NerdWallet - Senior Software Engineer, Consumer Facing Web Products

• US$136K – $252K • Offers Equity • Base pay offered may vary within the posted range based on several factors, including but not limited to education, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. • 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). Whether remote or in-office, 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. • The Consumer Banking org is responsible for owning the web shopping experiences for two of NerdWallet's largest and most mission-critical verticals. Our mission is to create best-in-class, data-driven financial marketplace experiences that help millions of users make smarter financial decisions. We build fast, intuitive, and highly optimized experiences that rank, perform, and scale, all while collaborating with business stakeholders, Paid Marketers and SEO strategists to drive measurable business impact. We use data to drive our decision making, running fast product-led experiments that deliver real business value, as well as contribute directly to the company’s strategic roadmap. • If you thrive on high-impact work, solving technical challenges, and shaping the future of financial shopping experiences on the web, this is the place for you. • We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with a strong sense of product to join our team. You'll work across the stack, but your primary focus will be delivering modern, high-performance user experiences that balance speed, usability, and search visibility. You embrace AI development tools as part of your everyday workflow, using them to move faster without sacrificing quality. • You'll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build scalable, engaging shopping flows, while also contributing to performance, observability, accessibility, and technical excellence. This is a hands-on engineering role, ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, has a strong product mindset, and is motivated by seeing their work used by millions of users. • Where you can make an impact: • Build, maintain, and evolve React/Next.js front-end applications that serve millions of monthly users. • Improve Core Web Vitals, accessibility, and technical SEO to drive discoverability and engagement. • Partner with product, SEO, and content teams to launch, test, and iterate on high-impact shopping experiences. • Design and implement backend APIs and services that power dynamic, personalized content, rapid experimentation and partner integrations. • Collaborate on platform-wide initiatives: performance, observability, A/B testing infrastructure, and front-end developer experience. • Contribute to shared UI components and design systems, helping scale high-quality UX across pages. • Use AI coding tools and spec-driven workflows as part of your day-to-day, contributing to the team's growing dev harness and automations. • Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and team technical discussions to help raise the engineering bar. • Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?) • Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents • Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown • New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care • Mental health support • Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests • Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution • Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend) • Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends) • Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too) • Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities • Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments • Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction • Our Nerds love to make an impact by paying it forward – Take 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter and donate to your favorite causes with a company match • Plan for your future (And when you retire on your island, remember the little people) • 401K with 4% company match • Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools • Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar • Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums • If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.