platform engineering teams work closely with product teams to deliver cross-cutting capabilities, infrastructure and tooling to enable our product teams to deliver value to Betterment's customers and clients. They are able to identify and work on projects and efforts that have strategic value for the company while driving technical design and up-leveling the engineering organization. Members of this team have a love for solving interesting technical challenges and influencing organizational decisions that move the business forward. You’ll be a part of a team that’s tackling difficult questions of scale, architecture, and interaction.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees. 

• New York City: $230,000 - $260,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.  For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Tuesday through Thursday, weekly.

A day in the life

• Build things people love. Provide a simple, intuitive, accessible user experience for sophisticated financial advice. Our goal is to delight our customers.
• Teach and learn. As a Senior Staff Engineer, we expect you to share your knowledge with less experienced engineers. Help mentor and grow our team professionally as well as learn from our leaders to level up your own talents.
• Solve “impossible” problems. Take your ideas to the next level right away. We experiment, iterate, learn, and repeat.
• Collaborate with purpose. You’ll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterment’s revolutionary software even better.
• Create efficiency. Our software helps customers save time and money. We maintain it through quality code, pragmatic programming, and lean engineering.
• Contribute to an engineering culture that fosters accountability, values constructive feedback, and celebrates wins.
• Lead. Uphold our company values. Champion our engineering principles. You know how to get things done and inspire others to follow suit.

What we’re looking for

• Proven track record leading successful projects that impact technologies and development workflows used by multiple teams
• Expertise with React web development and broad familiarity with JavaScript open source ecosystem
• Experience building and consuming GraphQL APIs (experience with Apollo Client a plus).
• Experience with modern approaches for testing web applications, including end-to-end browser testing and accessibility validation (experience with Playwright and Chromatic a plus)
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