Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Banking & Credit Cards

Nerd Wallet

Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$152,000–$282,000 / yr
Posted
3 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $217k
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This role pays more than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $145,043–$214,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $217k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

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About Nerd Wallet

NerdWallet is a personal finance platform that helps consumers make smarter financial decisions by comparing financial products like credit cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, and investment accounts. Industry: Financial Technology & Personal Finance

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Banking & Credit Cards

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The Staff Software Engineer in Consumer Engineering is a hands-on leader responsible for driving the execution of complex technical initiatives across the full stack, setting engineering standards and pace. This role involves leading technical design and architecture, mentoring engineers through code reviews and paired programming, and ensuring production reliability by implementing observability tools and managing incidents. The ideal candidate has 8-10+ years of experience as a Full-stack web developer with expertise in React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Next.js, along with hands-on experience in cloud services like Vercel and AWS. They should be proficient in building REST APIs and GraphQL graphs, familiar with AI software development tools, and have a track record of ownership, accountability, and data-driven decision-making. This role focuses on the Consumer Credit Cards product area, requiring deep knowledge of web performance and observability at scale.

Skills

React TypeScript Node.js Next.js DataDog AWS Vercel GraphQL Infrastructure as Code CI/CD Docker Kubernetes Terraform Python PostgreSQL

What you'll do

  • Lead technical design and architecture for complex features, ensuring solutions are maintainable, scalable, and production-ready.
  • Own production reliability by setting up observability tooling and managing alerts for both technical and business failure events.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and documentation to improve the team's technical best practices.
  • Collaborate with Engineering Manager and Product Manager to roadmap large tracks of work and break down business requirements into technical tasks.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to respond to incidents and serve stakeholder needs via PagerDuty.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of full-stack web development experience with a frontend bias.
  • Expertise in React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Next.js.
  • Hands-on experience with observability tools like DataDog.
  • Deep knowledge of web performance optimization techniques.
  • Experience building REST APIs, GraphQL graphs, and cloud services backends.
  • Proven ability to mentor engineers through code reviews and pair programming.

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