Senior Manager, Engineering – AI-Forward Platform Builder

🕒 May 13

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $176k - $330k / year

⏰ Full Time

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NerdWallet

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2009

💰 Secondary Market on 2021-05

NerdWallet is on a mission to help provide clarity for consumers and SMBs so they can make financial decisions with confidence. We work hard to cultivate an award-winning culture in which our Nerds can realize this mission, and we pride ourselves on the programs we’ve created to positively impact the lives of our consumers, our Nerds, and our wider world.

📋 Description

• Lead a small, high-ownership team of engineers, product managers, and designers • Serve as a hands-on technical force multiplier: architect systems, prototype with emerging AI tools, and model what great building looks like in practice • Identify and deploy AI and automation technologies, including LLMs, agents, and AI-assisted development workflows, to dramatically accelerate how your team ships • Own the roadmap alongside Product and business partners; translate fuzzy business goals into focused, executable technical strategy • Drive pragmatic, high-leverage engineering decisions: choose the right tool for the job, not the trendiest one, and know the difference • Navigate organizational complexity with confidence. You know how to build consensus, move initiatives through cross-functional processes, and get things done without losing your edge • Balance the tension between speed and stability for high-traffic, mission-critical financial systems • Cultivate a culture of curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning • Coach and develop engineers and PMs; give direct, useful feedback and create real growth opportunities at every level • Ensure systems owned by the team meet availability, performance, and security standards with a practical, risk-calibrated approach

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building and shipping in a startup or early-stage environment • 3+ years managing an engineering team, ideally a cross-functional one including product and/or design • 3+ years experience in a Staff level engineering position • Hands on full-stack software engineering skills with experience in modern web systems (NextJS, TypeScript, AWS a strong plus) • Demonstrated history of building and deploying AI-powered systems or integrating LLMs into production products - not just experimenting, but shipping • Genuine hacker mentality: you find the fastest, smartest path to a working solution and have the judgment to know when "good enough" is right and when it isn't • Strong business acumen - you think about ROI, user impact, and revenue, not just technical elegance • Proven ability to operate effectively inside a larger, more process-heavy organization without losing the startup bias for action • Experience building scalable, reliable systems with a pragmatic approach to architecture and technical debt • Strong communicator who can translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence without authority • Comfortable with the compliance and regulatory realities of financial products (or eager to get up to speed quickly)

🏖️ 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, and Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend) • Work from home equipment stipend and 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 • Our Nerds love to make an impact by paying it forward – Take 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter and 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