About Us
Estate planning is vital for anyone who wants to ensure their loved ones are cared for when they’re gone. But traditional estate planning is broken. It’s confusing, expensive, and tedious, and it’s often done without regard to a person’s financial plan. Vanilla is here to change all that. We are reinventing estate planning for financial advisors, attorneys, and their clients. We’re transforming it into an ongoing conversation, where dense legal documents are brought to life through easy-to-understand visualizations, and considered in concert with clients’ financial plans and evolving life milestones and goals.
Vanilla is the world’s first estate advisory platform, built by advisors and estate professionals to help deliver a modern, visual estate planning experience to their clients. Harnessing a purpose-built AI engine called VAI, the Vanilla platform provides valuable insights to advisors and attorneys while demystifying the planning process for clients at all levels of wealth. Vanilla supports the entire estate planning process, including understanding client goals and current plans, visualizing the plan, and strategizing on taxes. Clients can even create trusts, healthcare directives, powers of attorney, and more through Vanilla. The Vanilla platform enables advisors, planners, and attorneys to foster stronger relationships, achieve greater retention, and help their clients build meaningful legacies.
Job Summary
We're currently looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who is passionate about integrating data and design with emerging technologies.
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will work collaboratively with product, engineering, and design teams to deliver powerful cloud-based solutions that drive a user-friendly estate planning experience.
This role is a remote position, you must be based out of one of the following states: CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TX, UT, VA, WA, or WA D.C.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of new features and improvements across our platform.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve the software.
- Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to align on product goals and deliver high-quality solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the engineering team, promoting best practices in code quality, testing, and deployment.
- Design and implement scalable and secure architectures, leveraging AWS services to optimize performance and cost-efficiency.
- Adhere to professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years relevant work experience
- Proficiency in React/Javascript - Typescript experience a plus
- Proficiency in Ruby/Ruby on Rails
- Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as NodeJS, Python, Rust, Go, Java or others
- Experience in GraphQL and APIs
- Expertise in one or more of the major public clouds, preferably AWS
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off policy and 12 company-wide paid holidays
- Parental leave, 4 weeks for all full-time employees and up to 12 weeks for birthing parents
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits coverage for employees and their families
- 401K and employer match eligibility after one month of employment
- Budget for learning & development, health & wellness, and home office setup
- Paid parking or transit for hybrid and in office employees
The salary range for this role is $160,000 to $190,000. Our compensation packages also include a performance based bonus and equity. Compensation is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
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What We Do
Founded in 2019, Vanilla’s product suite was originally built for internal use by AdvicePeriod to create efficiency in explaining the value derived from estate planning and to identify opportunities to add value for clients that would be subject to the estate tax. It quickly became clear that the application and need was much broader than originally contemplated.
Today’s estate planning tools—for advisors, lawyers, and consumers alike—are significantly lacking. Moreover, most advisors spend little time on even the basic components of estate planning. Vanilla was created to squeeze the inefficiency out of document preparation, increase an advisor’s and a client’s understanding of their estate, and to demystify the challenges of dealing with estates post-death.
