Junior Full Stack Engineer
WHO ARE WE?
Vestwell believes that all Americans should have easy access to a retirement account, which is why we’ve created a digital platform that makes it simpler to offer and administer 401(k) plans. We have built a digital-first platform designed to reset the bar to power a $30T industry.
Our focus is to build the most flexible, powerful workplace savings and investment platform, delivered through the hands and minds of our financial services partners with the help of payroll providers. We make the hard stuff look easy, by combining the expertise of financial advice with the sophistication of a technology provider.
As a result, financial advisors get to provide the advice and solution that employers and employees have been asking for, while growing and scaling along the way. Employers get a cost-effective solution design for their needs without the headache, and employees get a user-friendly portal that helps them achieve their long-term saving goals.
WHY VESTWELL?
With backing from leading Fin-Tech 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-yr old industry. Our team believes in the mission we’ve set out to achieve and we’re working hard to get there. We’re ambitious, honest, thoughtful, and fun.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
The Engineering team is seeking a Junior level Full Stack Engineer, who is willing to participate and be mentored on all levels of our application stack, and is willing to play all necessary roles within an Engineering team in a Startup environment.
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 roadmap out a section of the product and business.
You’re a great fit for our team if you can balance detail-oriented tasks with long term strategy and scale initiatives. Most of all, you must be passionate about what you create and about the impact it can have. That matters to us, a lot.
REQUIREMENTS
Necessary Experience
- Track record of finishing and shipping Web Development projects
- Bootcamp or CS Degree, with 0-2 years of professional Experience working as a Web Developer
- Strong communication skills, with a willingness to both mentor, and be mentored
- Willingness to both work collaboratively with other engineers, and take independent ownership over projects
- Ability to break abstract problems down into smaller deliverable tasks
Preferred Experience
- Java, Scala, or other compiled server-side languages
- Node, React, and other Js technologies
- Microservice architecture patterns
- Devops or sysops background, especially with Docker, and AWS services
- An understanding of SRE best practices, such as post-mortems, logging, alerting, and toil reduction
At this job you will gain experience in:
- Extending core business logic across multiple shared codebases and services
- Architecting, modifying, and working with SQL-based Databases
- Developing, maintaining, and supporting automation test suites
- Experience building, specifying, and consuming RESTful APIs
- Working closely with Product, QA, and other Engineers, in a cross functional vertical team, and a willingness to play any role necessary within that team
Day to day, you may additionally…
- Participant in Code Reviews with other Engineers
- Collaborate closely with other Engineers and the rest of the Vestwell team to determine architecture for our core services
- Work with both engineering and product teams to drive solution design
- Work with QA to help test/automate testing
- 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 infrastructure
BENEFITS
We’re a growth stage startup with lots of exciting milestones ahead. We value health and wellness at Vestwell and, as such, offer competitive health coverage and an open vacation policy. We also have a bright, comfortable office with lots of workspace options in midtown Manhattan so you can be as productive as possible, and we hope to be back there once we’ve beaten this virus. In the meantime, we provide the 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!