Staff Software Engineer

Posted 4 Days Ago
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Austin, TX
Senior level
Fintech • Professional Services • Social Impact • Software • Financial Services
At Vestwell, we are on a mission to democratize access to savings programs for all Americans.
The Role
The Staff Software Engineer will collaborate with engineers and product teams to develop services and features, create architecture designs, build REST APIs, conduct code reviews, provide production support, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires a strong understanding of Scala and functional programming, SQL databases, and RESTful APIs along with experience in automation testing.
Summary Generated by Built In

Vestwell is the financial technology company powering the new savings economy. The New York City-based fintech platform redefines how people save for the critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare savings needs. Today, Vestwell enables over 350,000 businesses and nearly 1.5 Million active savers, with over $30 billion in assets saved across all 50 United States. 

Vestwell offers a range of products, including workplace-delivered retirement plans, employer-offered student loan repayment benefits, and various savings accounts for education, emergencies, and individuals with disabilities.

Vestwell's platform serves a diverse clientele, including financial advisers, employers, third-party administrators, financial institutions, payroll providers, government agencies, and individual savers. To learn more, visit vestwell.com

Who Are We Looking For?

The Engineering team is seeking an experienced Scala Engineer with 7+ years of experience, who can be effective on all levels of our application stack, and is willing to participate in all development activities such as implementation, design, test and code reviews. 

You’re a great fit for our team if you can balance detail-oriented tasks with long term strategy and scale initiatives. Most of all, you must be passionate about what you create and about the impact it can have. That matters to us, a lot.

What Will You Be Doing?

  • Collaborate closely with other Engineers, Architects and the rest of the Vestwell team to build new services and features
  • Create and own Architecture diagrams and designs
  • Work with both Engineering and Product teams to drive solution design
  • Build REST APIs and services
  • Participate in peer code reviews
  • Provide production support and train the junior engineers
  • Own entire features from a technology perspective

Requirements

The Necessities

  • Excellent understanding of Scala and functional programming
  • Architecting, modifying, and working with SQL-based Databases
  • Developing, maintaining, and supporting automation test suites
  • Experience building, specifying, and consuming RESTful APIs
  • Demonstrated expertise with unit and integration testing
  • Experience with Git
  • Working closely with Product, QA, and other Engineers, in a cross functional vertical team, and a willingness to play any role necessary within that team

The Extras

  • Node, React, and other JS technologies
  • Advanced knowledge of common architecture patterns and anti-patterns
  • Embraces a design and documentation culture
  • Devops or sysops background, especially with Docker, and AWS services
  • An understanding of SRE best practices, such as post-mortems, logging, alerting, and toil reduction
  • CS Degree

The expected salary range for this position is $165K-180K for New York,  $156,750K-171K for Austin, and $148,500K-162K for Phoenix

OUR BENEFITS

We’re a growth stage startup with lots of exciting milestones ahead. We value health and wellness at Vestwell and in addition to a dedicated Employee Wellbeing Committee, we offer competitive health coverage and generous vacation offering. We have adopted a hybrid office policy, but all employees are welcome at our bright, comfortable office with many workspace options in midtown Manhattan so everyone has a setting that is the most productive for them. We provide our team with all the equipment they need (plus a few perks!) to work effectively remotely. Oh, and naturally we have a great 401(k) plan!

OUR PROCESS
It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 - 2 conversations about Vestwell, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but the usual next steps are a skill or experience screen (e.g. a coding interview for an Engineer, a portfolio review for a Designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in-person interview panel after that if the screens go well. Before making an offer, our interview process concludes with a references check stage for your recruiter to meet with a current or former supervisor and peer. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.

For your awareness you will only receive correspondence from [email protected] any other domain not ending in Vestwell.com is not our Recruitment team.

Vestwell’s Privacy Policy. Attention California residents: In the course of conducting our business and complying with federal, state, and local government regulations governing such matters as employment, tax, insurance, etc., we must collect Personal Information from you. Should you accept employment with Vestwell you may view our California Privacy Rights Act here: Vestwell’s California Privacy Rights Policy.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
450 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Vestwell is the engine powering modern-day workplace savings and investing programs, such as 401(k) and 403(b) plans. Leading financial institutions, state governments, and embedded financial affiliate groups can seamlessly utilize Vestwell’s innovative and scalable platform to provide flexible, cost-effective, and user-friendly workplace savings programs to their small business clients and individual savers.

Vestwell is at the forefront of change in the $33T+ workplace savings industry. Through our platform and industry partners, we are on a mission to democratize access to savings programs for the 30M+ small businesses across the country.

Why Work With Us

Vestwell has backing from leading fintech and strategic investors and a growing team of superstar professionals. Our mission is to provide a unified workplace savings platform, while closing the savings gap across the country. It's a massive, complex challenge to solve, and we have an incredible team to do it.

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