Staff Backend Software Engineer

Guideline is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our expanding engineering team. You will join a distributed team of 40+ including remote employees and employees based near our offices. As a Backend Engineer on an agile team, you will build upon our growing line of products that bring the possibility of a safe retirement to more people.

What You Will Work On

• Scope projects and design systems architecture for usability and scaling both all products.
• Develop APIs for web and mobile applications that manage sensitive financial assets and core business logic.
• Work with a group of passionate technologists to help automate administrative tasks that allow our customers easy and accessible access to retirement planning.
• Lay the groundwork for further expansion into other financial services past 20,000 customers.

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of experience building services that support consumer-facing software products
• Ability to program in at least one backend language like Ruby, Python, Go etc.
• Working knowledge of relational databases, designing APIs, and security lifecycle best practices.
• Familiarity with (or wants to learn) how to run modern distributed systems environments built with Kubernetes, Docker, and GCP

We understand that not everyone will be an expert in all of these areas on Day One. We value people who enjoy learning and will consider someone with the fundamentals who wants to further their skills.

More About Guideline

At Guideline, we're helping people save for a better future. In an industry full of complicated pricing and excessive fees, we offer affordable 401(k) plans with no transaction fees.

With over 25,000 clients and 5 billion dollars in assets under management, in just a few years of operations, we're well on our way to making smart retirement planning easy for everyone.

We have raised $344M to date with top-tier investors, including our most recent $200 million dollar Series E round with General Atlantic.

Offer Package

• Great compensation package + Equity in the Company
• Flexible Vacation Policy
• 401(k) Matching
• 100% coverage of Health / Vision / Dental
• Generous parental leave policy

Guideline provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.