Backend Software Engineer

Vestwell is the financial technology company powering the new savings economy. The New York City-based fintech platform redefines how people save for the critical aspects of life across retirement, education, and healthcare savings needs. Today, Vestwell enables over 350,000 businesses and nearly 1.5 Million active savers, with over $30 billion in assets saved across all 50 United States. 

Vestwell offers a range of products, including workplace-delivered retirement plans, employer-offered student loan repayment benefits, and various savings accounts for education, emergencies, and individuals with disabilities.

Vestwell's platform serves a diverse clientele, including financial advisers, employers, third-party administrators, financial institutions, payroll providers, government agencies, and individual savers.

Who are we looking for?

Vestwell’s payroll integrations engineering team is seeking a Software Engineer with demonstrated experience creating and consuming REST APIs using Python or other object-oriented languages to enable communication between Vestwell’s systems and those of our partners. 

The ideal candidate will be experienced working within a kanban development team, writing well-tested, maintainable and clean code and collaborating day to day with stakeholders on our product and operations teams.

You’re a great fit for our team if you:

• Can balance detail-oriented tasks with long term strategy and scale initiatives. 

• Prioritize sustainable development, meaning that you can deliver value quickly but not at the expense of code sustainability.

• Work strategically to avoid tech debt and are constantly looking for the better way.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain software enabling internal and external API integrations using Python

• Follow best practices in code to build maintainable, low-complexity software which adheres to common programming principles

• Work with stakeholders including our Product and Operations teams to support their product development needs

• Review requirements and translate into an executable development plan, breaking down projects to enable iterative and agile implementation

• Provide production support. We do not have after-hours on-call support, but do support our products during business hours with a rotating schedule.

Requirements

The Necessities

• 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer

• Demonstrated experience building out REST APIs in Python or another language

• Experience working with a RDBMS like PostgreSQL

• Ability to collaborate while working on a team and find the best solutions

• Understanding of git

The Extras

• Experience working at a company founded in the past 5-10 years

• Experience writing unit and automated acceptance tests

• Experience with UI technologies such as React. Our team works on internal and external facing UIs, and, while we don’t expect frontend experience with this role, it’s a plus!

• Experience provisioning AWS cloud services using Terraform

• Building pipelines in Jenkins or another CI tool

The expected salary range for this position is $120K-135K , $114K-$128.250K for Austin.

OUR BENEFITS

We’re an innovative, high-growth company, with lots of exciting milestones ahead. We value health and wellness at Vestwell and in addition to a dedicated Employee Wellbeing Committee, we offer competitive health coverage and generous vacation offering. We have adopted a hybrid office policy, but all employees are welcome at our bright, comfortable office with many workspace options in our Midtown Manhattan office, so everyone has a setting that is the most productive for them. Oh, and naturally we have a great 401(k) plan!

OUR PROCESS

It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1-2 conversations about Vestwell, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but the usual next steps are a skill or experience screen (e.g. a coding interview for an Engineer, a portfolio review for a Designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in-person interview panel after that if the screens go well. Before making an offer, our interview process concludes with a references check stage for your recruiter to meet with a current or former supervisor and peer. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.