Greenlight is a family technology company on a mission to help families raise financially smart kids and navigate life together. Its suite of products — including the Greenlight app, debit card, Safe Family GPS trackers, and Family Hub — brings together financial tools, safety features, and everyday family management in one connected experience. Designed for busy families who want convenience without compromise, Greenlight continues to innovate alongside the evolving needs of modern life. Today, more than 6.5 million family members trust Greenlight to stay in sync.
At Greenlight, we're here to make the day-to-day easier and futures brighter, so families can spend less time managing life, and more time living it. That's why we get out of bed every morning.
Greenlight is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack for our Web Core team. This is an exceptional, high-impact opportunity to help bring Greenlight's core product functionality to the web. As part of a horizontal platform team, you'll build and evolve the foundational systems that power web experiences across the organization, partnering with product and engineering teams to enable scalable, high-quality development. In addition to contributing across our frontend and backend services, you'll provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and help drive engineering excellence across the platform.
This role reports to a Director, Engineering.
Technologies we use:
Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Modern build tools (Turborepo, etc.), Testing (Cypress, React Testing Library, Jest).
Backend & Infrastructure: Node.js, Express, TypeScript, REST APIs, Kubernetes (EKS).
Your day-to-day:
Lead the design and implementation of groundbreaking web experiences, translating mobile features to the web with world-class UX.
Drive technical strategy, define engineering standards/best practices, mentor engineers, and establish the technical vision for the web platform.
Manage technical debt, champion code quality, and lead architectural evolution.
Design, modify, and develop backend services that power web products, ensuring systems scale and championing system reliability, performance, and observability.
What you’ll bring to the team:
BS in Computer Science or equivalent
7+ years of software development experience with a track record of technical leadership
Deep expertise in React/Next.js/Remix
Strong experience building REST APIs and backend services with Node.js/TypeScript
Experience with modern build tools, testing, and CI/CD.
Preferred experience:
Experience with A/B testing/experimentation and modern MarTech tools (Segment, Optimizely, Mixpanel, Amplitude).
Our stance on salaries:
Greenlight provides a competitive compensation package with a market-based approach to pay and will vary depending on your location, experience and skill set. The total compensation package for this position will also include a discretionary performance bonus, equity rewards, medical benefits, 401K match, and more. Greenlight conducts continuous compensation evaluations across departments and geographies to ensure we are keeping our pay current and competitive.
The estimated base pay range for this position in (NY, CA, WA): $142,000- 210,000
The estimated base pay range for this position in (CO): $142,000- 177,000
Who we are:
It takes a talented team to aim for a mission like ours. We're looking for people who ask "is it bold enough?" People who bring their real selves to the table and push the people around them to do the same. We win by never hesitating to jump in, offer a hand, or share the credit, because we know we're stronger together than apart. And through all of it, the mission stays the thing we measure ourselves against: are we doing right by the families counting on us? If that sounds like your kind of team, we'd love for you to apply.
Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on age, race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
Greenlight is committed to an inclusive work environment and interview experience. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in our hiring process, please reach out to your recruiter directly or email accomodations@greenlight.me.
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