Software Engineer, Frontend

This role supports US-based remote work or hybrid in-office in Palo Alto, CA.

About the role

As part of a cross-functional scrum team, you will design and develop new products and features to help clients grow their wealth. In addition to building client-facing features leveraging our in-house Design System components, you will also work on improving our infrastructure and developer productivity, with significant impact afforded by our cross-platform collaboration methods.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with backend and mobile engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features and enhance existing features
• Join other web engineers to triage and resolve operational issues, ensuring that mission-critical web systems and services operate smoothly across the web platform
• Help with web platform infrastructure projects to improve the health and performance of our systems and increase product delivery velocity
• Participate in recruiting activities such as interviewing
• Provide mentorship to other engineers on the team

Requirements

• 2-5 years in a web-focused engineering role
• A deep understanding of JavaScript, including standard ES5+, native DOM APIs, and ideally at least one modern front-end framework (React, Vue, Angular, etc.)
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or similar server-side frameworks (such as Express or Django) is a plus
• Experience working with design to build custom pages and components, with a focus on page speed performance and writing custom CSS to create pages that are responsive across a variety of screen sizes
• Real passion for working on projects that have a measurable business impact and like working in a fast-paced cross-functional environment
• Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing
• BS or MS in computer science or related field

Benefits

• Pair you with a mentor who will guide you through our structured onboarding program
• Encourage you to work on projects that match your professional goals
• Support your professional development by providing feedback during weekly 1:1s and our bi-annual reviews
• Provide autonomy so you can be a happy and successful member of our team
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• 401K plan
• Generous time off and parental leave
• Wellness reimbursements
• Professional development opportunities
• Employee investing discount

Pay

Estimated annual salary range: $150,000 - $189,000 plus equity and a discretionary bonus.

About Wealthfront

Here at Wealthfront, our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions. We do this by leveraging technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products that help modern investors grow and manage their money.

• A Cash Account that, through our partner banks, offers one of the highest annual percentage yields on uninvested cash in the industry, while providing instant and secure access to your money with no account fees and a full suite of checking features.
• A zero-commission Stock Investing Account with 50+ handpicked collections that help DIY investors discover new companies and make smarter investing decisions.
• Multiple automated investing portfolios designed to unlock tax savings through sophisticated strategies like fixed income, tax-loss harvesting, and direct indexing—which we offer at industry-leading low costs and accessible minimums.

Our award-winning products have attracted over 1 million clients who trust us with more than $90 billion of their hard-earned savings—and we're far from done.