Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer

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 Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our Growth Engineering team and help shape the future of our software development efforts. This role will allow the team to deliver on key user acquisition projects and ultimately contribute to Greenlight’s user base growth.

This engineer will work on a Scrum team with two-week sprints. The team is primarily focused on building and enhancing viral growth loops for our customers using web/mobile but also has the opportunity to make contributions to our backend services. In addition, the team is responsible for driving upgrades to our premium plans.

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of web/mobile technologies, backend, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Technologies we use:

• Frontend: React, Typescript, React Native, Swift, Kotlin, Next.js, Microfrontend, HTML, CSS
• Backend: Kotlin, Node, express, nest.js, REST, Microservices
• Jest, JUnit (Kotlin), Kotest
• AWS cloud
• MySQL, DynamoDB

What you will be doing:

• Building new experiences and enhancing existing experiences and features to help drive user and revenue growth
• Optimizing our organic user growth through full-stack experiments and features
• Contributing to the development and implementation of our growth engine and experimentation platform
• Scaling and enhancing our backend services to evolve with new feature requests and support our growing user base
• Improving the reliability and availability of the platform which supports our families and partners
• Collaborating and working iteratively with Design & Product Teams
• Staying up-to-date with the latest web development trends and technologies, and advocate for their adoption when appropriate

What you should bring:

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years experience leading web/mobile development with a track record of successfully leading web/mobile development projects
• Expertise in web/mobile development technologies such as Swift, Kotlin, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Strong proficiency in back-end technologies and web services (e.g., Node.js, Kotlin, Python, RESTful APIs)
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Deep understanding of web security best practices and principles
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills.

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- 200,000

The estimated base pay range for this position in (CO): 165,000- 185,000

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.