Careers at NerdWallet

At NerdWallet, we're building tools and experiences that help people make smarter financial decisions. As a Software Engineer focused on AI & Automation within our Security organization, you'll build production software and AI-enabled systems that make security work more scalable, effective, and developer-friendly across NerdWallet. You'll apply strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on AI experience to automate complex security workflows, build internal platforms and developer tooling, and help us rethink how security engineering operates in an AI-native environment. You do not need to come from a traditional security engineering background. We're looking for an engineer who has built and operated production software and AI-enabled systems, is curious about security, and is excited to develop deeper security expertise while solving meaningful problems at scale. You'll have room to bring new ideas, influence how AI and automation practices evolve at NerdWallet, and shape a growing area within Security. This role reports to the Security Automation Manager. Projects you may be working on in this position include: Designing and building AI-enabled workflows and multi-agent systems that automate security design review, threat modeling, policy Q&A, vulnerability analysis, and other high-value security processes. Building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search experiences across large code and documentation repositories. Creating automated code-review capabilities that help identify insecure patterns and improve software quality earlier in the development lifecycle. Building production Python services and APIs that power AI-enabled security workflows, with thoughtful architecture, authentication, authorization, testing, observability, and reliability. Designing and operating scalable pipelines that ingest, process, index, and retrieve large volumes of code, documents, and events. Improving AI system quality through evaluation frameworks, experiment management, prompt and context management, observability, and evidence-based iteration. Managing practical production tradeoffs such as latency, reliability, model/provider selection, token usage, and cost. Designing integrations with GitHub, Slack, Jira, Confluence, LLM providers, and internal services so security guidance fits naturally into engineering workflows. Applying security controls to AI applications, including prompt injection defenses, sensitive-data handling, access control, supply-chain considerations, and safe model inputs and outputs. Identifying new opportunities for software, automation, and AI augmentation across the Security team and independently moving high-value ideas from problem definition through production. Where you can make an impact: Own technically meaningful software and AI initiatives from problem definition through production and ongoing operation. Help shape how AI and automation are used across NerdWallet Security, including when AI is the right solution and when it is not. Build tools and platforms that make security easier for engineering teams to adopt and use. Improve the speed, consistency, and quality of security workflows through thoughtful software design and automation. Grow into deeper application and AI security expertise while bringing strong software engineering judgment to the team. Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and collaborate with engineers, security partners, and non-technical stakeholders. Your experience: 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production software. Strong Python proficiency, including hands-on experience building production backend services and APIs. Experience designing maintainable backend architectures, including separation of concerns, request/response validation, authentication/authorization, error handling, testing, and observability. Experience developing distributed or cloud-based systems and making practical decisions about scalability, reliability, and performance. Hands-on experience building production AI-enabled applications or automations using LLM APIs, agents/tool use, RAG/retrieval, or comparable architectures. Experience defining, evaluating, and improving the quality of AI-enabled systems in production. Ability to work through ambiguity, identify opportunities independently, and move technical work from idea to implementation. Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions, tradeoffs, and limitations clearly. Interest in secure software development and willingness to build deeper expertise in application security and AI security. Where: This is a remote position and a person can be located anywhere in Canada (with the exception of Quebec). NerdWallet is proud to be a remote-first company! We believe great work can be done anywhere. No matter where you are based, NerdWallet offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your family. What we offer: Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?) Monthly Healthcare Stipend Rejuvenation Policy – Vacation Time Off + You will receive the official public holidays in your province Paid sabbatical for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge and pursue their interests Monthly Wellness Stipend, Wifi Stipend, and Cell Phone Stipend Work from home equipment stipend Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too) Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction Plan for your future (And when you retire on your island, remember the little people) RRSP with a 4% match. Eligible one month after hire. Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar NerdWallet is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, so all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. #LI-DNI

