Software Engineer

SmartAsset is an online destination for consumer-focused financial information, educational content, personalized calculators, and tools. The Software Engineer will work on the Web Platform team to build, migrate, run, and scale content management systems and web products across front-end and back-end services. The role involves contributing to technical decisions, guiding designs, collaborating in an Agile Scrum environment, and supporting a remote engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• This position presents a high-growth opportunity to be part of a dynamic engineering team that owns the technical and architectural domains of our web platform domain
• You will be part of an AGILE SCRUM team, responsible for running and scaling our web site and other web products
• You will be collaborating closely with everyone around you including our product team and other stakeholders to complete sprint and triage commitments
• You will actively participate and support making key technical decisions, documenting technical and improving processes as we revamp and reshape the services we provide
• Your role will be pivotal in guiding technical designs and ensuring the successful implementation of your team’s roadmap
• Your relentless drive to learn, coupled with a "no challenge is too big" approach, will shape your team's decisions around technology, tooling, and processes
• You present excellent communication skills that enhance collaboration in an asynchronous and fully remote environment

Requirements:

• • Engineering Expertise: 3+ years of experience building, maintaining, and scaling highly available, performant web platforms with Java (or similar) and deep expertise in ReactJS and NodeJS for modular, modern web applications
• • Technical Proficiency: Strong knowledge of relational databases and SQL, version control with Git, and designing and implementing complex cloud solutions (preferably AWS)
• • Leadership & Strategy: Proven ability to drive project and product success in Agile environments through strategic thinking, clear communication, and decisive action
• • Team Development: Passionate about coaching and mentoring others while continuously improving yourself, fostering a culture of growth and collaboration
• • Execution & Adaptability: Adept at identifying risks, creating effective mitigations, and thriving in fast-paced, cross-functional teams with a startup mindset and a relentless drive for improvement
• • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• • Must be able to communicate via phone calls and/or video conferences
• • Knowledge of least privilege principle, application structure and OOP patterns
• • Experience working in or developing in a CI/CD environment
• • Familiarity using IAC tools (ex. Terraform, Cloudformation)
• • Knowledge operating incidents, releases, problem, and change management processes
• • Experience using or integrating headless WordPress or other Content Management tools