Staff Software Engineer

Austin, TX, United States

WHO ARE WE?

There are over 30M small businesses in the United States, but only a tiny fraction of them have a workplace savings program in place. As the savings gap in the country widens, its imperative that every worker has access to and participates in their companys savings program, such as a 401(k) or 403(b). We believe that American workers should have easy access to an inexpensive, flexible, and intuitive solution to save for a brighter future.

Unfortunately, prior to Vestwell, small businesses have been neglected and underserved, with expensive, inflexible, poorly designed offerings built on old, mainframe software. Vestwell is changing that, starting with rebuilding the core infrastructure for the modern era.

Vestwells north star is to be the engine behind a $30T industry, powering all payroll-deducted workplace savings programs for small-to-midsize businesses, such as 401(k), 403(b), IRA, emergency savings accounts (ESA), health savings accounts (HSA), 529 college savings, and alike.

Vestwells focus is to build the most flexible, powerful workplace savings and investment platform, delivered through the hands and minds of their financial services partners with the help of payroll provider partners. The team at Vestwell makes the hard stuff look easy, by combining the expertise of financial advice with the sophistication of a technology provider.

As a result, workplace providers are able to bestow the advice and solution employers and employees have been asking for, while growing and scaling along the way. Employers get a cost-effective solution designed for their needs without all the headaches, and employees get a user-friendly portal that helps them achieve their long-term saving goals.

WHY VESTWELL?

With backing from leading FinTech investors, as well as a growing team of dedicated professionals of strong industry pedigree, Vestwell is at the forefront of a much-needed change in a 40-year old industry. Our team believes in the mission weve set out to achieve and we are working hard to get there. Were ambitious, honest, thoughtful, and fun.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

The Engineering team is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer with extensive knowledge on C#, experienced with product feature development and architecture who can be effective on all levels of our engineering stack, and is willing to play all necessary roles such as architect, tech lead, code reviewer, Agile coach, and mentor.

In short, we want to bring experienced Engineers in to make key decisions regarding technology, architecture, and softwareYoure 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Create and maintain optimal software supporting Product initiatives and features using C#

Establish and enforce best practices in code to build sophisticated software that adheres to common programming principles

Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product and Operations teams to support their Product development needs

Review requirements and translate into an executable development plan, breaking down projects to enable iterative and agile implementation

Provide production support and train junior engineers

Proactively drive the vision for architecture and design across multiple product verticals

Manage the delivery of high impact development solutions

REQUIREMENTS

The Necessities

8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer

Experience scaling and managing 3+ person teams

Extensive professional experience in C#, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems

Advanced knowledge Agile practices

Extensive development experience

Experience mentoring more junior engineers

Experience with relational databases

Data Architecture experience

Experience with AWS cloud services

Ability to triage and assign work

Has experience working with and leading remote contractors

Demonstrated experience with Software Architecture and Design

Experience working with and supporting cross-functional teams

Extensive use of Git, preferably Github

Building pipelines in Jenkins

The Extras

Experience with UI technologies such as React and Angular

Fintech experience

Startup experience

OUR CULTURE

We take a modern Agile approach to web development, trusting cross-functional squads to make bottom up decisions in terms of roadmap prioritization, technical choices, and day-to-day processes. We want squads to be first class citizens, working as a team to define their roadmap and prioritization, that follows best practices in development, automation testing, deploying, and support.

The expected salary range for this position is $160K - $180K with a bonus variable. Please note that salary bands are based on NY and other similar metro areas and may differ based on where the role is ultimately hired.

OUR BENEFITS

Were 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 an open vacation policy. We have adopted a remote-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.

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