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About the client:

Our client provides affordable 401(k) plans with integrated administration. It supports 400+ payroll providers, simplifying management for small and mid-sized businesses. Backed by $700M+ in funding, it plans to go public soon.

About the role:

As a highly impactful, hands-on, full stack engineer, you will lead challenging technical projects within the framework of an agile team. You will help build out our next generation horizontally scalable financial engine. You will collaborate with domain experts to design, build, test, and own systems and processes for servicing 401(k) plans and making our customers happy. As reliability and performance are key to earning our customers’ trust, you will build robust systems that are observable, maintainable, and scalable.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain business-critical software to process and record customers' retirement savings
• Improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust, higher performance and require less human intervention
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
• Write clean, high-quality code and tests while keeping the system fast and reliable
• Develop and analyze monitors and tests to assess performance, scalability and reliability
• Develop ownership over critical retirement workflows and domains
• Make informed engineering tradeoff decisions
• Delight internal and external stakeholders
• Participate in development life cycle activities like analysis, design, coding, testing and production release

Must-have skills:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience building and maintaining full stack software
• Experience building scalable technologies
• Strong technical skills in JavaScript or TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL
• Strong desire to learn, exchange feedback and grow - from our internal legacy and futuristic technical designs, to retirement domains and workflows that are critical for our business
• Ability to think creatively, and share knowledge with others
• Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
• Proactive and empathetic mindset - you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems for our customers
• Completed formal training in computer science related discipline (Bachelors or Masters preferred).

Nice-to-have skills:

• Experience with Java

Conditions:

• 📍 100% Remote (at least 5 hours overlap with UTC-4)
• 📅 Long-term contractor role (12-month renewable contract)
• ⏰ Full-time dedication (40 hours/week)

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