Staff Software Engineer, CKD

About this role

At NerdWallet, we’re on a mission to bring clarity to all of life’s financial decisions and every great mission needs a team of exceptional Nerds. We’ve built an inclusive, flexible, and candid culture where you’re empowered to grow, take smart risks, and be unapologetically yourself (cape optional). Whether remote or in-office, we support how you thrive best. We invest in your well-being, development, and ability to make an impact because when one Nerd levels up, we all do.

NerdWallet is looking for a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction for bringing NerdWallet's financial guidance into the AI assistants consumers already use. More and more people start their financial decisions with a conversation instead of a search. We want NerdWallet's trusted guidance to be there when they do.

You'll architect and build NerdWallet's apps and integrations on leading third-party AI platforms. That means production LLM-backed systems that run inside environments we don't control: they have to stay accurate, grounded in trusted content, and compliant in a highly regulated domain, while adapting to fast-moving platform capabilities, protocols, and policies. You'll be the senior technical voice across the platform integration teams and partner closely with the team that owns the shared services these integrations run on.

This is a hands-on role. The ideal candidate writes a lot of code, sets the architectural bar, and makes the engineers around them better.

You're a staff engineer who is energized by building on brand-new platforms where the playbook doesn't exist yet. You'll turn ambiguous product bets into clear technical plans, then build the critical parts yourself. You'll define how NerdWallet shows up across multiple AI platforms, balancing what should be shared against what needs to be platform-specific so each team can move fast and independently. You're a trusted technical advisor to Engineering Managers and Product Managers, you raise the qu...