Staff Engineer, Financial Engines Jobs

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Location:
United States

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

245000.00 - 275000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

This is a highly impactful, hands-on, senior level technical leadership role where the successful candidate will drive the technical direction for our organization of over 20 engineers across 4 agile teams. This includes providing technical guidance and mentorship to our senior engineers and technical leads. The role involves defining and refining our architecture, processes and best practices across our organization. As this is a hands-on role, the successful candidate will collaborate with domain experts, technical leads and engineers to design, build, test, and own systems and processes for servicing 401(k) plans and making our customers happy. As reliability and performance are key to earning our customers’ trust, the role includes owning the overall robustness of our area and extending our system’s reliability, scalability, observability and maintainability.

Job Responsibility:

Define forward looking architectures through creation of designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs value and gaining buy in from key technical, product and business stakeholders
Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans and roadmaps that align with the product vision of our organization and in conjunction with technical leads
Coach and mentor senior level engineers in our organization to help raise the bar in innovation, efficiency and technical capability
Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust, higher performance and require less human intervention
Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
Raise the bar of our team’s standards resulting in cleaner, well documented and higher quality code
Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering systems that are fast, horizontally scalable and reliable
Speak up and advocate for forward looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental

Requirements:

Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building and maintaining large scale backend software products and systems
Expert at designing and building modular distributed applications to support an extremely rapidly growing customer base(100x)
Solid understanding of the current landscape of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient usage of compute, storage, network and virtualization technologies. (preferably AWS)
You have delivered large scale backend systems including ingesting and processing data at significant scale, managed elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures
You have experience migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems and databases while maintaining high reliability and availability
Strong desire to learn, exchange feedback and grow

Nice to have:

You enjoy influencing cross-team standards, practices, and tools by modeling behaviors and demonstrating outcomes
You can clearly articulate the business benefits that result from technical decisions
You enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow technically. You often have become a key go-to person in your company, even on projects outside your project area

What we offer:

A great 401(k) plan: Our own! Our 401(k) includes a dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4% of compensation (immediately vested) and $0 plan fees
Top-of-the-line health plans, as well as dental and vision insurance
Competitive time off and parental leave
Addition Wealth: Unlimited access to digital tools, financial professionals, and a knowledge center to help you understand your equity and support your financial wellness
Lyra: Enhanced Mental Health Support for Employees and dependents
Carrot: Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits
Candidly: Student loan resource to help you and your family plan, borrow, and repay student debt
Monthly work-from-home stipend
quarterly lifestyle stipend
Engaging team-building experiences, ranging from virtual social events to team offsites, promoting collaboration and camaraderie

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 09, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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