Senior Software Engineer

SmartAsset is on a mission to help people get better Financial Advice. Our vision is to be the web’s go to resource for financial advice powering the largest marketplace connecting consumers with financial advisors and financial products.

We have raised $110 Million in Series D Funding, bringing our valuation to over $1 Billion Today, SmartAsset reaches more than 100 million people each month through its personal finance content, custom tools and personalized calculators. SmartAsset was also named to Y Combinator's list of Top 100 Companies of all time and Forbes' list of America's Best Startup Employers in 2020.

SmartAsset has been featured in hundreds of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, TechCrunch, The New York Times, CNBC, FOX Business, The Washington Post, U.S. News World Report, TIME, Reuters, Businessweek and Barron’s.  

You’ll be working with a new and growing team that is responsible for the content management architecture at SmartAsset. This team is working to build out the future content management systems to create, serve, and innovate on the financial information that attracts our users and has built our brand. Your role on this team will involve working on both front and backend services as we build and migrate our new content management system while working closely with our organizational architects to design the future of how we serve content.

• Engage in a highly collaborative team environment where you will deliver software following best-practice principles using Agile methodology
• Build and maintain full-stack enterprise technology solutions that scale and represent our brand to our users.
• Partner with our Product team to identify opportunities to streamline how we create, structure, and deliver content.
• Integrate with third party tools and our internal Data teams to facilitate critical feature experimentation and sharpen the content we provide.
• Partner with our architects to design an enterprise Content Management architecture that can grow and serve the needs of our business for years to come
• Identify opportunities to adopt new technologies or team processes that can improve the quality and efficiency of the software we build and deliver.

• 5+ years experience building full stack web applications. 
• Experience leading your team designing solutions, and being the decision maker when it comes to building and leading the execution of a technical plan for a product or projects.
• Mentoring team members and experience using various techniques helping them and yourself grow.
• Experience identifying risks, figuring out mitigations and navigating the organization to ensure risks are escalated and mitigations agreed upon.
• Strong experience building, shipping, scaling and operating Java web applications
• Strong experience with ReactJS and NodeJS frameworks and building modular content for the modern web.
• Proficient with SQL and comfortable working with relational databases.
• Strong knowledge of Git or other source control tools.
• Experience designing complex cloud solutions based on AWS and the ability to plan the implementation of these solutions.
• Demonstrated critical and strategic thinking about business, products, and technical challenges to stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and familiarity working in an agile environment.
• Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment and the ability to be cross-functional. 
• Passion for technology and working with a team to continuously improve each other, our tools, and our processes.

• Experience using or integrating headless WordPress or other Content Management tools.
• Knowledge or experience with the NextJS framework and GraphQL.
• Experience working with A/B testing tools such as Optimizely.
• Familiarity with Terraform or other IaC tools.
• Experience with ad serving platforms such as DFP

• All roles at SmartAsset are currently and will remain remote - flexibility to work from anywhere in the contiguous US.
• Medical, Dental, Vision - multiple packages available based on your individualized needs
• Life/AD&D Insurance - basic coverage at 100% company paid, additional supplemental available 
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• FSA: Medical and Dependent Care 
• 401K 
• Equity packages for each role
• Time Off:  PTO, 3 Month Paid Parental Leave,  Secondary Caregiver Leave
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Employee Resource Groups supporting our underrepresented communities
• Pet Insurance
• Home Office Stipend