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NerdWallet
NerdWallet
501 – 1,000 Employees
H1B Visa SponsorFinanceFintech
NerdWallet is a finance and fintech company that helps consumers and small and midsize businesses make clearer, more confident financial decisions. Its products and content are designed to make complex money topics easier to understand, while its team—known as “Nerds”—works in an inclusive, equity-focused culture. NerdWallet also supports community initiatives aimed at underserved and unbanked populations through its corporate social responsibility efforts.
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Staff Software Engineer, AI Assistant Integrations

Lead NerdWallet’s production integrations with third-party AI assistants, building reliable, compliant LLM systems that provide financial guidance to consumers.

USUnited States
$152,000 – $282,000 / year
RemoteFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredFull-stack EngineerSoftware Engineer
AWSGraphQLJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresReactRedisTypeScript

Description

  • Set the technical direction and architecture for NerdWallet’s financial guidance integrations with third-party AI assistants.
  • Design how guidance is packaged, exposed, and displayed, including tools, protocols, and in-conversation interfaces.
  • Build production integrations and prototype capabilities emerging on AI platforms.
  • Create reusable abstractions, contracts, and patterns for use across AI platforms.
  • Monitor platform protocols, SDKs, review processes, and policies, and reflect changes in roadmaps and architecture.
  • Develop evaluation and testing approaches, including automated evaluations, regression suites, and end-to-end tests.
  • Work with Security, Legal, and Compliance on authentication, consent, sensitive data, and financial compliance.
  • Set standards for monitoring, latency, cost, and incident response, and help resolve production issues.
  • Lead design reviews, set coding and architecture standards, and review code.
  • Mentor engineers across employee and contractor teams.
  • Coordinate with Engineering Managers and Product Managers on priorities, effort, risk, and technical investments.
  • Use usage and performance data to inform integration decisions.
  • Report to the Director of Engineering.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of software engineering experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience at Staff level.
  • Extensive hands-on experience building and operating production backend systems.
  • A track record of architecting complex systems end to end.
  • Experience leading teams through challenging technical problems.
  • Experience setting engineering best practices and mentoring engineers.
  • Production experience with LLMs, including tool use or function calling, MCP or similar protocols, prompt and context design, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, and non-deterministic outputs.
  • Advanced knowledge of a modern TypeScript stack, such as Node.js, React, GraphQL, Postgres, and Redis.
  • Ability to assess unfamiliar codebases, SDKs, and vendor tools.
  • Experience designing APIs and shared services, including versioning and backward compatibility.
  • Experience building on third-party platforms or ecosystems with external constraints and review processes.
  • Strong understanding of authentication and authorization approaches, such as OAuth.
  • Knowledge of security practices for handling sensitive data.
  • Comfort with early-stage, zero-to-one work.
  • Strong communication skills for explaining AI system behavior, tradeoffs, and risks.
  • Preferred: experience building apps, connectors, or agents for major AI assistant platforms.
  • Preferred: experience shipping AI features in regulated industries.
  • Preferred: experience with AWS, CI/CD, containerization, and LLM observability.
  • Preferred: experience mentoring teams that include employees and vendor or contractor staff.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and dependents.
  • Flexible vacation time, 11 holidays, and a company holiday shutdown under the Rejuvenation Policy.
  • New parent leave for employees welcoming a newborn or a child through adoption or foster care.
  • Mental health support.
  • Paid sabbatical after five years.
  • Health and dependent care FSA and HSA plans, with a monthly NerdWallet contribution.
  • Monthly wellness stipend.
  • Cell phone stipend.
  • Wi-Fi stipend for remote employees.
  • Work-from-home equipment stipend for remote employees.
  • Co-working space subsidy for remote employees.
  • Employee resource groups.
  • Hackathons and team events.
  • Company-wide events.
  • Eight hours of volunteer time off per quarter.
  • Company match for charitable donations.
  • 401(k) with a 4% company match.
  • Early access to new financial products and tools.
  • Financial wellness guidance and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner through Northstar.
  • Disability and life insurance with employer-paid premiums.
  • Equity.

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