The Staff Software Engineer will design and develop scalable backend systems, collaborate across teams, and guide technical initiatives to support rapid growth.
Greenlight is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. We proudly serve more than 6 million parents and kids with our award-winning banking app for families. With Greenlight, parents can automate allowance, manage chores, set flexible spend controls, and invest for their family’s future. Kids and teens learn to earn, save, spend wisely, and invest.
At Greenlight, we believe every child should have the opportunity to become financially healthy and happy. It’s no small task, and that’s why we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better, brighter future for the next generation depends on it.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to work within our Product Engineering group. In this role, you are going to help highly productive teams build high quality and scalable software to support the doubling of our user-base over the next year. We've moved fast to get to the point we are at today and there are certain parts of our software that need to be modernized. You will help us on that journey and support our teams as they build new features into our apps.
Your day-to-day:
- Drive the design and development of high-quality, scalable backend systems in partnership with engineering leads.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering leadership to assess the technical implications of new initiatives and guide prioritization.
- Shape and evolve the long-term technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals while proactively identifying opportunities for architectural improvements.
What you’ll bring to the team:
- Prior experience working in a high-growth stage company building and architecting SAAS products and solutions
- The ability to provide technical insight and overall direction on projects from concept to delivery
- Highly skilled communicator. You’ll spend a fair part of your day talking and working with others
- A Node/Javascript and Kotlin background is required since we want the engineer to start making an immediate impact.
- Experience designing distributed systems and breaking apart monolithic systems is required
- Ability to go through codebase and logs to identify issues and come up with scalable solutions is required to be successful in this role.
Technologies we use:
- Backend: Node.js, Kotlin, Java, Go
- Frontend: React, Redux, Swift, Kotlin
- REST, gRPC, graphQL
- AWSMySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
- Kubernetes, Ambassador, Helm, Rancher
Work perks at Greenlight:
- Medical, dental, vision, and HSA match
- Paid life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
- Traditional 401k with company match
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid company holidays and pop-up bonus holidays
- Mental health resources
- Professional development stipend
- 1:1 financial planners
- Fertility healthcare
- 100% paid parental and caregiving leave, plus cleaning service and meals during your leave
- Flexible WFH, both remote and in-office opportunities
- Fully stocked kitchen, catered lunches, and occasional in-office happy hours
- Employee resource groups
Our stance on salaries:
Greenlight provides a competitive compensation package with a market-based approach to pay and will vary depending on your location, experience and skill set. The total compensation package for this position will also include a discretionary performance bonus, equity rewards, medical benefits, 401K match, and more. Greenlight conducts continuous compensation evaluations across departments and geographies to ensure we are keeping our pay current and competitive.
The estimated base pay range for this position in (NY, CA, WA): $165,000- 225,000
The estimated base pay range for this position in (CO): 165,000- 195,000
Who we are:
It takes a special team to aim for a never-been-done-before mission like ours. We’re looking for people who love working together because they know it makes us stronger, people who look to others and ask, “How can I help?” and then “How can we make this even better?” If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and help parents raise a financially smart generation, apply to join our team.
Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on age, race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
Greenlight is committed to an inclusive work environment and interview experience. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in our hiring process, please reach out to your recruiter directly or email [email protected].
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DynamoDB
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React
Redis
Redux
Rest
Swift
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