At NerdWallet, we’re on a mission to bring clarity to all of life’s financial decisions​ and every great mission needs a team of exceptional Nerds. We’ve built an inclusive, flexible, and candid culture where you’re empowered to grow, take smart risks, and be unapologetically yourself (cape optional). Whether remote or in-office, we support how you thrive best. We invest in your well-being, development, and ability to make an impact​ because when one Nerd levels up, we all do. Data engineers are the builders behind the insights that drive smarter decisions. They design and scale reliable data pipelines and models that power analytics, experimentation, and strategic decision-making across the company. As a Data Engineer II, you’ll tackle complex, data challenges -partnering closely with your Data Org members. You’ll combine technical expertise with clear communication and thoughtful collaboration to ensure our data systems are not only technically sound, but also deeply aligned with NerdWallet’s strategic goals. You’ll work directly within a product vertical - shaping the data that drives business decisions, product innovation, and user experiences. This is a unique opportunity to see your work translate into real-world outcomes, accelerating NerdWallet’s mission through data that’s closer than ever to the business. You’ll design, develop, and maintain data systems and pipelines that serve as the foundation for analytics and product innovation in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment. The right candidate is comfortable adapting to shifting priorities. This role sits within Data Org and reports to a Senior Manager of Data Engineering. You’ll join a passionate team of Nerds who believe clean, scalable data is at the heart of helping consumers make smarter financial decisions. Where you can make an impact: Lead well-scoped data assets - accurate, reliable, documented, aligned to stakeholder needs. Build and improve pipelines using established patterns, focused on maintainability, scalability and quality. Solve moderately complex problems independently; escalate when tradeoffs or dependencies call for broader input. Strengthen pipeline reliability and observability - monitor jobs, investigate failures, improve tests, prevent recurrence. Communicate clearly with cross-functional partners on requirements, assumptions and progress. Break down ambiguous work, ask thoughtful questions and partner with senior engineers on the path forward. Prioritize by impact, urgency, risk - communicate tradeoffs as scope or timing shifts. Apply sound judgment on implementation; seek feedback to sharpen design and execution. Write clean, tested, documented code; adopt modern practices, including AI-enabled tooling. Grow technical depth over time - take on harder workstreams, learn from feedback, reviews and mentorship. Your experience: 3+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, software engineering, or related. Hands-on with modern data stack tools: AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Databricks, or similar. Strong SQL; working proficiency in Python for pipeline development, transformation, automation, debugging. Comfortable with AI-assisted tools like Cursor or GitHub Copilot. Working knowledge of relational databases, data modeling, query performance. Experience building and troubleshooting pipelines in production. Familiarity with data quality, monitoring, logging, testing, observability. Logical problem-solving - define issues, investigate anomalies, draw sound conclusions. Comfortable within established patterns, alert to opportunities to improve them. Strong written and verbal communication, clear across engineering, analyst, and business audiences. Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience. Where: This role will be remote (based in the U.S.). We believe great work can be done anywhere. No matter where you are based, NerdWallet offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your family. What we offer: Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?) Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care Mental health support Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend) Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends) Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too) Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction Our Nerds love to make an impact by paying it forward – Take 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter and donate to your favorite causes with a company match Plan for your future (And when you retire on your island, remember the little people) 401K with 4% company match Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here . NerdWallet is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, so all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. NerdWallet will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act and the San Francisco Fair Chance Act, which requires this notice , as well as the Los Angeles Fair Chance Act, which requires this notice . NerdWallet participates in the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services E-Verify program for all US locations. For more information, please see: E-Verify Participation Poster (English+Spanish/Español ) Right to Work Poster (English) / (Spanish/Español) #LI-Remote

At NerdWallet, we’re on a mission to bring clarity to all of life’s financial decisions and every great mission needs a team of exceptional Nerds. We’ve built an inclusive, flexible, and candid culture where you’re empowered to grow, take smart risks, and be unapologetically yourself (cape optional). Whether remote or in-office, we support how you thrive best. We invest in your well-being, development, and ability to make an impact because when one Nerd levels up, we all do. The Consumer Credit Cards team owns web shopping experiences for one of NerdWallet's largest and most mission-critical verticals, serving millions of users making real financial decisions. You'll work across a modern full-stack: Next.js and React on the frontend, GraphQL federation and Node.js services on the backend, deployed on edge infrastructure built for scale and speed. Page performance and Core Web Vitals directly move rankings, conversion, and revenue, so the technical work here has a visible, measurable business impact. We build fast, and we build with data: rapid product-led experimentation, direct input into the company's strategic roadmap, and close collaboration with Paid Marketing and SEO strategists to turn engineering decisions into business outcomes. If you thrive on high-impact work, solving technical challenges, and shaping the future of financial shopping experiences on the web, this is the place for you. We're looking for a hands-on player coach Engineering Manager to lead the Consumer Credit Cards Marketplaces team. You act as a pace setter and multiplier for the team, helping to mentor and build your team up to your standards of execution. You'll be deeply involved with the technical day-to-day of the team, helping the team to deliver on the product backlog, contributing to the engineering excellence roadmap, setting architectural direction and ensuring