Senior Software Engineer

The role

You will build front-end tools in Next.js, React.js and Astro.js with WordPress that power SEO-optimized customer pages. You will focus on performance, Core Web Vitals, accessibility, back-end APIs and mentoring engineers.

What you will do

• Improve performance, SEO and user engagement on the highest-traffic organic pages
• Partner with product, Organic Growth and data teams to run experiments and measure impact
• Drive technical initiatives for performance, observability, scalability, security and developer experience
• Contribute to platform stability through monitoring, troubleshooting and incident management
• Maintain a high-quality codebase and modernize the stack
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in coding, testing and architecture
• Conduct code reviews for quality, performance and standards
• Keep up with trends in tech and finance through continuous learning
• Write production-quality code and work on back-end APIs and Machine Learning integrations

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years in software engineering with a strong background in client-focused full stack development
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Expertise in ES6, TypeScript, Node.js and the web platform
• Proficient in other modern languages such as Rust, Go, Python
• Expert in modern front-end frameworks such as Astro.js, Nuxt.js, Next.js, React.js and Tailwind
• Deep knowledge of Web Performance, Core Web Vitals and Technical SEO
• Passion for design, usability and user experience, with understanding of accessibility best practices
• Experience with observability and running a production website or application at scale
• Experience with database systems, microservices, RESTful APIs, IAC, CI/CD and cloud infrastructure (Vercel, AWS, GCP or Azure)

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision health care plans for employees and dependents
• Flexible vacation time off, 11 holidays and holiday company shutdown
• New Parent Leave
• Mental health support
• Paid sabbatical after 5 years
• Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA with monthly company contribution
• Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend and Wifi Stipend for remote employees
• Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy for remote employees
• Employee Resource Groups, hackathons and company-wide events
• 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter with donation company match
• 401K with 4% company match
• Early access to new financial products and tools

Before you apply

• The role is for U.S.-based remote work
• NerdWallet participates in E-Verify for all U.S. locations
• NerdWallet will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history under California, San Francisco and Los Angeles fair chance laws

About the company

NerdWallet is on a mission to bring clarity to all of life's financial decisions. Its CKD Clients Engineering team builds growth tools that help content and marketing teams launch high-traffic pages at scale.