Staff Software Engineer (Consumer Engineering)
About The Position
The Staff Software Engineer in Consumer Engineering is a hands-on engineer responsible for leading the execution of the team's most complex technical work across the full stack. This role owns the delivery of high-quality software at scale, setting the engineering standard and pace for the team. The Staff Engineer also brings a leadership multiplier to the team, partnering with Product and Engineering to inform technical direction, mentor those around them, and help the team operate at its best. They are a force multiplier whose contributions raise the bar of the team, set the pace and ultimately lead the team to success. The Staff Software Engineer will be a technical leader and thought partner to the Engineering Manager, Product Manager, and partner teams, driving architecture decisions, roadmap planning, and engineering best practices. In this role you will work hands-on to build and maintain full-stack features and services. As someone who prides themselves on accountability, you will own production reliability for Consumer Credit Cards, taking ownership of setting up observability tooling, responding to incidents, and ensuring that alerts are properly in place for both technical and business failure events. You will leverage your experience and expertise in the field to mentor and coach other engineers on the team by technical guidance through code reviews, paired programming, and documentation as opportunities arise.
Requirements
- 8-10+ years of software engineering experience as a Full-stack web developer with a frontend bias
- Production experience at scale
- Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, Node.js and Next.js.
- Hands-on experience with observability tools (DataDog or similar)
- Deep knowledge of web performance (Core Web Vitals, caching, critical rendering path, static generation)
- Experience building REST APIs, GraphQL graphs and utilizing cloud services (Vercel & AWS or similar: GCP, Azure, etc.) to build backends and data systems
- Familiarity with utilizing AI software-development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc. to accelerate development
- 1-2+ years experience as in a tech lead capacity
- Ownership and accountability - comfort navigating ambiguity and operating without clear direction to take action and drive projects forward.
- Communication - skilled at translating complex concepts into language that resonates across varying levels of expertise.
- Collaborative - able to easily build relationships and trust with teammates across a variety of teams and disciplines
- Data-driven - preference to let data tell the story and validate assumptions through metrics tracking and testing
- Align and execute - you are able to facilitate technical discussions, drive decisions, and commit to outcomes even when they weren't the preferred choice.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Experience with organically driven/SEO-focused marketplace websites at scale
- A portfolio or Github profile highlighting their work experience, side projects, open-source contributions, etc.
- An online blog w/ technical writings, case studies and/or knowledge shares.
- Next.js 13+ experience, including App Router.
- Data analytics experience
Responsibilities
- Lead the execution of the team's most complex technical initiatives across the full stack setting the engineering standards and pace for the team to follow.
- Lead technical design and architecture for complex features, documenting systems, identifying tradeoffs, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, scalable, performant, and production-ready (including observability, alerting, and web performance).
- Mentor and uplevel engineers through actionable code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing; advocate for and improve the team's technical best practices.
- Partner with the EM and PM to collaboratively roadmap large tracks of work, break down business requirements into technical requirements, and help the team hit deadlines. Proactively manage stakeholders, communicate upward, and build cross-team influence.
- Participate in the team’s Pod Lead rotation, responding to incidents, serving stakeholder needs and being on-call via PagerDuty for a week at a time (roughly once every 4-6 weeks).
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
- Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
- Monthly Wellness Stipend
- Cell Phone Stipend
- Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend)
- Work from home equipment stipend
- 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
- 401K with 4% company match
- Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) 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
