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 Full-Stack Software Engineer focused for our Web Core team. This team focuses on core web initiatives including bringing the core Greenlight functionality on the web for the first time and functioning as a horizontal platform team to support other web teams. This includes setting standards, defining best practices, building common libraries and mentoring other web developers. You will be expected to also make contributions to our backend services as required to accomplish the team deliverables.
This role reports to a Senior Director, Engineering
Technologies we use:
- Node.js
- React, NextJS, Remix
- REST,Express
- AWS, Kubernetes (EKS)
- Kotlin experience preferred
Your day-to-day:
- Product development - Building new experiences for the Greenlight website. Work with domain teams, product managers and designers to bring different parts of the Greenlight mobile application experience to web
- Platform - As part of the web core team, you will have to support all web development within Greenlight. This includes providing mentorship and support for web teams, defining standards, best practices and determining technologies
- Working in a strong team to quickly deliver on our web products.
- Work with product and design teams to continuously add incremental features while balancing new features and tech debt
- Scaling and maintaining our backend services to evolve with new feature requests and support our growing user base
- Improving the reliability and availability of the platform which supports our families and partners
What you’ll bring to the team:
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 6+ years software development experience
- The ability to context switch frequently in a fast-paced environment
- An eye towards performance, scalability, and observability
- Experience building single page applications using a modern framework
- Experience building REST apis
- Recent experience building backend services using node.js.
- Understanding of how to execute well on the build/measure/learn process and lean startup skills
Preferred experience:
- Experience with A/B testing and experimentation
- Experience working with modern MarTech tools such as Segment, Optimizely, Mixpanel, etc
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of software development experience
- Experience building single-page applications using a modern framework
- Experience building REST APIs
- Recent experience building backend services using Node.js
- Ability to context switch frequently in a fast-paced environment
- Understanding of performance, scalability, and observability
- Understanding of build, measure, learn processes and lean startup practices
- Experience with A/B testing and experimentation
- Experience with modern MarTech tools such as Segment, Optimizely, or Mixpanel
- Kotlin experience
What We Do
Greenlight is a debit card and money app for families. Our mission is to shine a light on the world of money for families and empower parents to raise financially-smart kids. Millions of parents and kids use Greenlight to earn, save, spend wisely, give and invest. Parents can set flexible spend controls, manage chores, automate allowances and invest for their kids’ futures. The Greenlight team calls Atlanta home, but we have team members across the country. We’re pet enthusiasts, PTA presidents, fantasy football champs, kickball-mates and volunteer dance teachers. We’re backed by Drive Capital, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, TTV Capital, Relay Ventures, NEA, Amazon, Ally Financial, SunTrust Bank and Synchrony Financial. We were picked for CB Insights’ Fintech 250.
