About Us

Estate planning is vital for anyone who wants to ensure their loved ones are cared for when they’re gone. But traditional estate planning is broken. It’s confusing, expensive, and tedious, and it’s often done without regard to a person’s financial plan. Vanilla is here to change all that. We are reinventing estate planning for financial advisors, attorneys, and their clients. We’re transforming it into an ongoing conversation, where dense legal documents are brought to life through easy-to-understand visualizations, and considered  in concert with clients’ financial plans and evolving life milestones and goals.

Vanilla is the world’s first estate advisory platform, built by advisors and estate professionals to help deliver a modern, visual estate planning experience to their clients. Harnessing a purpose-built AI engine called VAI, the Vanilla platform provides valuable insights to advisors and attorneys while demystifying the planning process for clients at all levels of wealth. Vanilla supports the entire estate planning process, including understanding client goals and current plans, visualizing the plan, and strategizing on taxes. Clients can even create trusts, healthcare directives, powers of attorney, and more through Vanilla. The Vanilla platform enables advisors, planners, and attorneys to foster stronger relationships, achieve greater retention, and help their clients build meaningful legacies.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our AI team, a dynamic and collaborative group that is excited about leveraging AI and new technologies. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work collaboratively with engineering and subject matter experts to find innovative and disruptive uses of AI to streamline (or replace) workflows.

This role is a remote position, you must be based out of one of the following states: CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TX, UT, VA, WA, or WA D.C.

Responsibilities 

• Lead the development of new AI-powered features and enhancements across our platform.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software with a focus on integrating AI-driven solutions.

• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to align on product goals and deliver high-quality, AI-enabled solutions.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship, promoting best practices in code quality, testing, and deployment.

• Design and implement scalable and secure architectures, leveraging AWS services for optimized performance and cost-efficiency.

• Embrace a learning mindset, staying up-to-date with emerging technologies, especially in AI, and integrating them into your work.

• Adhere to professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8+ years relevant work experience.

• Proficiency in React/Javascript – Typescript experience is a plus.

• Proficiency in Ruby/Ruby on Rails.

• Experience with at least one modern programming language such as NodeJS, Python, Rust, Go, Java, or others.

• Experience with GraphQL and APIs.

• Expertise in one or more major public clouds, preferably AWS.

• Demonstrated interest and ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies, especially in AI.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the desire to push the boundaries of what’s possible with emerging tech and AI solutions.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off policy and 12 company-wide paid holidays 

• Parental leave, 4 weeks for all full-time employees and up to 12 weeks for birthing parents

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits coverage for employees and their families 

• 401k match that can be initiated immediately upon hire 

• Budget for learning & development, health & wellness, and home office setup 

The salary range for this role is $160,000 to $190,000. Our compensation packages also include a performance based bonus and equity.  Compensation is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Vanilla Technologies Inc. (dba "Vanilla") provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Vanilla participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.