Senior Software Engineer, Consumer Banking & Credit Cards

Senior Software Engineer, Consumer Banking & Credit Cards 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. Consumer Banking & Credit Cards own the end-to-end shopping journeys for two of NerdWallet’s largest and most impactful verticals. Our mission is to create best-in-class, data-driven comparison shopping experiences that help millions of users make smarter financial decisions. Operating at the intersection of technology, data-driven experimentation, and product excellence, these teams have a direct impact on NerdWallet’s growth. Our ownership spans both Organic (SEO) and Paid Marketing channels, building fast, intuitive, and highly optimized comparison shopping flows that rank, perform, and scale. By collaborating with business stakeholders, organic growth and paid marketing strategists, we push the boundaries of what’s possible in performance engineering and multi-channel growth strategies. If you thrive on high-impact work, solving complex 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 emphasis on our core technology stack: TypeScript, Next.js and AWS cloud services (including IAC w/ AWS CDK). You’ll work across the stack, but the primary focus will be on creating excellent user experiences, building data systems that enable fast experimentation, and developing the backend infrastructure that powers our shopping journeys. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, business stakeholders, 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. This role reports to the Manager, Engineering. WHERE YOU CAN MAKE AN IMPACT: - Build, maintain, and evolve Full Stack React/Next.js applications that serve millions of monthly users. - Improve Core Web Vitals, accessibility, and technical SEO to drive discoverability and engagement. - Partner with product, organic growth, paid marketers and content teams to launch, test, and iterate on high-impact shopping experiences. - Design and implement backend APIs and cloud services that power dynamic, personalized content and partner integrations. - Collaborate on platform-wide initiatives: performance, observability, A/B testing infrastructure, and developer experience. - Contribute to shared UI components and design systems, helping scale high-quality UX across pages and flows. - Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and team technical discussions to help raise the engineering bar. YOUR EXPERIENCE: We recognize not everyone will meet all of the criteria. If you meet most of the criteria below and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you. - 6+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful contributions across both front-end and back-end systems. - Deep experience in TypeScript, React.js, and Next.js http://next.js or a related isormorphic framework (Astro, Gatsby, etc.). - Experience with building backend systems using cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Vercel). - Hands-on experience building and consuming RESTful and GraphQL APIs and integrating with databases (SQL/NoSQL). - Strong product and UX sensibility with a keen eye for performance, usabi ... (truncated, view full listing at source)