Sr. Software Engineer
BettermentWealth Management company
New York, United States$170,000 - $205,000Senior
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About the role
TL;DR
Develop AI capabilities for Betterment's financial services platform.
- •As Sr Software Engineer, you will work with a team of senior/staff engineers delivering an expanding set of AI capabilities as well as shared infrastructure, LLM evaluation frameworks, and internal libraries.
- •Key Responsibilities Work with a team of senior/staff engineers building the foundation that enables all Betterment teams to deploy AI features.
- •Help deliver Betterment’s AI platform strategy
- •the shared infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, internal libraries, and guardrails that allow product teams to build AI features with confidence and speed.
- •Contribute to high-leverage projects that expand our organization’s AI technical capabilities, where AI organically enhances existing product value.
- •Embed with product teams to ship customer-facing AI functionality to production.
- •Develop broad Betterment domain expertise in the process.
- •Collaborate with legal and compliance leaders to scale processes that enable teams to build AI functionality quickly and responsibly within a regulated financial services environment.
- •Mentor junior engineers, sharing your experience to expand their impact and accelerate their growth.
- •Requirements A contributor capable of establishing the strategic vision for Betterment’s AI systems while also working hands-on alongside senior and staff IC colleagues to build it into reality.
- •Experience with LLM systems, including prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and evaluation systems.
- •Experience operating AI features in production, ensuring quality and auditability via online and offline validation, automated monitoring, and human-in-the-loop oversight.
- •Comfort operating at the frontier.
- •The ability and drive to stay current with emerging tools, techniques, and best practices within the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.
- •Clear judgment about when to use AI and when not to, maintaining a grounded, pragmatic perspective on what we should ship to production today.
- •Fullstack development experience including React, GraphQL, and one or more server-side languages (Ruby, Java, TypeScript, C#, Python, etc.).
- •Experience collaborating across discipline and team boundaries.
- •An open-minded approach when navigating the tension between moving fast, customer quality, and regulatory requirements.
Required skills
ReactGraphQLLLMsPythonRuby on RailsJavaTypeScriptC#
Nice-to-have skills
KubernetesCI/CDAWSPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBGoogle CloudTerraform
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
Equity, Medical, dental, and vision coverage, Life and AD&D insurance, Short- and long-term disability, Infertility support and WPATH-aligned transgender health benefits, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Transit benefits, FSA and HSA options, Flexible paid time off, Paid parental leave, Fully paid four-week sabbatical in your sixth year, Company-paid professional coaching
Tech stack
ReactGraphQLRuby on RailsJavaTypeScriptC#PythonLLMsKubernetesCI/CDAWSPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBGoogle CloudTerraformCloudFormationPulumiEC2S3RDSECSEKSGKECloud RunBigQueryRedshiftGitHub Actions