Betterment

Sr. Staff Engineer

Betterment HQ - New York City · Staff+

No sponsorship$230k-$270kDetected 20 days ago

TypeScriptPythonJavaC#RubyReactFull-Stack DevelopmentGraphQLLLMsMentoring

About the role

As Sr Staff Engineer, you will work with a team of senior/staff engineers delivering an expanding set of AI capabilities as well as shared infrastructure, LLM evaluation frameworks, and internal libraries.
This role is based out of our NYC office.
Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position.

The AI Platform team enables product teams across Betterment to build useful AI-powered features quickly, enjoyably, and responsibly.
Partner with product teams to ship customer-facing AI functionality to production. Develop broad Betterment domain expertise in the process.
Partner with legal and compliance leaders to scale processes that enable teams to build AI functionality quickly and responsibly within a regulated financial services environment.
Work with a team of senior/staff engineers building the foundation that enables all Betterment teams to deploy AI features.
Define and drive Betterment's AI platform strategy - the shared infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, internal libraries, and guardrails that allow product teams to build AI features with confidence and speed.
Lead high-leverage projects that expand our organization's AI technical capabilities, where AI organically enhances existing product value.
Partner with product teams to ship customer-facing AI functionality to production.
Develop broad Betterment domain expertise in the process.

Deep expertise in LLM systems, including prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and evaluation systems.
Experience operating AI features in production, ensuring quality and auditability via online and offline validation, automated monitoring, and human-in--the-loop oversight.
Comfort operating at the frontier.
Proven track record leading successful projects that affect and development workflows used by multiple teams.
Fullstack development experience including React, GraphQL, and one or more server-side languages (Ruby, Java, TypeScript, C#, Python, etc.)

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.
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.

Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position.
The range listed is just one component of Betterment's total compensation package for employees.

Equity for all employees, including new hire and refresher grants.
Flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, and a fully paid four-week sabbatical in your sixth year.
This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.

Company-paid professional coaching for all employees.
You will collaborate with product and compliance partners to ensure Betterment's AI capabilities are developed with the rigor that our customers and regulators expect.

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