Senior Software Engineer, Applications

About the Role

You'll be joining as the senior engineer on a full-stack team, working across the entire Northstar product, from backend services and data models to client-facing interfaces. Northstar is a financial wellness platform that combines personalized digital tools with access to financial advisors, supporting needs such as budgeting, retirement planning, and more.

Responsibilities

• Build and own full-stack features across the Northstar product, from Rails/Python/TypeScript services to React front ends
• Identify, propose, and execute architecture changes, including evaluating new technologies or uses of existing tools
• Design data models and workflows that support financial planning, adviser-client relationships, and sensitive financial information
• Proactively identify and address technical debt
• Partner with advisers and the product team to translate workflows into software and solve nebulous problems
• Evaluate and integrate AI libraries and tools while ensuring data privacy and security
• Own services end-to-end, from design to deployment, monitoring, and on-call responsibilities
• Mentor engineers, contribute to cross-team decisions, and raise the bar on design and code review
• Communicate with advisers, clients, and executives to build cross-team buy-in for initiatives

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with depth in full-stack development
• Strong production experience with Rails, React, Python, and TypeScript
• Comfort working with relational databases (Postgres) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Heroku)
• Experience owning services in production, including monitoring, on-call, and incident response (Datadog)
• Track record of taking ownership of features end-to-end, from problem identification to production
• Working knowledge of application security practices and experience raising security concerns
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to work across teams
• Comfort handling sensitive data and a focus on responsible development

Qualifications

• Experience in fintech, wealth management, insurance, or regulated industries (nice to have)
• Familiarity with HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar compliance frameworks (nice to have)
• Experience evaluating or integrating AI tooling with data privacy and security in mind (nice to have)
• Experience building tools for specialized user groups (nice to have)
• Experience in technical recruiting or outreach (nice to have)

Pay

The salary range for New York-based candidates is $188,000 - $230,000. We adjust this range for candidates outside the New York geographic region using a location factor. Placement within the range is based on experience.

Direct impact on a problem that touches almost every working American. A team that takes ownership seriously and ships reliably and with urgency.