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Senior Backend Engineer, Growth Team

A financial wellness app helping everyday people and families save and invest money for the long term.
$184,500 - $217,100
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
501 - 1,000 Employees
6+ years of experience
Finance
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Description For Senior Backend Engineer, Growth Team

Acorns, a leading financial wellness app with over 14 million users and $25 billion in investments, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for their Growth team. This role offers the flexibility of remote work or office locations in Irvine, CA, or New York, NY. The position focuses on building and maintaining scalable services that support user onboarding and financial education for millions of customers.

The Growth team operates with high autonomy and promotes an operational-centric, customer-first culture. The tech stack includes modern technologies like GraphQL, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, DynamoDB, Lambda, and various AWS services. As a senior engineer, you'll be responsible for designing and implementing customer-facing services, improving system performance, and leading technical initiatives.

The role offers competitive compensation ranging from $184,500 to $217,100, along with comprehensive benefits including stock options, 401(k) matching, flexible work arrangements, and various wellness resources. Acorns values continuous learning and development, offering career development programs and leadership opportunities.

The ideal candidate brings 6-10+ years of relevant experience, strong expertise in database systems, API design, and software engineering practices. They should be passionate about delivering high-quality solutions and align with Acorns' mission of democratizing financial wellness for everyday people and families.

Working at Acorns means joining a mission-driven company that's creating meaningful impact in the fintech space, with values centered around leading with heart, making bold decisions, building trust, continuous growth, and finding solutions to challenges.

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Responsibilities For Senior Backend Engineer, Growth Team

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, customer-facing services
  • Improve performance and reliability of existing systems
  • Contribute to process improvements around code reviews, deployments, and testing
  • Take active role in defining technical evolution of services
  • Collaborate with engineering and product teams
  • Support production on-call rotation
  • Lead collaboration with other teams to ensure operational health

Requirements For Senior Backend Engineer, Growth Team

TypeScript
Node.js
Ruby
  • 6-10+ years of relevant experience building and supporting production software
  • Expertise with SQL and/or NoSQL databases
  • Experience leading API design and implementation (REST/GraphQL)
  • Strong understanding of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms
  • Strong understanding of algorithms, time complexity, data structures and design patterns
  • Strong track record of good software engineering practices

Benefits For Senior Backend Engineer, Growth Team

401k
Medical Insurance
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
Equity
Parental Leave
  • Competitive salary and stock options
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Flexible work location, hours, and paid time off
  • 401(k) matching
  • Monthly Acorns account contribution & GoHenry account for family
  • Mindfulness and Financial Wellness resources
  • Career Development Program
  • Roots Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders