Sr. Software Engineer
Betterment (View all Jobs)
Betterment HQ - New York City
Interview Process
1. Phone interview 2. On-site pair programming to simulate a Betterment feature build.
Salary
$170,000 - $195,000
Programming Languages Mentioned
JavaScript, C#, Ruby, Java, C++, Python
About Betterment
Betterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making people’s lives better. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (three days/ week in-office).
About the role
As a Sr. Engineer on the Frontend Platform team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the shared mobile infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling that power Betterment’s React web applications. You’ll play a key role in shaping the developer experience for engineers across the company, ensuring that teams can deliver features quickly, safely, and sustainably.
Platform engineering at Betterment enables engineers across the organization to ship great code with confidence. Our team works closely with product engineers to deliver cross-cutting capabilities, infrastructure, and frameworks that unlock faster delivery while maintaining quality. We tackle the most interesting technical challenges of scale, architecture, and developer experience to create an app platform that delights both our customers and our engineers.
This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees.
- New York City: $170,000 - $195,000
We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Tuesday through Thursday, weekly.
A day in the life
- Build and maintain the shared JavaScript/React frameworks, libraries, and developer tooling that product teams use to deliver customer-facing features to our web apps
- Partner with engineers across product squads to improve reliability, performance, and security of our web apps
- Lead medium-to-large scale platform initiatives, balancing tradeoffs to ship high-quality solutions continuously and iteratively
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and fellow engineers to ensure platform capabilities align with business and customer needs
- Mentor junior engineers, contribute to an environment of open communication, and foster a culture of teaching and learning
- Identify and address strategic technical challenges that have long-term impact across Betterment’s engineering organization
- Contribute to an engineering culture that values clean code, rigorous testing, pragmatic programming, and continuous improvement
What we’re looking for
- Expertise with React web development and familiarity with JavaScript open source ecosystem
- Experience building and consuming GraphQL APIs (experience with Apollo Client a plus)
- Experience with modern approaches for testing web applications, including end-to-end browser testing and accessibility validation (experience with Playwright and Chromatic a plus)
- Experience with design systems, including approaches for CSS shared across an organization
- Experience with JavaScript build tooling (e.g. Vite) and monorepo tooling (e.g. pnpm, Lerna, Nx)
- Experience participating in projects that impact technologies and development workflows used by multiple teams
- Expertise in at least one server-side language (Ruby, Java, C#, C++, Python, etc.) Ruby on Rails experience a plus
- Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, and performance considerations in web apps
- Ability to lead projects, drive adoption of platform improvements, and make pragmatic tradeoffs while maintaining quality
- Collaborative mindset and excitement to partner with teammates across engineering, design, and product
- Passion for software engineering, developer experience, and creating what doesn’t yet exist
- Appreciation of agility and pragmatism in software development
- The ability to thrive in a startup-like environment, balancing autonomy with collaboration
What being at Betterment means for you
We change lives
Join a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact, always laddering up to our mission: making people's lives better.
We set audacious goals
We set them for the company, our customers, and ourselves—and we won’t stop until we reach them. We don’t just show up; we give our all, then celebrate our wins.
We value all perspectives
When we collaborate, we're at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.
We invest in you with:
- A competitive suite of benefits, including: medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; STD and LTD benefits, including infertility support and World Professional Association for Transgender Health approved benefits; and generous parental leave.
- Flexible paid time off (and encouragement to use it!)
- Meaningful opportunity for community building through our 7 Employee Resource Groups
- Empowerment to own and lead change and affect the business
- Dedicated professional development opportunities
- Lunch from our in-house chef three days a week at our NYC headquarters
What happens next
We’ll take a few weeks to review all applications. If we’d like to spend more time with you, we’ll reach out to arrange next steps, which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.
In the interview process, we’ll look to learn more about your skills, experiences, capabilities, and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments, as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions.
On average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.
We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career, and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!
Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process, please reach out to your recruiter.
Please note that in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Come join us!
We’re an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, predisposing genetic characteristic, domestic violence victim status, arrest records, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
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Betterment participates in E-Verify. We will provide the Social Security Administration, and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security, with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Please note that we do not use this information to pre-screen job applicants.
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