Sr. Mobile Engineer

Betterment is a leading technology-driven financial services company that offers investing savings and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease. Were headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (four days/ week in-office with no required office days during the summer and winter holidays).

The Product Engineering teams at Betterment build the applications our customers rely on from their very first interaction with our platform to every experience once theyre logged in. Were looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer to join us in furthering our mission to make peoples lives better through the delightful intuitive experiences that have defined Betterment since day this role youll own the critical first impression new customers have of Betterment. Youll be responsible for building and maintaining the high-quality features our customers engage with every day and for raising the bar on what great mobile experiences look like.

Our mobile application guides customers through the most important life events in their financial journey. Whether its saving to buy a house or planning for retirement hundreds of thousands of people rely on us to invest and save their money. If you are passionate about financial wellness and are driven to solve complex problems that make saving and investing simple this role is for you.

Mobile Engineers sit side-by-side with Full Stack Engineers user experience designers and product managers to craft our consumer-facing applications. Part of being a member of this team is a love for building products youre proud to share with your friends and family. Our goal is to delight our customers whenever possible with sleek design simple user experience and access to sophisticated advice. Youll be a part of a team thats tackling difficult questions of scale architecture and interaction.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below weve reflected the base salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterments total compensation package for employees.

• New York City: $170000 - $195000

This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.

• Lead medium-to-large scale initiatives partnering with teammates and adhering to software development best practices in order to ship high quality software continuously and iteratively
• Collaborate with our Product & Design teams to develop delightful experiences that guide our customers on their saving and investing journey
• Youll work alongside Fullstack Engineers to help ensure our features and application grow with our business while remaining performant and secure
• Teach and Learn. As a Senior Engineer we expect you to share your knowledge with new and junior engineers help mentor and grow our team professionally as well as learn from our leaders to level up your own talents

• Create efficiency. Our software helps customers save time and money. We maintain it through clean code rigorous testing and pragmatic programming

• Collaborate with purpose. Youll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterments application even better
• Contribute to an environment of open communication where engineers feel empowered to share ideas and take initiative to solve problems that contribute to achieving company objectives
• Work with people who care. Half of our team is made up of engineers but we believe everyone at Betterment is an engineer with their own tools. Were a group of talented professionals who pride ourselves in what we do. Were smart innovative energetic and lots of fun

• Experience building applications in JavaScript/TypeScript and React Native development and familiarity with the underlying iOS and Android platforms. Experience with Flutter is nice to have!
• Additional experience with GraphQL is a plus.
• Strong understanding of software architecture scalability and performance considerations in mobile apps.
• Ensure high standards for code quality test coverage accessibility and performance.
• Strong track record leading projects driving adoption of platform improvements and making pragmatic tradeoffs while maintaining quality
• Collaborative mindset and excitement to partner with teammates across multiple teams within engineering design and product
• Passion for software engineering developer experience and creating what doesnt yet exist
• Appreciation of agility and pragmatism in software development
• The ability to thrive in a startup-like environment balancing autonomy with collaboration

We change lives

Be a part of a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact always laddering up to our mission; to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease.

We set audacious goals

We set them for the company our customers and ourselves and we wont stop until we reach them. We dont just show up; we give our all then celebrate our wins.

We value all perspectives

When we collaborate were at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.

We simplify financial services

Were financial services pioneers always finding new ways to improve optimize and enhance. Constant improvement is in our DNA.

Our Commitment to Your Total Well-being:

• We offer a competitive suite of benefits including medical dental and vision coverage; life and AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability; infertility support and WPATH-aligned transgender health benefits; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); transit benefits and FSA and HSA options
• Ownership: Equity for all employees including new hire and refresher grants.
• Time: Flexible paid time off paid parental leave and a fully paid four-week sabbatical in your sixth year.
• Growth: Company-paid professional coaching for all employees.
• Wealth: Day-one 401(k) match plus matching on qualified student loan payments.

Well take a few weeks to review all applications. If wed like to spend more time with you well reach out to arrange next steps which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.

In the interview process well look to learn more about your skills experiences capabilities and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions.

On average it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions were unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.

We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!

Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process please reach out to your recruiter.

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Come join us!

Were an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal state and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees applicants or any other covered persons because of race color religion creed national origin or ancestry ethnicity sex gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual) sexual orientation marital status age physical or mental disability citizenship past current or prospective service in the uniformed services predisposing genetic characteristic domestic violence victim status arrest records or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state or local law.