Staff Mobile Engineer – Platform
TLDR
Lead and enhance shared mobile infrastructure while collaborating closely with product teams to streamline feature delivery and improve the overall developer experience at Betterment.
About Betterment
Betterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing, savings and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission, to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (four days/ week in-office, with no required office days during the summer and winter holidays).
About the role
As a Staff Mobile Engineer on the Mobile Platform team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the shared mobile infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling that power Betterment’s applications. You’ll play a key role in shaping the developer experience for mobile engineers across the company, ensuring that teams can deliver features quickly, safely, and sustainably.
Platform engineering at Betterment enables engineers across the organization to ship great code with confidence. Our team works closely with product engineers to deliver cross-cutting capabilities, infrastructure, and frameworks that unlock faster delivery while maintaining quality. We tackle the most interesting technical challenges of scale, architecture, and developer experience to create an app platform that delights both our customers and our engineers.
This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees.
- New York City: $200,000 – $228,000
This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.
A day in the life
- Build and maintain the shared React Native frameworks, libraries, and developer tooling that mobile product teams use to deliver customer-facing features
- Partner with engineers across engineering to improve reliability, performance, and security of our mobile apps
- Lead medium-to-large scale platform initiatives, balancing tradeoffs to ship high-quality solutions continuously and iteratively
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and fellow engineers to ensure platform capabilities align with business and customer needs
- Teach and Learn. As a Staff Engineer, we expect you to share your knowledge with new, junior, and senior engineers. Help mentor and grow our team professionally as well as learn from our leaders to level up your own talents.
- Solve “impossible” problems. Take your ideas to the next level right away. We experiment, iterate, learn, and repeat.
- Collaborate, with purpose. You’ll work in small groups with other talented thinkers and figure out how to make Betterment’s revolutionary software even better.
- Identify and address strategic technical challenges that have long-term impact across Betterment’s mobile engineering organization
- Contribute to an engineering culture that values clean code, rigorous testing, pragmatic programming, and continuous improvement
What we’re looking for
- Strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and React Native development and familiarity with the underlying iOS and Android platforms. Experience with Flutter is nice to have!
- Experience designing and maintaining shared libraries, frameworks, or infrastructure for mobile applications
- Familiarity with GraphQL and mobile networking best practices
- Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, and performance considerations in mobile apps
- Experience leading large platform migrations and driving adoption
- Ensure high standards for code quality, test coverage, accessibility, and performance
- Debug and resolve complex production issues across devices and OS versions
- Have a commitment to upskilling teammates through feedback, pairing, and mentorship
- Strong track record leading projects, driving adoption of platform improvements, and making pragmatic tradeoffs while maintaining quality
- Collaborative mindset and excitement to partner with teammates across multiple teams within engineering, design, and product
- Passion for software engineering, developer experience, and creating what doesn’t yet exist
- Appreciation of agility and pragmatism in software development
- The ability to thrive in a startup-like environment, balancing autonomy with collaboration
Join a team built on these core values
We change lives
Be a part of a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact, always laddering up to our mission; to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease.
We set audacious goals
We set them for the company, our customers, and ourselves, and we won’t stop until we reach them. We don’t just show up; we give our all, then celebrate our wins.
We value all perspectives
When we collaborate, we're at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.
We simplify financial services
We’re financial services pioneers, always finding new ways to improve, optimize, and enhance. Constant improvement is in our DNA.
Our Commitment to Your Total Well-being:
- We offer a competitive suite of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability; infertility support and WPATH-aligned transgender health benefits; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); transit benefits and FSA and HSA options
- Ownership: Equity for all employees, including new hire and refresher grants.
- Time: Flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, and a fully paid four-week sabbatical in your sixth year.
- Growth: Company-paid professional coaching for all employees.
- Wealth: Day-one 401(k) match plus matching on qualified student loan payments.
What happens next
We’ll take a few weeks to review all applications. If we’d like to spend more time with you, we’ll reach out to arrange next steps, which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.
In the interview process, we’ll look to learn more about your skills, experiences, capabilities, and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments, as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions.
On average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.
We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career, and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!
Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process, please reach out to your recruiter.
Please note that in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Come join us!
We’re an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, predisposing genetic characteristic, domestic violence victim status, arrest records, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
Betterment provides technology-driven financial services focused on investing and retirement solutions for individual investors and financial advisors. Our offerings also include financial wellness tools, like 401(k) plans tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, making financial growth accessible and straightforward.
- Founded
- Founded 2008
- Employees
- 201-500 employees
- Industry
- Diversified Financial Services
- Total raised
- $280M raised