Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform Architect (Remote)

NerdWallet, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) with company match

Remote-friendly with benefits

Job summary

NerdWallet is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction for AI platform integrations and architect production backends that power NerdWallet's trusted financial guidance across AI assistants.

You will write production code, define platform abstractions, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product and security teams to keep systems compliant and reliable in a fast-moving AI landscape.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with at least 3+ years at Staff level and production backend experience.
• Proven track record in architectural leadership, mentoring engineers, and setting best practices.
• Hands-on experience with LLM-based features: tool use, retrieval, evals, and non-deterministic outputs.
• Strong communication skills to explain system behavior, tradeoffs, and risk to engineers, product partners, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction for AI platform integrations and architecture.
• Write production code for new integrations and prototype platform capabilities.
• Define abstractions and contracts to enable reuse across multiple platforms.
• Guide platform evolution amid changing protocols, SDKs, and policies.
• Define evals, testing strategies, and end-to-end validations across environments.
• Collaborate with Security, Legal, and Compliance to ensure data handling and regulatory requirements.
• Own reliability, performance, monitoring, latency, and incident response for platform services.
• Lead design reviews and mentor engineers across teams.
• Partner with leadership to shape roadmap and prioritize technical bets.
• Use data to drive decisions, analyze usage and performance to identify improvements.

Skills

LLM integrations

TypeScript stack

Backend systems

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Architecture design

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Containerization

Observability

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

NerdWallet is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction for AI platform integrations and architect production backends that power NerdWallet's trusted financial guidance across AI assistants.

You will write production code, define platform abstractions, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product and security teams to keep systems compliant and reliable in a fast-moving AI landscape.