Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack & Data Engineering (CLAW)

At NerdWallet, we’re on a mission to bring clarity to all of life’s financial decisions and every great mission needs a team of exceptional Nerds. We’ve built an inclusive, flexible, and candid culture where you’re empowered to grow, take smart risks, and be unapologetically yourself (cape optional). We support how you thrive best. We invest in your well-being, development, and ability to make an impact because when one Nerd levels up, we all do.

We are a moderately sized engineering organization supporting the consumer business unit and its aggressive growth plans. We are looking for a highly motivated Full-Stack back-end and data engineering focused Senior Software Engineer to join the Credit Cards / Lending / Banking / Investing (henceforth CLAW) Engineering team to partner with our stakeholders.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy coding, and delivering value, this role is for you. As a Senior Engineer, you'll write extensive code, contribute to architecture and design, and elevate the quality of our deliverables while fostering team ownership of outcomes. We are an agile team practicing Sprints and indexing on continuous improvement and delivery.

This role reports to the Senior Manager, Engineering.



PROJECTS YOU MAY BE WORKING ON IN THIS POSITION INCLUDE:

- Optimize Partner Data Ingestions: Build and maintain API and file-based partner ingestion pipelines to streamline data flow.

- Revolutionize Pricing Pipelines: Replace outdated Google Sheets-based workflows with a robust, automated pricing system, eliminating human error and enhancing reliability.

- Enable Data Visibility: Design and implement a comprehensive dashboard that delivers real-time, vertical-level data insights for improved decision-making.

- Streamline Investigations with Automation: Develop innovative solutions to automate manual investigations, empowering stakeholders with self-serve tools to resolve issues faster.

- Elevate Data Quality and Alerts: Overhaul and unify the alerting system, implementing advanced data quality checks to drive confidence in analytics.


WHERE YOU CAN MAKE AN IMPACT:

- Help business stakeholders make data-driven decisions by improving the partner ingestion system that ingests data from hundreds of partners and build pricing engine on top of it.

- Use observability and monitoring tools to proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve production issues quickly.

- Help drive our existing values as a team towards better engineering practices, strong continuous improvement thinking, and failing fast / repairing faster mentality.

- Serve as a mentor to the engineers on the team.

- Partner with management to continuously develop the engineering roadmap for our team.


YOU ARE:

- Biased to action and are happy to iterate along the way based on what we learn. You tend to believe that time to market is more meaningful than perfection.

- Not afraid to fail. We take informed risks and chances, they often work, sometime