Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack (Insurance)

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.

A Senior Software Engineer plays a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining complex software systems while providing technical leadership within a team. Their primary purpose is to architect scalable and efficient solutions, ensuring that software meets both functional and non-functional requirements such as performance, security, and maintainability.

Senior Software Engineers are responsible for writing high-quality, scalable, and efficient code, ensuring that software meets business and technical requirements. Additionally, they review and optimize existing code, conduct thorough testing, and troubleshoot complex issues to improve system performance and reliability. Senior software engineers also mentor junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and best practices in coding, architecture, and software development methodologies. They collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and quality assurance professionals, to align technical solutions with business objectives. Furthermore, they contribute to architectural decisions, evaluate new technologies, and drive innovation within the organization. Strong communication, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently while leading projects are essential for success in this role.

This role reports to the Senior Manager, Engineering.

Projects you may be working on in this position include:

• Optimize insurance flows through our organic/paid marketing funnels via ordering changes, micro-optimizations, and A/B testing the auto insurance, home insurance, life insurance, medicare and travel insurance flows

• Design and implement secure, scalable backend integrations with partner and third-party platforms to support conversions and user engagement.

• Lead development of high-impact insurance experiences, including organic SEO pages that drive top-of-funnel traffic and user flows across multiple insurance products (auto, home, life, Medicare, U65 health, travel, and pet).

• Work hands-on with data ingestion pipelines and write performant SQL to verify

• Instrumentation of our systems in our Observability platform DataDog

Where you can make an impact:

• Build across the full software stack — from front end experiences to backend systems and data workflows.

• Design and implement secure, scalable backend integrations with partner and third-party platforms to support conversions and user engagement.

• Contribute to a move-fast development culture by owning the full tech stack with minimal dependencies.

• Use observability and monitoring tools to proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve production issues quickly.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and data teams to deliver measurable impact across the insurance vertical.

• Adding monetization onto pages lacking it, making changes to drive more traffic through pages that have low traffic

• Improve SEO page performance to enhance site speed, accessibility, and user engagement — driving stronger rankings and visibility on SERPs.

• Serving as a mentor to the engineers on the team

• Helping to drive our existing values as a team towards better engineering practices, strong continuous improvement thinking, and failing fast / repairing faster mentality

• Partnering with Management to continuously develop the engineering roadmap for our team

You are:

• Biased to action and are happy to iterate along the way based on what we learn. You tend to believe that time to market is more meaningful than perfection

• Not afraid to fail. We take informed risks and chances, they often work, sometimes they don’t. You learn from those mistakes and incorporate them into how you think in the future

• Aware that “fast” and “quality” are not mutually exclusive. We can deliver high quality, well engineered code fast. You do not cut quality first to meet timelines, you often thoughtfully try to figure out how to do both

• Interested in being a mentor and a teacher to make those around you better. We aren’t perfect, neither are you. You believe that together we a