About Betterment

Betterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making people’s lives better. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (three days/ week in-office).

About the role

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer with expertise in frontend web technologies, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the React and GraphQL app platform that product eng teams use to build features. You will establish and improve internal frameworks to deliver a delightful, modern, performant user experience for Betterment customers. You will work directly with eng leadership (Principal Engineers & Directors) to drive the technical direction of our app platform. You will collaborate closely with the Mobile Platform and Web Platform teams to accelerate product teams’ delivery by driving adoption of platform improvements that simultaneously improve both the developer experience and the user experience.

The platform engineering organization enables engineers across Betterment to ship good code quickly, sustainably, and enjoyably. Platform engineering teams empower and enable domain-oriented teams through a depth of experience in architecting software systems and driving the engineering standards of the organization. They influence and shape a technical future that’s qualitatively better than our status quo. Platform engineering teams work closely with product teams to deliver cross-cutting capabilities, infrastructure and tooling to enable our product teams to deliver value to Betterment’s customers and clients. They are able to identify and work on projects and efforts that have strategic value for the company while driving technical design and up-leveling the engineering organization. Members of this team have a love for solving interesting technical challenges and influencing organizational decisions that move the business forward. You’ll be a part of a team that’s tackling difficult questions of scale, architecture, and interaction.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we’ve reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees.

New York City: $230,000 - $260,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Tuesday through Thursday, weekly.

A day in the life

Build things people love. Provide a simple, intuitive, accessible user experience for sophisticated financial advice. Our goal is to delight our customers.
Teach and learn. As a Senior Staff Engineer, we expect you to share your knowledge with less experienced engineers. Help mentor and grow our team professionally as well as learn from our leaders to level up your own talents.
Solve “impossible” problems. Take your ideas to the next level right away. We experiment, iterate, learn, and repeat.
Collaborate with purpose. You’ll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterment’s revolutionary software even better.
Create efficiency. Our software helps customers save time and money. We maintain it through quality code, pragmatic programming, and lean engineering.
Contribute to an engineering culture that fosters accountability, values constructive feedback, and celebrates wins.
Lead. Uphold our company values. Champion our engineering principles. You know how to get things done and inspire others to follow suit.

What we’re looking for

Proven track record leading successful projects that impact technologies and development workflows used by multiple teams
Expertise with React web development and broad familiarity with JavaScript open source ecosystem
Experience building and consuming GraphQL APIs (experience with Apollo Client a plus).
Experience with modern approaches for testing web applications, including end-to-end browser testing and accessibility validation (experience with Playwright and Chromatic a plus)
Expertise in at least one server-side language (Ruby, Java, C#, C++, Python, etc.)
Experience developing and maintaining design systems, including approaches for CSS shared across an organization
Experience configuring JavaScript build tooling (e.g. Vite) and monorepo tooling (e.g. pnpm, Lerna, Nx)
Experience delivering software with high production values where quality and correctness matters (experience in regulated industries a plus)
Passion for software engineering, for improving the shared developer experience, and for creating what doesn’t exist
Strong sense of how to make the tradeoffs required to ship without compromising quality
Breadth of experience across a variety of tech stacks
Strong command of fundamental algorithms and data structures
Appreciation of agility and pragmatism in software development

What being at Betterment means for you

We change lives

Join a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact, always laddering up to our mission: making people’s lives better.

We set audacious goals

We set them for the company, our customers, and ourselves—and we won’t stop until we reach them. We don’t just show up; we give our all, then celebrate our wins.

We value all perspectives

When we collaborate, we’re at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.

We invest in you with:

A competitive suite of benefits, including: medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; STD and LTD benefits, including infertility support and World Professional Association for Transgender Health approved benefits; and generous parental leave.
Flexible paid time off (and encouragement to use it!)
Meaningful opportunity for community building through our 7 Employee Resource Groups
Empowerment to own and lead change and affect the business
Dedicated professional development opportunities
Lunch from our in-house chef three days a week at our NYC headquarters

What happens next

We’ll take a few weeks to review all applications. If we’d like to spend more time with you, we’ll reach out to arrange next steps, which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.

In the interview process, we’ll look to learn more about your skills, experiences, capabilities, and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments, as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions.

On average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.

We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career, and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!

Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process, please reach out to your recruiter.

Please note that in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Come join us!

We’re an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, predisposing genetic characteristic, domestic violence victim status, arrest records, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

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