Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About Savvy Wealth:

Wealth management is a $545 billion industry in the US, yet remains archaic and inefficient with low technology penetration. 75% of financial advisors don’t offer digital communication beyond email, and 62% still build financial plans manually in Excel. This leads to a poor client experience and results in financial advisors spending over 70% of their time on non-client facing, manual work.

Savvy is changing that. We’re building the most advisor-centric platform in wealth management: a digital-first solution that modernizes human financial advice. Advisors who partner with Savvy tap into AI-powered software, automated sales and marketing, and seamless back office workflows to scale faster and spend more time with clients.

We’ve raised over $105M to date from Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Mark Casady (former LPL Financial CEO), and other top-tier investors. Our team is made up of repeat founders and operators who’ve helped build Airbnb, Square, Brex, Carta, Facebook, $200B+ RIAs, and more.

Savvy is at a pivotal point in its growth trajectory, having established strong product-market fit in providing a modern platform to financial advisors. We’ve surpassed $2.2 billion in AUM in less than three years, grown 600%+ in the last 18 months, and are entering the next phase of the company which involves rapid expansion of our product offering and continued revenue growth. Come help us scale!

Responsibilities:

• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable confident, low-friction deployments that work consistently across services and environments

• Build and maintain local and cloud development environments so engineers can spin up, test, and debug changes with minimal setup or surprises

• Standardize alerting, metrics, and logging across systems to enable quick diagnosis and reduce firefighting time

• Systematically identify and resolve developer experience pain points: slow tests, flaky builds, unclear failures, and missing documentation

• Introduce strategic automation (e.g., test selection, release validation, infrastructure checks) where it clearly improves velocity or safety

• Leverage AI to accelerate engineering workflows, from code review and test generation to infrastructure management

• Partner with product engineering teams to drive adoption of platform improvements through trust and collaboration, not mandates

Must have:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on infrastructure, platform, or developer experience work

• Strong proficiency with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker), and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform)

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)

• Solid understanding of observability and monitoring tools (Datadog preferred) for metrics, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing

• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Ruby, Python, Bash, or Go)

• Experience with web application backends (Ruby on Rails preferred) and frontend build tooling (pnpm, Turborepo, ESLint, Jest/Vitest, Playwright)

• Systems thinking with pragmatism. You design reliable systems that scale for current and near-term needs without over-engineering

• Strong communication skills with the ability to drive adoption through mentorship and partnership

Nice to have:

• Experience migrating workloads between cloud providers or PaaS platforms (e.g., Heroku to AWS)

• Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration at scale

• Fintech domain knowledge including financial services, regulatory compliance, or financial data integrations

• Experience with macOS development toolchains and Apple Silicon environments

• Track record of measurably improving developer productivity or deployment velocity

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and equity package

• Unlimited PTO + paid company holidays

• Access to holistic medical, dental, and vision plans

• Company 401(k), Commuter, and HSA/FSA plans

• NYC office in the heart of Manhattan

• Lunch and snacks provided in the office

• Access to virtual mental health care (Spring Health), vision related benefits (XP Health), and health concierge (Rightway) to help you find the right care

• Access to counseling for stress management, dependent care, nutrition, fitness, legal, and financial issues (Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP)