Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NerdWallet is hiring a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer for its Consumer Banking organization. The role builds and improves high-performance financial marketplace shopping experiences across the front end and back end, with a focus on product quality, search visibility, scalability, and experimentation.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and evolve React/Next.js front-end applications that serve millions of monthly users
- Improve Core Web Vitals, accessibility, and technical SEO to drive discoverability and engagement
- Partner with product, SEO, and content teams to launch, test, and iterate on high-impact shopping experiences
- Design and implement backend APIs and services that power dynamic, personalized content, rapid experimentation and partner integrations
- Collaborate on platform-wide initiatives: performance, observability, A/B testing infrastructure, and front-end developer experience
- Contribute to shared UI components and design systems, helping scale high-quality UX across pages
- Use AI coding tools and spec-driven workflows as part of your day-to-day, contributing to the team's growing dev harness and automations
- Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and team technical discussions to help raise the engineering bar
Skills
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful contributions across both front-end and back-end systems
- Deep experience in TypeScript, React.js, and Next.js or a related isomorphic framework (Astro, Gatsby, etc.)
- Strong product and UX sensibility with a keen eye for performance, usability, and responsive design
- Hands-on experience building and consuming RESTful and GraphQL APIs, integrating with databases (SQL/NoSQL), and writing full-stack features
- Hands-on experience with AI coding tools (e.g. Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code) as part of your regular development workflow
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP, Vercel) and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, observability)
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset
- Experience working in public-facing, high visibility shopping marketplaces
- Background in FinTech, financial services, or other regulated industries
- Hands-on experience with web vitals, lazy loading, caching strategies, or third-party analytics tools
- A technical blog, open-source contributions, or portfolio site showcasing your work
Benefits
- Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents
- Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown
- New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care
- Mental health support
- Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests
- Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
- Monthly Wellness Stipend
- Cell Phone Stipend
- Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend)
- Work from home equipment stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends)
- Co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends)
- Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities
- Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments
- Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction
- Take 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter
- Donate to your favorite causes with a company match
- 401K with 4% company match
- Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools
- Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar
- Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums
- Remote role based in the U.S.
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