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NerdWallet

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2009

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 Secondary Market on 2021-05

Finance • Fintech

NerdWallet is on a mission to help provide clarity for consumers and SMBs so they can make financial decisions with confidence. The company prides itself on cultivating an award-winning culture that fosters equity and inclusivity, allowing its employees, known as 'Nerds', to thrive. It invests heavily in its workforce through professional development and community engagement, focusing on helping the underserved and unbanked populations through its Corporate Social Responsibility programs. NerdWallet has been recognized for its positive workplace culture and commitment to making a tangible difference in the lives of consumers.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical direction and architecture for NerdWallet financial guidance integrations with third-party AI assistants • Architect how guidance is packaged, exposed, and rendered, including tool and protocol design and in-conversation UI • Write production code for new integrations and prototype emerging platform capabilities • Define reusable abstractions, contracts, and patterns across multiple AI platforms • Track changing platform protocols, SDKs, review processes, and policies and incorporate them into roadmaps and architecture • Define evaluation and testing strategies, including automated evaluations, regression suites, and end-to-end tests • Partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance on authentication, consent, sensitive data, and financial compliance • Set standards for monitoring, latency, cost, and incident response and help resolve production issues • Lead design reviews, establish coding and architecture standards, and conduct code reviews • Mentor engineers across FTE and contractor teams • Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Managers on priorities, effort, risk, and technical investments • Analyze usage and performance data to guide integration decisions • Report to the Director, Engineering

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering • At least 3+ years at the Staff level • Deep hands-on experience building and operating production backend systems • Track record of architecting complex systems end to end • Experience leading teams through difficult technical problems • Experience establishing engineering best practices and mentoring engineers • Hands-on production experience with LLMs, including tool use/function calling, MCP or similar protocols, prompt and context design, retrieval (RAG), evals, and non-deterministic output • Advanced knowledge of a modern TypeScript stack, such as Node.js, React, GraphQL, Postgres, and Redis • Ability to evaluate unfamiliar codebases, SDKs, and vendor tools • Experience designing APIs and shared services, including versioning and backward compatibility • Experience building on third-party platforms or ecosystems with external constraints and review processes • Strong understanding of authentication and authorization patterns, such as OAuth • Security best practices for handling sensitive data • Comfort with early-stage, zero-to-one work • Strong communication skills for explaining AI system behavior, tradeoffs, and risk • Preferred: experience building apps, connectors, or agents for major AI assistant platforms • Preferred: experience shipping AI features in regulated industries • Preferred: experience with AWS, CI/CD, containerization, and LLM observability • Preferred: experience mentoring blended FTE and vendor/contractor teams

🏖️ 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 • Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution • Monthly Wellness Stipend • Cell Phone Stipend • Wifi Stipend for remote Nerds • Work from home equipment stipend for remote Nerds • Co-working space subsidy for remote Nerds • Employee Resource Groups • Hackathons and team events • Company-wide events • 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter • Company match for charitable donations • 401K with 4% company match • Early access to new financial products and tools • Financial wellness guidance and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner through Northstar • Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums • Equity offered