high-quality delivery throughout. You'll be diving in when needed to help set the standards and drive quality. You'll also be responsible for the people management for a team of 3-4 engineers: 1-on-1s, career development and performance management. You bring strong technical judgement to the role, having experience being the senior-most engineer on your team. You avoid micromanagement, choosing to lead through influence and mutual respect rather than authority. You're as excited about delivering high-quality work as you are finding opportunities to unlock growth for your people. You embrace AI development tools and modern engineering practices, focusing on balancing quality with delivery velocity. You're using AI tools to reshape the Software Development Lifecycle, delegating as much to your team as you are to agentic workflows. You will help the team build out a robust AI developer harness, utilize a consistent spec-driven development workflow and integrate AI skills into every facet of process: from architecture & planning to development, QA, code review and release. You are creating agentic workflows to automate away the toil from your day to day, as well as your team's, with the right guardrails in place to keep quality and compliance high as you go. You'll collaborate closely with stakeholders from across the organization, including: SEO strategists, Paid Marketers, Product, Business Development, Data & Analytics, etc. to drive meaningful business value, focusing your efforts on growing the business rather than engineering for the sake of it. This role reports to the Head of Engineering for Consumer Banking, Credit Cards & New Markets. Where you can make an impact: Own both the technical direction and the people outcomes for a team building some of NerdWallet's highest-traffic web shopping experiences. Drive architecture, technical decisions, planning, and milestones. Build and evolve the team's AI dev harness and orchestrate agentic automations across the software lifecycle, from spec to review to deployment. Develop your engineers' AI-era skills: effective prompting, spec-writing, and reviewing AI-generated code and designs. Manage and develop your engineers: run 1:1s, give feedback, set growth plans, and hold a performance bar. Take input from and partner directly with engineering leadership to drive technical initiatives that enhance performance, observability, scalability, security, and developer experience. Contribute to platform stability and resilience through effective monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident management. Ensure high standards of technical excellence, maintaining a high-quality codebase and driving modernization efforts including AI tooling adoption. Your experience: We recognize not everyone will meet all of the criteria. If you meet most of the criteria below and you're excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we'd love to hear from you. 8+ years in software engineering with a strong background as a hands-on Technical Lead. Expertise in TypeScript, React and Node.js, with experience in additional modern languages. Strong experience with modern front-end frameworks such as Next.js and React.js, with an understanding of web performance, Core Web Vitals, and technical SEO. Experience architecting and building back-end APIs and microservices, with a focus on scalability, performance, and data integrity. Strong understanding of database systems (both SQL and NoSQL), with experience in high-volume data processing. Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Knowledge of security and compliance best practices, particularly in financial services. Experience in observability and running production applications, especially marketplaces, at scale. Hands-on experience with AI development tools and advanced AI-enabled development workflows: building a development harness, agentic automations / workflows, spec-driven development, etc. Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). Experience with integrating Machine Learning systems, personalization pipelines, and data-driven experimentation. Domain knowledge in finance and shopping marketplaces. Understanding of accessibility best practices and a keen eye for usability and user experience. Familiarity with paid and organic search strategies and how engineering decisions impact business outcomes. What we offer: Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?) Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care Mental health support Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend) Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends) Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too) Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction Our Nerds love to make an impact by paying it forward – Take 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter and donate to your favorite causes with a company match Plan for your future (And when you retire on your island, remember the little people) 401K with 4% company match Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here . NerdWallet is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, so all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. NerdWallet will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act and the San Francisco Fair Chance Act, which requires this notice , as well as the Los Angeles Fair Chance Act, which requires this notice . NerdWallet participates in the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services E-Verify program for all US locations. For more information, please see: E-Verify Participation Poster (English+Spanish/Español ) Right to Work Poster (English) / (Spanish/Español) #LI-Remote

