Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack (DIT)

NerdWallet

1d•Remote

About The Position

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). 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. We are a moderately sized engineering organization supporting the consumer business unit and its aggressive growth plans. We are looking for a highly motivated Full-Stack back-end and data engineering focused Senior Software Engineer to join the Partner Data Ingestion Engineering team. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy coding, and delivering value, this role is for you. As a Senior Engineer, you'll write extensive code, contribute to architecture and design, and elevate the quality of our deliverables while fostering team ownership of outcomes. We are an agile team practicing Sprints and indexing on continuous improvement and delivery. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Engineering.

Requirements

Minimum of 5+ years in software engineering, with a strong background in backend development and distributed systems.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
Proficiency in languages like Python, Java, JavaScript, or others based on the stack.
Experience with front-end frameworks like Next.js, React, or similar.
Apache Airflow, Snowflake, Montecarlo and Cursor.
Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and methodologies (Agile, Scrum, DevOps).
Experience in designing scalable, distributed, and high-performance systems.
Knowledge of SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud for deploying and managing applications.
Familiarity with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and microservices architecture.
Experience with automation tools (CDK, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
Proficiency in unit testing, integration testing, and debugging tools.
Awareness of security principles, authentication, and authorization techniques.
Proficiency with Git and workflows like GitFlow.

Nice To Haves

Experience in consumer credit, lending, loans, or insurance, with a solid understanding of working with multiple external partners and unifying pipelines.
Familiarity with front-end frameworks like Next.js, React or similar.

Responsibilities

Revolutionize Pricing: Lead the transition of pricing inputs from spreadsheets to a custom internal tool, utilizing front-end experience to design and implement a functional UI.
Enable Data Visibility: Design and implement a comprehensive dashboard that delivers real-time, vertical-level data insights for improved decision-making.
Optimize Partner data Ingestions: Build and maintain API and file-based partner ingestion pipelines to streamline data flow.
Streamline Investigations with Automation: Develop innovative solutions to automate manual investigations, empowering stakeholders with self-serve tools to resolve issues faster.
Elevate Data Quality and Alerts: Overhaul and unify the alerting system, implementing advanced data quality checks to drive confidence in analytics.
AI: Leverage AI extensively for innovative solutions and velocity.
Help business stakeholders make data driven decisions by improving the partner ingestion system that ingests data from hundreds of partners and build pricing engine on top of it.
Use observability and monitoring tools to proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve production issues quickly.
Helping to drive our existing values as a team towards better engineering practices, strong continuous improvement thinking, and failing fast / repairing faster mentality.
Serving as a mentor to the engineers on the team.
Partnering with Management to continuously develop the engineering roadmap for our team.

Benefits

Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents
Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown
New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care
Mental health support
Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests
Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend)
Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends)
Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments
Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction
8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter and donate to your favorite causes with a company match
401K with 4% company match
Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools
Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar
Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums