Senior Software Engineer, Consumer Facing Web Products
About The Position
NerdWallet is hiring a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with a strong product sense for its Consumer Banking organization, which owns web shopping experiences for two major financial verticals. The team builds data-driven marketplace experiences designed to help millions of users make smarter financial decisions. This hands-on role works across the stack, with a primary focus on modern, high-performance user experiences that balance speed, usability, and search visibility. The engineer will use AI development tools in their regular workflow and help advance the team’s development harness and automations. The role involves close collaboration with product managers, designers, engineers, SEO strategists, content teams, and business stakeholders to create scalable shopping flows and measurable business impact. The engineer will also contribute to performance, observability, accessibility, experimentation, shared UI components, and technical excellence. The position is remote and based in the U.S.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of software engineering experience, with meaningful contributions across front-end and back-end systems.
- Deep experience in TypeScript, React.js, and Next.js or a related isomorphic framework such as Astro or Gatsby.
- Strong product and UX sensibility, including attention to performance, usability, and responsive design.
- Hands-on experience building and consuming RESTful and GraphQL APIs, integrating with SQL or NoSQL databases, and writing full-stack features.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding tools such as Cursor, Copilot, or Claude Code in a regular development workflow.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Vercel and modern DevOps practices such as CI/CD and observability.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in public-facing, high-visibility shopping marketplaces.
- Background in FinTech, financial services, or other regulated industries.
- Hands-on experience with web vitals, lazy loading, caching strategies, or third-party analytics tools.
- A technical blog, open-source contributions, or a portfolio site showcasing work.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and evolve React/Next.js front-end applications serving millions of monthly users.
- Improve Core Web Vitals, accessibility, and technical SEO to drive discoverability and engagement.
- Partner with product, SEO, and content teams to launch, test, and iterate on high-impact shopping experiences.
- Design and implement backend APIs and services for dynamic, personalized content, rapid experimentation, and partner integrations.
- Collaborate on platform-wide initiatives involving performance, observability, A/B testing infrastructure, and front-end developer experience.
- Contribute to shared UI components and design systems to scale high-quality user experiences across pages.
- Use AI coding tools and spec-driven workflows in day-to-day work, contributing to the team’s development harness and automations.
- Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and technical discussions to raise the engineering bar.
Benefits
- Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents.
- Flexible vacation time off, 11 holidays, and a 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.
- Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA plan with a monthly NerdWallet contribution.
- Monthly wellness stipend and cell phone stipend.
- Wifi stipend for remote employees.
- Work-from-home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy for remote employees.
- Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities.
- Hackathons and team events across teams and departments.
- Company-wide events, including NerdLove and an annual Charity Auction.
- Eight hours of volunteer time off per quarter and company matching for donations to favorite causes.
- 401(k) with a 4% company match.
- Opportunity to test and benefit from new financial products and tools.
- Financial wellness guidance and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner through Northstar.
- Disability and life insurance with employer-paid premiums.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
