Betterment
Staff Engineer
$200K–$238K
Betterment HQ - New York City +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 22, 2026
- Location
- Betterment HQ - New York City
61 West 23rd Street, Fifth Floor, New York, New York
About the job
Leads full-stack engineering for customer-facing applications, shaping technical direction and delivering scalable, reliable software while improving team practices and developer experience.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and guide complex projects from discovery through release.
- Design and build full-stack software with strong performance, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
- Mentor engineers and improve development practices, workflows, and architecture, including AI-assisted development.
What they ask for
- Proven experience scoping, leading, and delivering complex technical projects.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding tools in production work.
- Strong full-stack experience building customer-facing web applications and supporting systems; proficiency with React or a similar framework.
- Experience with a server-side language and relational databases, including schema design and detailed SQL queries.
Nice to have
- Ruby experience; the team uses Ruby on Rails.
- GraphQL experience.
Pay
$200,000 - $238,000 USD base salary
Tools
Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Java, Python, C#, React, GraphQL, SQL
AI focus
Use AI coding tools in production and establish team practices for reviewing, testing, and maintaining the quality of AI-generated code.
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