Senior Software Engineer - (CLAW)

Senior Software Engineer - (CLAW) 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. A Senior Software Engineer plays a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining complex software systems while providing technical leadership within a team. Their primary purpose is to architect scalable and efficient solutions, ensuring that software meets both functional and non-functional requirements such as performance, security, and maintainability. Senior Software Engineers are responsible for writing high-quality, scalable, and efficient code, ensuring that software meets business and technical requirements. Additionally, they review and optimize existing code, conduct thorough testing, and troubleshoot complex issues to improve system performance and reliability. Senior software engineers also mentor junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and best practices in coding, architecture, and software development methodologies. They collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and quality assurance professionals, to align technical solutions with business objectives. Furthermore, they contribute to architectural decisions, evaluate new technologies, and drive innovation within the organization. Strong communication, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently while leading projects are essential for success in this role. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Engineering. PROJECTS YOU MAY BE WORKING ON IN THIS POSITION INCLUDE: - Optimize Partner Data Ingestions: Build and maintain API and file-based partner ingestion pipelines to streamline data flow. - Revolutionize Pricing Pipelines: Replace outdated Google Sheets-based workflows with a robust, automated pricing system, eliminating human error and enhancing reliability. - Enable Data Visibility: Design and implement a comprehensive dashboard that delivers real-time, vertical-level data insights for improved decision-making. - Streamline Investigations with Automation: Develop innovative solutions to automate manual investigations, empowering stakeholders with self-serve tools to resolve issues faster. - Elevate Data Quality and Alerts: Overhaul and unify the alerting system, implementing advanced data quality checks to drive confidence in analytics. WHERE YOU CAN MAKE AN IMPACT: - Help business stakeholders make data-driven decisions by improving the partner ingestion system that ingests data from hundreds of partners and build pricing engine on top of it. - Use observability and monitoring tools to proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve production issues quickly. - Help drive our existing values as a team towards better engineering practices, strong continuous improvement thinking, and failing fast / repairing faster mentality. - Serve as a mentor to the engineers on the team. - Partner with management to continuously develop the engineering roadmap for our team. YOU ARE: - Biased to action and are happy to iterate along the way based on what we learn. You tend to believe that time to market is more meaningful than perfection. - Not afraid to fail. We take informed risks and chances, they often work, sometimes they don’t. You learn from those mistakes and incorporate them into how you think in the future. - Aware that “fast” and “quality” are not mutually exclusive. We can deliver high quality, well engineered code fast. You do not cut quality first to meet timelines, you often thoughtfully try to figure out how to do both. - Interested in being a mentor ... (truncated, view full listing at source)