Betterment · 1 day ago
Staff Engineer, Backend
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$210K/yr - $235K/yr
10+ years expBetterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions. As a Staff Engineer in the Broker Dealer organization, you'll help define the technical vision, improve system stability, and mentor engineers while scaling systems to support the company's growth.
FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechImpact InvestingRetirement
Responsibilities
Drive the technical vision and long-term strategy of the team
Build innovative trading and money-movement technology that empowers people to make the most of their money, so they can live better
Solve “impossible” problems. Take your ideas to the next level right away. We experiment, iterate, learn, and repeat
Collaborate with purpose. Spread knowledge across the organization, leveling up engineering practices and mentoring other engineers
Gain trust through transparency. We believe in taking the guesswork out of investing. That means a consistent experience for our customers — you’ll build the tools to make it possible
Create efficiency. Our software helps customers save time and money. We maintain it through clean code, pragmatic programming, and lean engineering
Work with people who care. Half of our team is made up of engineers but we believe everyone at Betterment is an engineer with their own tools. We’re a group of talented professionals who pride ourselves on what we do. We’re smart, innovative, energetic, and lots of fun
Qualification
Required
10+ years professional experience in at least one object-oriented language, strong plus for Java experience
7+ years professional experience with SQL and relational databases, including designing schemas and writing detailed SQL queries
A strong command of fundamental algorithms and data structures
Experience scaling and optimizing in large-scale distributed systems
Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining core backend software components
Proven ability to lead and manage projects that span one or more teams, considering tradeoffs to ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining high standards of quality, performance and security
An understanding of how to make the tradeoffs required to ship without compromising quality
Knowing that investments in developing solid tests pays for itself several times over
Appreciation for agility and pragmatism in software development
Benefits
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
401(k) with employer match
Flexible PTO policy
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
Generous parental leave
Lunch from our in-house chef at our NYC headquarters
Company
Betterment
Betterment is an online investment company that offers investing and retirement solutions for their current clients and clients-to-be.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (1)
2022 (1)
2020 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$435MKey Investors
TreasuryORIX Growth CapitalSharesPost Investment Management
2021-09-29Series F· $60M
2021-09-29Debt Financing· $100M
2021-04-30Series Unknown
Leadership Team
John Mileham
CTO
Jon Stein
Founder and Board Member
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