Tech Lead Manager, Consumer Facing Web Products

The role

You will lead the Consumer Facing Web Product team as a hands-on player coach. You will manage 3-4 engineers and drive technical direction for high-traffic web shopping experiences using a full-stack of Next.js, React, GraphQL, and Node.js.

What you will do

• Own technical direction and people outcomes for the team.
• Drive architecture, technical decisions, planning, and milestones.
• Build and evolve the team's AI dev harness and agentic automations.
• Develop engineers' AI-era skills including prompting and spec-writing.
• Manage and develop engineers through 1:1s, feedback, and growth plans.
• Partner with engineering leadership on technical initiatives.
• Contribute to platform stability through monitoring and incident management.
• Ensure high standards of technical excellence and codebase quality.
• Collaborate with SEO, Paid Marketing, Product, and Data stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with a strong background as a hands-on Technical Lead.
• Expertise in TypeScript, React and Node.js, with experience in additional modern languages.
• Strong experience with modern front-end frameworks such as Next.js and React.js.
• Understanding of web performance, Core Web Vitals, and technical SEO.
• Experience architecting and building back-end APIs and microservices.
• Strong understanding of database systems (both SQL and NoSQL).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices, particularly in financial services.
• Experience in observability and running production applications at scale.
• Hands-on experience with AI development tools and advanced AI-enabled development workflows.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Experience with integrating Machine Learning systems, personalization pipelines, and data-driven experimentation.
• Domain knowledge in finance and shopping marketplaces.
• Understanding of accessibility best practices and a keen eye for usability and user experience.
• Familiarity with paid and organic search strategies.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision health care plans
• Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown
• New Parent Leave
• Mental health support
• Paid sabbatical after 5 years
• Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly contribution
• Monthly Wellness Stipend
• Cell Phone Stipend
• Wifi Stipend (remote only)
• Work from home equipment stipend (remote only)
• Co-working space subsidy (remote only)
• 401K with 4% company match

About the company

NerdWallet is on a mission to bring clarity to all of life's financial decisions. They have built an inclusive, flexible, and candid culture.