Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
LearnLux is the leading provider of workplace financial wellbeing, blending fiduciary digital planning with access to one-on-one guidance from Certified Financial Planner™️ professionals. Our award-winning program helps employees navigate critical financial decisions from budgeting and benefits elections to equity compensation, home buying, and retirement so they can feel confident about their money and focused at work. Advanced reporting helps our partners understand impact, driving outcomes like reduced financial stress, increased productivity, and improved retention. We’re building LearnLux with intention. We move quickly, operate with a high bar for quality, and value people who take ownership of their work. If you’re energized by solving new problems, taking accountability, and pushing yourself to do your best work every day, you’ll find this a rewarding environment. We’re a venture-backed company that has raised over $35M to date and is supported by experienced investors and long-term partners. We’re a growth-focused business building for scale, and we’re excited by the opportunities and challenges that come with that journey. At LearnLux, you will build a product that changes lives. Our mission is to empower people to take control of their financial future, whether that means getting out of debt, buying their first home, or preparing for retirement. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll contribute directly to this mission by designing and building scalable backend systems that power our enterprise-grade SaaS product. In this role, you’ll lead and execute projects to tackle the complex technical challenges that come with scaling an enterprise platform. This includes distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data systems, and AI-enabled features. You will play a critical role in delivering reliable, secure, and scalable systems while partnering closely with your team to execute against product and technical priorities. We are a small, agile engineering team, and this role is hands-on. You’ll spend the majority of your time building and shipping high-quality systems while collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and data partners. You’ll contribute to system design, improve engineering practices, and help drive projects forward with a strong sense of ownership. If you’re excited by building impactful systems, working across the stack, and contributing to the future of financial wellness, we’d love to meet you. This role is based in Denver, Colorado. Remote candidates will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of projects and systems.
- Proven experience building and maintaining scalable backend systems in a SaaS environment.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts and cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with Node.js and/or Python. (Other language experience is welcome so long as you’re willing to learn and work in these.)
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, GCP preferred (AWS experience acceptable).
- Familiarity with security and compliance considerations in production systems.
- Experience using automation and AI-driven tools to improve developer productivity or system efficiency.
- Ability to break down complex problems and execute within a defined scope.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively within a cross-functional team.
- Clear communication skills in technical discussions and project execution.
Nice To Haves
- Experience contributing to larger architectural initiatives (e.g., multi-tenancy, platform scaling).
- Experience in financial technology, regulated, or compliance-heavy enterprise SaaS environments.
- Experience working in a startup environment.
- Experience working with data systems, including data warehouses, pipelines, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services and systems that support LearnLux’s enterprise SaaS platform.
- Contribute to the evolution of our platform architecture, including efforts such as multi-tenancy and system scalability, within the scope of your team’s projects.
- Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure for reliability and performance, primarily on GCP (with AWS experience welcomed).
- Apply strong engineering fundamentals to ensure systems are secure, reliable, and compliant.
- Work with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Pulumi (preferred) or Terraform to maintain consistent and scalable environments.
- Collaborate with product, design, and data teams to translate requirements into well-scoped technical solutions.
- Build and maintain backend services using Node.js and Python, contributing hands-on to critical systems.
- Drive engineering efficiency through automation, including the use of AI-driven or agentic systems to improve developer workflows, operations, and internal tooling.
- Support global performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across the engineering team.
Benefits
- Remote-first company structure
- Medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k)
- Mental wellbeing (Talkspace)
- Financial wellbeing (LearnLux)
- Paid vacation and sick leave
- Paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
- A supportive, inclusive team culture
- Opportunities for continuous learning and growth at a fast-growing startup at the cutting edge intersection of financial wellness and technology
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
