Staff Software Engineer – Consumer Engineering

NerdWallet

Staff Software Engineer at NerdWallet leading execution of complex technical work across the full stack. Collaborating with product and engineering teams to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $152,000 - $282,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaScriptNext.jsNode.jsReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the execution of the team's most complex technical initiatives across the full stack setting the engineering standards and pace for the team to follow.
Lead technical design and architecture for complex features, documenting systems, identifying tradeoffs, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, scalable, performant, and production-ready (including observability, alerting, and web performance).
Mentor and uplevel engineers through actionable code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing; advocate for and improve the team's technical best practices.
Partner with the EM and PM to collaboratively roadmap large tracks of work, break down business requirements into technical requirements, and help the team hit deadlines. Proactively manage stakeholders, communicate upward, and build cross-team influence.
Participate in the team’s Pod Lead rotation, responding to incidents, serving stakeholder needs and being on-call via PagerDuty for a week at a time (roughly once every 4-6 weeks).

Requirements

What you’ll need

8-10+ years of software engineering experience as a Full-stack web developer with a frontend bias
Production experience at scale
Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, Node.js and Next.js.
Hands-on experience with observability tools (DataDog or similar)
Deep knowledge of web performance (Core Web Vitals, caching, critical rendering path, static generation)
Experience building REST APIs, GraphQL graphs and utilizing cloud services (Vercel & AWS or similar: GCP, Azure, etc.) to build backends and data systems
Familiarity with utilizing AI software-development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc. to accelerate development
1-2+ years experience as in a tech lead capacity

Benefits

Comp & perks

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)

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Hard Skills & Tools

Full-stack web developmentReactTypeScriptNode.jsNext.jsREST APIsGraphQLcloud servicesweb performanceobservability

Soft Skills

mentoringcode reviewspair programmingstakeholder managementcommunicationcross-team influencetechnical best practicesincident responsecollaborationleadership