Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack Javascript)

Who Are We Looking For?The Engineering team is looking for an experienced Full Stack Javascript Engineer to join our growing Austin, Texas team. You're a great fit for this role if you have extensive knowledge of the Javascript ecosystem and want to help us build and maintain modern software solutions in an antiquated financial industry.You have a strong ability to balance detail-oriented tasks with long term strategy, are adaptable and willing to take ownership over a vertical slice of a product. You have great communication skills that empowers you to collaborate cross-functionally with non-technical operational teams and are able to understand and solve their problems. You value the importance of data integrity when working with highly regulated and secure products.RequirementsThe Necessities• Extensive professional frontend and backend Javascript and Typescript experience in an Agile organization• Experience with JSX/TSX (ReactJS) and thorough understanding of functional components, hooks and commonly used libraries like React Query and Material UI.• Experience with Nest.js• Ability to develop, maintain, and support automation test suites• Professional experience with SQL-based databases• Experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs• Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers and non-technical stakeholders• Have worked with and/or managed remote Engineers• Professional experience using Github and its enterprise toolingThe Extras• Professional experience with GraphQL• Microservice architecture experience using Docker• DevOps or SysOps experience• Familiarity with AWS• An understanding of SRE best practices, such as postmortems, logging, alerting, and toil reduction• Experience with CI/CD and automation pipelines using Jenkins• Proven ability to mentor less experienced developersDay to day, you may additionally…• Partner with, understand problems of, and create solutions for business operations teams• Collaborate closely with other Engineers and the rest of the Vestwell team to determine architecture for upcoming projects• Work with both engineering and product teams to drive solution design• Create complex logical frameworks, workflows, RESTful API endpoints, and JSON formats to exchange key data with the rest of the platform• Help plan, automate, and scale our infrastructureOur CultureWe 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.180k-200k for New York, 171k-190k for Austin, 162k-180k for Phoenix