Principal Engineer, iOS

Millions in the U.S. continue to be underserved or ignored by traditional financial institutions. At Stash, an investing app for more than 2 million active subscribers, we are addressing that reality by giving everyday Americans the confidence to take charge of their money and financial future. Our plans—starting at just $3 a month—provide easy and affordable access to a suite of products including investing, banking, education, and advice. Stashers are 18% more financially literate than the average American, and customers rely on Stash’s unique tools, guardrails, and content to learn about money and build wealth for the long-term. 

In 2022, we made tremendous steps forward in the Stash customer experience, through the launches of Stash Core, a new banking account experience featuring access to an upgraded Stock-Back® Debit Mastercard®, enhanced customer support, and refreshed benefits, including increased rewards; and expanded access to cryptocurrency through a separate crypto account offering. 

Our Talented Team 

We are proud to attract phenomenal individuals who share our commitment to unlocking financial opportunity for a new generation of investors. Their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences have helped create a thriving and inclusive culture based on the notion of “Prioritizing People,” a Stash core value.  

Let’s solve complex problems and tackle wealth inequality.

We are seeking a Senior Principal Engineer with a passion for building customer-centric, reliable, scalable, and performant software. In this role, you will provide strategic technical guidance for your Engineering Organization and fellow Principal Engineer cohort, with a focus on simplicity, scalability, problem solving and successful delivery. You will add a technical, mentoring, and mission-driven presence across the broader organization and partner with colleagues to help lead our software engineering efforts. We place great value on cross-functional collaboration skills. In this role, you will support and mentor engineers with technical guidance and work with the VP of Engineering to continually improve processes around technical direction, architecture scalability, and ongoing engineering innovation. A strong track record of building and scaling high-performing engineered systems is preferred.

What You'll Do

TECHNOLOGY AND EXECUTION

• Frame and define high-level engineering initiatives
• Work with teams and stakeholders to ensure clear requirements and deadlines
• Guide engineering teams to continuously improve, meet deadlines, and consistently deliver high-quality software
• Work with the team’s engineers to solve a class of highly technical problems including:
  • Architecture and design
  • Code and code patterns, API design
  • Testing and code quality
  • Reliability, scalability and security
  • Infrastructure development and cloud cost management
• Work with peers and senior leadership to standardize and evolve engineering architecture and best practices

DEVELOP LEADERS

• Establish clear goals and standards for senior engineers to promote a culture of ownership; coach and develop these leaders
• Lead technical initiatives and projects, providing technical guidance, direction, and mentorship to team members
• Mentor and sponsor engineers; participate in programs for engineering growth
• Mentor and develop engineers to confidently and capably perform incident management activities in support of our internal SLOs
• Mentor and teach engineers to operate independently and own their technical decisions

DEVELOP TEAMS

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive technical innovation and establish technical vision and strategy
• Build and foster a culture of “engineering excellence,” “operational excellence,” “customer obsession,” and ownership
• Build strong working and collaborative relationships with senior leadership and senior engineers
• Help develop and evangelize a strong engineering culture including influence across the wider engineering organization
• Develop and maintain technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives

DEVELOP SYSTEMS

• Research and develop new technologies, identifying opportunities for improvement, and ensuring adherence to industry standards and best practices
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices, and provide guidance and recommendations to senior engineers and stakeholders
• Facilitate communication and collaboration between our engineering teams and the rest of the organization
• Ensure the quality and performance of technical systems and solutions, iden