Staff Software Engineer

Vestwell is a financial technology company powering savings solutions across retirement, education, and healthcare needs. The Staff Software Engineer will develop product features, shape architecture, lead technical initiatives, support production systems, and mentor engineers across the engineering stack.

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain optimal software supporting Product initiatives and features using Typescript
• Establish and enforce best practices in code to build sophisticated software that adheres to common programming principles
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product and Operations teams to support their Product development needs
• Review requirements and translate into an executable development plan, breaking down projects to enable iterative and agile implementation
• Provide production support and train junior engineers
• Proactively drive the vision for architecture and design across multiple product verticals
• Manage the delivery of high impact development solutions

Requirements:

• The Engineering team is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer, with experience in Product feature development and Architecture who can be effective on all levels of our Engineering stack, and is willing to play all necessary roles such as architect, tech lead, code reviewer, Agile coach, and mentor
• In short, we want to bring experienced Engineers in to make key decisions regarding technology, architecture, and software
• You're a great fit for our team if you can balance detail-oriented tasks with long term strategy and scale initiatives
• • 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• • Experience with Typescript and Node.js
• • Experience with Python
• • Proficiency with AI tools such as Claude and Cursor
• • Experience scaling and managing 3+ person teams
• • Advanced knowledge Agile practices
• • Extensive development experience
• • Experience mentoring more junior engineers
• • Experience with relational databases
• • Data Architecture experience
• • Experience with AWS cloud services
• • Ability to triage and assign work
• • Has experience working with and leading remote contractors
• • Demonstrated experience with Software Architecture and Design
• • Experience working with and supporting cross functional teams
• • Extensive use of Git, preferably Github
• • Fintech experience
• • Startup experience
• • Building pipelines in Jenkins