Senior Software Engineer (DevEx)
Vestwell
WHO ARE WE?
There are over 30M small businesses in the United States, but only a tiny fraction of them have a workplace savings program in place. As the savings gap in the country widens, it’s imperative that every worker has access to and participates in their company’s savings program, such as a 401(k) or 403(b). We believe that American workers should have easy access to an inexpensive, flexible, and intuitive solution to save for a brighter future.
Unfortunately, prior to Vestwell, small businesses have been neglected and underserved, with expensive, inflexible, poorly designed offerings built on old, mainframe software. Vestwell is changing that, starting with rebuilding the core infrastructure for the modern era.
Vestwell’s north star is to be the engine behind a $30T industry, powering all payroll-deducted workplace savings programs for small-to-midsize businesses, such as 401(k), 403(b), IRA, emergency savings accounts (ESA), health savings accounts (HSA), 529 college savings, and alike.
Vestwell’s focus is to build the most flexible, powerful workplace savings and investment platform, delivered through the hands and minds of their financial services partners with the help of payroll provider partners. The team at Vestwell makes the hard stuff look easy, by combining the expertise of financial advice with the sophistication of a technology provider.
As a result, workplace providers are able to bestow the advice and solution employers and employees have been asking for, while growing and scaling along the way. Employers get a cost-effective solution designed for their needs without all the headaches, and employees get a user-friendly portal that helps them achieve their long-term saving goals.
WHY VESTWELL?
With backing from leading FinTech investors, as well as a growing team of dedicated professionals of strong industry pedigree, Vestwell is at the forefront of a much-needed change in a 40-year old industry. Our team believes in the mission we’ve set out to achieve and we are working hard to get there. We’re ambitious, honest, thoughtful, and fun.
Who are we looking for?
We are seeking a Senior Developer Experience (DevEx) Software Engineer to join our team. The DevEx team is focused on the overall experience for all of the Engineers at Vestwell by improving the tooling, infrastructure and documentation that we use to produce software. In this role, you will be responsible for enhancing our existing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure, empowering our developers and test engineers to write, test, and deploy code more efficiently. You will work closely with our SDET team, DevOps team, and agile Engineering Squads to streamline the development lifecycle and drive operational excellence.
Requirements
The Necessities
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on CI/CD, DevOps, or Developer Experience roles.
- Strong experience with Jenkins, Groovy pipeline scripts, and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or JavaScript.
- Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
- Proficiency with AWS cloud services, including EC2, S3, and other relevant tools for scalable infrastructure.
- Proficiency in working with Linux environments.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
- Proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues, with a focus on continuous improvement.
The Extras
- Docker and Containerization experience (or other similar services) for containerization practices, ensuring efficient deployment and management of services.
Day to day, you may additionally…
- Improve and maintain our CI/CD pipeline built on Jenkins using groovy pipeline scripts, ensuring robust and scalable processes that reduce the time and effort required for code integration and deployment.
- Develop and maintain automation tools and scripts in Python, Bash, and JavaScript to support CI/CD operations where existing solutions fall short.
- Collaborate on capturing GitHub settings and permissions in code using Terraform, ensuring a consistent and reproducible environment.
- Act as a key resource for development teams, helping to resolve CI/CD-related issues, and providing guidance on best practices.
- Work closely with DevOps to align on goals and objectives, and with engineering teams to understand their workflows and improve their development experience.
- Advocate for and implement new technologies and practices that will drive efficiency and innovation within our development processes.
- Create and maintain documentation on CI/CD processes and tools, and conduct training sessions to upskill the engineering team.
Our Culture
We aim to follow Agile best practices with a focus on empowering full stack development teams so that they can own a vertical slice of the product, and are empowered to make decisions and create a roadmap for a section of the product and business.
We want squads to be first class citizens, working as a team to define their roadmap and prioritization, that follows best practices in development, automation testing, deploying, and support.
The expected salary range for this position is $140K-160K for New York, $126K-144K for Phoenix, and $133K-152K for Austin.
OUR BENEFITS
We’re a growth stage startup with lots of exciting milestones ahead. We value health and wellness at Vestwell and in addition to a dedicated Employee Wellbeing Committee, we offer competitive health coverage and an open vacation policy. We have adopted a remote-hybrid office policy, but all employees are welcome at our bright, comfortable office with many workspace options in midtown Manhattan so everyone has a setting that is the most productive for them. We provide our team with all the equipment they need (plus a few perks!) to work effectively remotely. Oh, and naturally we have a great 401(k) plan!
OUR PROCESS
It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 - 2 conversations about Vestwell, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but the usual next steps are a skill or experience screen (e.g. a coding interview for an Engineer, a portfolio review for a Designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in-person interview panel after that if the screens go well. Before making an offer, our interview process concludes with a references check stage for your recruiter to meet with a current or former supervisor and peer. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.
For your awareness you will only receive correspondence from recruiting@vestwell.com any other domain not ending in Vestwell.com is not our Recruitment team.
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