Compensation Overview

Stash is an investing app dedicated to empowering people to invest and build better lives. Stash’s plans—starting at just $3 a month—unlock access to a suite of simple, automated solutions designed to help people find security and peace of mind through investing. In 2023, the company announced the appointment of Liza Landsman as CEO, a $40M fundraise, and its Smart Portfolio managed account was named as the top-performing overall robo-advisor by Condor Capital. Stashers are 15% more financially literate than the average American, and rely on Stash for timely education, expert advice, and clear next steps to help them grow their money and achieve lifelong goals. 

Prioritizing People is one of our core values and has been key to a healthy work-life balance and a great sense of fulfillment and inclusion. We employ a true people first - hybrid model. Live and work where you feel the most productive, whether that is in your home, in an office, or a combination of both. 

Our Bank development team is looking for a Staff Software Engineer with a passion for building reliable, scalable, and performant software to support the Stash mission. After building a bank from the ground up we will be expanding our domain into the lending space. We will be building a platform to support our customers on their journey to invest and build wealth. You will join an experienced and talented team as a technical leader.You’ll partner with every department and have the flexibility to use your creative, problem-solving skills to improve the Stash process in near real-time.

What you’ll be doing:

• Architect, design, and implement internal software applications that support the Stash experience, including rich user interfaces, and robust backend services
• Partner with every department to come up with new features and applications
• Own the end to end delivery of software components from inception to production
• Work in a cross-functional agile team to deliver working software incrementally
• Instrument, test, profile, and code review software
• Continuously deploy what you build to our cloud-based infrastructure
• Set the technical direction and standards for the team

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science, Software enginnering or similar area of study
• 7+ Years of industry experience building software
• An experienced engineer with a track record of turning ideas into reliable code that others find easy to understand and modify
• Experience building reusable and scalable APIs for consumption by the wider organization
• Creative problem solver with a passion for testing, debugging, and overall code quality
• Data-driven decision maker, willing to take risks, fail fast, and iterate quickly
• Deep understanding and experience with GoLang, event-based architectures, and gRPC services
• A detail oriented engineer that takes ownership of their domain
• Growth focused colleague that will grow and mentor others

Gold Stars:

• Experience and understanding of CockroachDB and RDS
• Familiarity with Scala, EKS (K8s), Redis, Kafka, and NATs
• A majority of professional experience in GoLang

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At Stash it is our mission to help everyday Americans invest and build wealth. That includes people of all races,  genders, and abilities, so it is important to us to acknowledge and address the issues of inequality in financial services head on. 

Diversity and inclusion are essential to living our values, promoting innovation, and building the best products. Our success is directly related to our employees and we believe that our team should reflect the diversity of the customers that we serve.  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Stash is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds.

If you require any reasonable accommodations to make your application process more accessible please reach out to [email protected]. 

Invest in Yourself: 

• Equity & Stash Accounts [Invest, Retire, Custodial, Bank]                     
• Flexible PTO 
• Learning & Development Fund 
• Work from Home Stipends
• Parental Leave [Primary & Secondary]

Recognition:

• BuiltIn’s Best Places to Work (2019, 2020, 2021) 
• Forbes Fintech 50 (2019, 2020, 2021)
• Best Digital Bank, Finovate Awards (2020)
• Tearsheet Challenge Awards, Best Banking Card Product - Stock-Back® Card, 2020
• LendIt Fintech Innovator of the Year (2019 & 2020)

Salary Range: $159,408 - $236,160

The base salary range represents the reasonably anticipated low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience and competencies, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data for companies of our size and industry.

**No recruiters, please**