As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will develop web functionalities, maintain backend services, and ensure platform reliability while collaborating on core web initiatives.
Greenlight is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. We proudly serve more than 6 million parents and kids with our award-winning banking app for families. With Greenlight, parents can automate allowance, manage chores, set flexible spend controls, and invest for their family’s future. Kids and teens learn to earn, save, spend wisely, and invest.
At Greenlight, we believe every child should have the opportunity to become financially healthy and happy. It’s no small task, and that’s why we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better, brighter future for the next generation depends on it.
Greenlight is looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer focused for our Web Core team. This team focuses on core web initiatives including bringing the core Greenlight functionality on the web for the first time and functioning as a horizontal platform team to support other web teams. This includes setting standards, defining best practices, building common libraries and mentoring other web developers. You will be expected to also make contributions to our backend services as required to accomplish the team deliverables.
This role reports to a Sr Engineering Manager.
Your day-to-day:
- Product development: Assisting in building new experiences for the Greenlight website. You'll collaborate with domain teams, product managers, and designers to implement different parts of the Greenlight mobile application experience on the web, learning from senior engineers throughout the process.
- Platform: As a member of the web core team, you will contribute to supporting all web development within Greenlight. This includes providing support for web teams, defining standards, best practices and determining technologies
- Scaling and maintaining our backend services: You'll assist in the evolution of our backend services to support new feature requests and our growing user base, learning about scalable systems and maintenance best practices.
- Improving the reliability and availability of the platform: You will contribute to efforts to enhance the reliability and availability of the platform that supports our families and partners.
- Working in a strong, collaborative team to quickly deliver high-quality web products.
- Working closely with product and design teams, you will help implement incremental features, gaining experience in balancing new development with technical debt.
What you’ll bring to the team:
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 3+ years software development experience
- The ability to context switch frequently in a fast-paced environment
- An eye towards performance, scalability, and observability
- Experience building single page applications using a modern framework
- Experience building REST apisRecent experience building backend services using node.js.
- Understanding of how to execute well on the build/measure/learn process and lean startup skills
Technologies we use:
- React, NextJS, Remix, Tailwind, Cypress
- REST, Express
- AWS, Kubernetes (EKS)
- Kotlin experience preferred
Work perks at Greenlight:
- Medical, dental, vision, and HSA match
- Paid life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
- Traditional 401k with company match
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid company holidays and pop-up bonus holidays
- Mental health resources
- Professional development stipend
- 1:1 financial planners
- Fertility healthcare
- 100% paid parental and caregiving leave, plus cleaning service and meals during your leave
- Flexible WFH, both remote and in-office opportunities
- Fully stocked kitchen, catered lunches, and occasional in-office happy hours
- Employee resource groups
Our stance on salaries:
Greenlight provides a competitive compensation package with a market-based approach to pay and will vary depending on your location, experience and skill set. The total compensation package for this position will also include a discretionary performance bonus, equity rewards, medical benefits, 401K match, and more. Greenlight conducts continuous compensation evaluations across departments and geographies to ensure we are keeping our pay current and competitive.
The estimated base pay range for this position in (NY, CA, WA): $122,000- 180,000
The estimated base pay range for this position in (CO): $122,000- 155,000
Who we are:
It takes a special team to aim for a never-been-done-before mission like ours. We’re looking for people who love working together because they know it makes us stronger, people who look to others and ask, “How can I help?” and then “How can we make this even better?” If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and help parents raise a financially smart generation, apply to join our team.
Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on age, race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
Greenlight is committed to an inclusive work environment and interview experience. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in our hiring process, please reach out to your recruiter directly or email [email protected].
Top Skills
AWS
Cypress
Express
Kubernetes
Nextjs
Node.js
React
Remix
Rest
Tailwind
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