[Hiring] Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer @Acorns

Role Description

Acorns, the financial wellness app, is building a new Community product team from scratch. This is a small, senior group with a single mandate: Get people addicted to saving by unlocking network effects inside Acorns. This team understands how to create engagement loops, virality, and habit formation. We want people who’ve mastered those mechanics and are ready to use them for something that improves people’s lives.

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer on this team, you’ll build the systems and features that power Acorns’ organic growth engine. You’ll own your features end-to-end:

• API design
• Server logic
• Implementation
• Instrumentation
• Iteration

You’ll work directly with the CEO, a Senior Product Manager, and a Senior Product Designer. This is end-to-end ownership from early concept through shipped product on features where what you build will reach millions of people who are often investing for the first time.

Qualifications

• Built social or engagement systems at scale with feeds, referral flows, notification infrastructure, social graphs, or real-time interactions at a gaming or consumer social company
• Owned a feature end-to-end across the full stack
• Shipped production features across more than one client platform (iOS, Android, or Web)
• Instrumented a growth or engagement feature with analytics events
• Worked in a fast-moving, low-process environment
• Used AI-assisted development tools as genuine accelerators
• Written production code or had exposure in two or more of the following technologies: Swift, Kotlin, React Native, Typescript, Dart, or Python
• Built something out of personal interest

Requirements

• Build the mechanics that make a product spread including referral systems, social sharing flows, engagement loops, and real-time features
• Own features end-to-end from data model to shipped customer experience
• Deliver features across iOS, Android, Web, and backend services
• Instrument your work properly: define the events, build the visibility, and use data to iterate fast
• Take full ownership of the technical bar and architecture
• Partner directly with the CEO, a Senior PM, and a Senior Designer

Benefits

• Compensation range: $174,800 to $205,700/year plus variable compensation
• Base pay may vary depending on market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience
• Total compensation may include equity grants and discretionary cash bonus awards
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
• 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits

Company Description

Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps everyday people and families save and invest money for the long term. Since 2014, Acorns has grown into a global company with multiple life-stage products serving the needs of kids, teens, adults, and parents. Named one of Time’s “World’s Best Brands of 2024,” Acorns has helped over 14 million people save & invest over $25 billion dollars, much of it from spare change and small amounts.