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Staff Software Engineer leading NerdWallet’s production integrations with third-party AI assistants. Building reliable, compliant LLM systems that deliver financial guidance to consumers.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the technical direction and architecture for NerdWallet financial guidance integrations with third-party AI assistants
- Architect how guidance is packaged, exposed, and rendered, including tool and protocol design and in-conversation UI
- Write production code for new integrations and prototype emerging platform capabilities
- Define reusable abstractions, contracts, and patterns across multiple AI platforms
- Track changing platform protocols, SDKs, review processes, and policies and incorporate them into roadmaps and architecture
- Define evaluation and testing strategies, including automated evaluations, regression suites, and end-to-end tests
- Partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance on authentication, consent, sensitive data, and financial compliance
- Set standards for monitoring, latency, cost, and incident response and help resolve production issues
- Lead design reviews, establish coding and architecture standards, and conduct code reviews
- Mentor engineers across FTE and contractor teams
- Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Managers on priorities, effort, risk, and technical investments
- Analyze usage and performance data to guide integration decisions
- Report to the Director, Engineering
Requirements:
- 8+ years in software engineering
- At least 3+ years at the Staff level
- Deep hands-on experience building and operating production backend systems
- Track record of architecting complex systems end to end
- Experience leading teams through difficult technical problems
- Experience establishing engineering best practices and mentoring engineers
- Hands-on production experience with LLMs, including tool use/function calling, MCP or similar protocols, prompt and context design, retrieval (RAG), evals, and non-deterministic output
- Advanced knowledge of a modern TypeScript stack, such as Node.js, React, GraphQL, Postgres, and Redis
- Ability to evaluate unfamiliar codebases, SDKs, and vendor tools
- Experience designing APIs and shared services, including versioning and backward compatibility
- Experience building on third-party platforms or ecosystems with external constraints and review processes
- Strong understanding of authentication and authorization patterns, such as OAuth
- Security best practices for handling sensitive data
- Comfort with early-stage, zero-to-one work
- Strong communication skills for explaining AI system behavior, tradeoffs, and risk
- Preferred: experience building apps, connectors, or agents for major AI assistant platforms
- Preferred: experience shipping AI features in regulated industries
- Preferred: experience with AWS, CI/CD, containerization, and LLM observability
- Preferred: experience mentoring blended FTE and vendor/contractor teams
Benefits:
- Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents
- Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown
- New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care
- Mental health support
- Paid sabbatical after 5 years
- Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
- Monthly Wellness Stipend
- Cell Phone Stipend
- Wifi Stipend for remote Nerds
- Work from home equipment stipend for remote Nerds
- Co-working space subsidy for remote Nerds
- Employee Resource Groups
- Hackathons and team events
- Company-wide events
- 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter
- Company match for charitable donations
- 401K with 4% company match
- Early access to new financial products and tools
- Financial wellness guidance and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner through Northstar
- Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums
- Equity offered
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