Software Engineer

About SmartAsset:

SmartAsset is an online destination for consumer-focused financial information and advice, whose mission is helping people make smart financial decisions, reaching over an estimated 59 million people each month (as of January 2025) through our educational content and personalized calculators and tools. To extend our mission, we also operate SmartAsset Advisor Marketing Platform (AMP), which helps connect consumers with fiduciary financial advisors.SmartAsset has earned recognition on the Inc. 5000 (#2574 in 2023) and Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ (#250 in 2022) lists. Currently, SmartAsset ranks on Y Combinator’s list of Top 100 Companies. A successful $110 million Series D funding round in 2021 valued the company at over $1 billion.

*Other than application and licensing fees, SmartAsset did not provide compensation for the aforementioned awards.

About the Team: 

You’ll be working with a new and growing team that is responsible for the content management architecture at SmartAsset. This team is working to build out the future content management systems to create, serve, and innovate on the financial information that attracts our users and has built our brand. Your role on this team will involve working on both front and backend services as we build and migrate our new content management system while working closely with our organizational architects to design the future of how we serve content.

About the Job: 

Responsibilities:

• Engage in a highly collaborative team environment where you will deliver software following best-practice principles using Agile methodology
• Build and maintain full-stack enterprise technology solutions that scale and represent our brand to our users.
• Partner with our Product team to identify opportunities to streamline how we create, structure, and deliver content.
• Integrate with third party tools and our internal Data teams to facilitate critical feature experimentation and sharpen the content we provide.
• Partner with our architects to design an enterprise Content Management architecture that can grow and serve the needs of our business for years to come
• Identify opportunities to adopt new technologies or team processes that can improve the quality and efficiency of the software we build and deliver.

Skills / Experience You Have:

• 5+ years experience building full stack web applications. 
• Strong experience building, shipping, scaling and operating Java web applications
• Strong experience with ReactJS and NodeJS frameworks and building modular content for the modern web.
• Proficient with SQL and comfortable working with relational databases.
• Strong knowledge of Git or other source control tools.
• Experience designing complex cloud solutions based on AWS and the ability to plan the implementation of these solutions.
• Demonstrated critical and strategic thinking about business, products, and technical challenges to stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and familiarity working in an agile environment.
• Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment and the ability to be cross-functional. 
• Passion for technology and working with a team to continuously improve each other, our tools, and our processes.

Skills / Experience Preferred: 

• Experience using or integrating headless WordPress or other Content Management tools.
• Knowledge or experience with the NextJS framework and GraphQL.
• Experience working with A/B testing tools such as Optimizely.
• Familiarity with Terraform or other IaC tools.
• Experience with ad serving platforms such as DFP

Available Benefits and Perks:

• All roles at SmartAsset are currently and will remain remote - flexibility to work from anywhere in the contiguous US.
• Medical, Dental, Vision - multiple packages available based on your individualized needs
• Life/AD&D Insurance - basic coverage at 100% company paid, additional supplemental available 
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• FSA: Medical and Dependent Care 
• 401K 
• Equity packages for each role
• Time Off:  PTO, 3 Month Paid Parental Leave,  Secondary Caregiver Leave
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Employee Resource Groups supporting our underrepresented communities
• Pet Insurance
• Home Office Stipend

SmartAsset is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at Recruiting@smartasset.com.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, Rhode Island, Washington, and New York City residents*  $117k- 176k base salary + RSUs + benefits.

Salary at SmartAsset is determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the contiguous United States.