Mobile Engineer

Betterment•New York City, NY

2d•$140,000 - $160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Betterment is a technology-driven financial services company offering investing, savings, retirement, and financial wellness solutions. The Mobile Engineer will join a Product Engineering team building customer-facing applications and help create the first impressions new customers have of Betterment. The role focuses on building and maintaining high-quality mobile experiences that help customers save and invest through important life events, such as buying a house or planning for retirement. The engineer owns medium-sized features from design through release, working closely with Full Stack Engineers, UX designers, product managers, and project leads. The team develops sleek, intuitive, secure, and performant applications, and addresses challenges involving scale, architecture, and interaction. This position is based in Betterment’s New York City office and is hybrid, with four in-office days per week and no required office days during the summer and winter holidays. The listed New York City base salary range is $140,000–$160,000. The position may also be eligible for a company incentive bonus. Betterment offers a benefits package that includes health coverage, insurance, paid time off, parental leave, a sabbatical, professional coaching, equity, and retirement and student-loan matching.

Requirements

Experience building applications with JavaScript or TypeScript and React Native.
Familiarity with the underlying iOS and Android platforms.
Solid understanding of mobile application architecture and performance, including the ability to make reasonable design decisions for owned features.
Write simple, readable, well-tested code that requires minimal rounds of review feedback, with attention to accessibility and performance.
Demonstrated ability to deliver features predictably by balancing scope, complexity, and timing, and proactively communicating changes to scope or timelines.
Collaborative approach and ability to work with teammates across engineering, design, and product.
Interest in improving developer experience and the mobile platform, including contributing to and advocating in engineering forums.
Passion for software engineering, developer experience, and creating new products or capabilities.
Appreciation for agility and pragmatism in software development.
Ability to thrive in a startup-like environment while balancing autonomy and collaboration.
Hands-on experience using AI coding tools in production work, with judgment about when to use them and how to verify their output.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Flutter.
Additional experience with GraphQL.

Responsibilities

Own medium-sized features and project milestones end to end, from design through release, partnering with a project lead on planning and following software development best practices.
Collaborate with Product and Design teams to build customer experiences for saving and investing.
Work alongside Full Stack Engineers to help features and the application scale with the business while remaining performant and secure.
Mentor less experienced teammates through code review and by helping them get unblocked, while learning from senior engineers.
Write clean code, conduct rigorous testing, and use pragmatic programming practices to maintain software efficiently.
Triage and resolve local and production issues using logs, traces, and metrics.
Write concise design documents that build consensus within the team.
Use AI coding tools in production work with sound judgment, verifying their output when appropriate and coding directly when needed.
Collaborate in small groups to improve Betterment’s application and contribute ideas and initiative toward company objectives.
Contribute to engineering forums and improve the team’s developer experience and mobile platform.