Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Too many people in the U.S. continue to be left behind by traditional financial services institutions. At Stash, an investing app for more than 2 million active subscribers, we’re on a mission to address that reality by empowering people to invest and build better lives. We’re turning money into a source of hope and opportunity and giving our customers the confidence to take charge of their money and financial future.

It’s an exciting time to be a Stasher! Bolstered by a new slate of world-class leaders and a fresh round of financing, we’re headed into our next phase of growth with momentum. We’ve implemented product enhancements that make it easier for individuals to start their financial journey with us, and operational changes to help us deliver for and support our customers with optimal speed, rigor, and transparency. Also in the past year, Stash launched its groundbreaking back-end infrastructure, Stash Core, allowing the company to exceed 70% in gross margin as it marches towards profitability.

Get to Know Infrastructure Engineering at Stash

As a Staff Software Engineer in the Infrastructure Engineering organization at Stash, your main stakeholders are the Product Development Engineers. You will influence and shape the implementation of their daily work experience.   You thrive on collaborating to solve hard problems, are passionate about finding innovative solutions, can recognize toil, and delight in simplifying a complicated system with little to no impact on the end users.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and execute complex software engineering projects in the infrastructure area - Infrastructure tooling consolidation/standardization, CICD architecture, and Internal Developer Portal.
• Decompose complex problems into simple solutions
• Codifies best practices and chooses solutions that are easily testable and eliminate code smells.
• Influence engineers to hold high standards of maintainability and reduce tech debt by writing elegant code and performing effective code reviews.
• Influence multiple internal teams and external stakeholders without authority and with strong empathy
• Use code reviews as an opportunity to coach and ensure best practices/standards. Considers security and privacy in code and projects.
• Exhibit a deep understanding of abstracting processes to be used by every team.
• Effectively identifies and communicates issues in any system, primarily related to CI/CD and development practices.
• Provide engineering estimates with clear assumptions for assigned tasks and projects.
• Collaborates with other engineers and evaluates tradeoffs between solutions.
• Suggest process improvements for better quality, velocity, and team engagement.
• Proactively communicates relevant information for projects within their squad and/or cross-team projects.
• Collaborates and brainstorms with the whole of engineering to better understand the use cases and user journey.
• Helps onboard new team members into the code and systems.
• Participates in recruiting and interviewing potential Stashers.

Who We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of experience (Depending on the open role) Software engineering experience, preferably within the Infrastructure Engineering area.
• 10+ years of experience in highly scalable cloud architectures, including service-oriented architectures (GCP, AWS experience preferred)
• Ability to collaborate well and come up with maintainable, reliable solutions.
• Experience building scalable, high-performing systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to provide both architectural guidance and detailed technical directions.

Gold Stars

• Fintech experience is a plus

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We proudly celebrate the unique qualities that make you you, 365 days a year, and not just because it’s the right thing to do or good for business. We embed the principles and practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into all that we do to prioritize people, a Stash core value, and to ensure Stashers of all backgrounds and experiences can be their authentic selves. 

We are also proud to be the first and only venture-backed fintech to join the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™, and as an Equal Opportunity Employer, Stash is committed to building an inclusive environment