At NerdWallet, we’re on a mission to bring clarity to all of life’s financial decisions and every great mission needs a team of exceptional Nerds. We’ve built an inclusive, flexible, and candid culture where you’re empowered to grow, take smart risks, and be unapologetically yourself (cape optional). Whether remote or in-office, we support how you thrive best. We invest in your well-being, development, and ability to make an impact because when one Nerd levels up, we all do. NerdWallet is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a customer-facing product team building across our React Native mobile app and our Next.js web experiences. NerdWallet's mobile app is at an inflection point. We are a trusted financial brand, and we are building an app that is “your money's smartest friend” on top of credit bureau and financial institution data, alongside a rich library of content from Nerdy financial experts. We are also evolving from a traditional product development model to a fully AI-native workflow, shifting from writing to building for product definition, and from human-written code to AI-generated code. Our three-year vision moves us from demand capture to demand creation, from waiting to be found to finding our customers in the financial moments that matter most in their lives. Successful candidates will have already led a product engineering team through the AI shift, will bring strong product and business instincts, and will hold a real performance bar for the people they lead. This person will lead a team through both the product ambition and the workflow shift at once, shipping the experiences that deepen how millions of users connect with their financial lives. This role reports to the Senior Director, Engineering. You are: A leader and a coach, accountable for your team's outcomes, its people, and its craft. You built software before you led people building it, and you have not left that behind, so you bring strong technical experience and judgment into conversations about what we build. You are not the team's technical lead. You draw the technical vision out of your most senior engineers and unlock it. You have your own point of view on what is worth building, what the data can support, and what AI can build and extend, and you bring recommendations to your Product and Design partners rather than questions. You think in systems rather than features, and you lead the team to build capabilities that compound instead of a growing list of one-off features. You hold a high performance bar for the people you lead, you develop them, and you lead the team through change rather than waiting for it. You collaborate laterally and operate as a peer to the other Engineering Managers in the organization. The product and business instincts you bring raises the bar for every team here, not just your own. Where you can make an impact: Own the outcomes of a customer-facing team of senior engineers building across our React Native mobile app and our Next.js web experiences. Shape the roadmap alongside Product and Design and have your own point of view on what is worth building, what the data can actually support, and what AI can build and extend. Lead the team to build systems that compound instead of a growing list of one-off features, so that what we ship next is cheaper and better because of what we shipped last. Lead an AI-native team and own how your team plans, defines, builds, reviews, and tests as AI reshapes each of those steps. A track record of managing to a high performance bar, delivering hard feedback, resetting expectations with someone falling short, and visibly investing in your strongest people. Make high-quality calls on when to trade polish for speed to learn, get real customer feedback into the team's hands fast, and hold the accuracy and reliability bar that financial advice people will act on requires. You built software before you led people building it, and you have not left that behind. Peer teams, partners, and leadership should know your team's strategy, roadmap, rationale, and progress. When the way we work needs to change, make the case, carry it with conviction, and stay with it until the new way is how the team actually operates. Your experience: 8+ years in software engineering, including hands-on individual contributor experience. 2+ years managing engineering teams. This is not a first-time management role. Experience managing software engineers with accountability for a team's outcomes rather than its delivery dates alone, and the ability to name what your team changed for customers or the business. Experience leading an AI-native product engineering team, including specifics on what broke, and what you would do differently. Strong product and business instincts. A view on what to build, what to cut, and what the smallest test is that would tell us whether we are right. A track record of delivering hard feedback, resetting expectations with someone falling short, and visibly investing in your strongest people. Technical credibility on a modern web or mobile product stack, with the ability to engage engineers on architecture and tradeoffs. Comfort operating in ambiguity. Experience with data, experimentation, and measurement as the basis for product decisions. Experience hiring engineers and holding a bar while doing it Preferred Qualifications: Experience in consumer fintech. Experience with React Native, Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and Apollo, or a comparable cross-platform mobile and web stack. Experience with personalization, recommendation, and systems built on customer data. Experience partnering with compliance and security on tradeoffs across speed, reliability, and risk. Experience defining an operating model rather than inheriting one. Experience coaching other managers, formally or informally. Where: This role will be remote (based in the U.S.). We believe great work can be done anywhere. No matter where you are based, NerdWallet offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your family. What we offer: Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?) Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care Mental health support Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend) Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends) Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too) Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction Our Nerds love to make an impact by paying it forward – Take 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter and donate to your favorite causes with a company match Plan for your future (And when you retire on your island, remember the little people) 401K with 4% company match Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here . NerdWallet is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, so all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. NerdWallet will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act and the San Francisco Fair Chance Act, which requires this notice , as well as the Los Angeles Fair Chance Act, which requires this notice . NerdWallet participates in the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services E-Verify program for all US locations. For more information, please see: E-Verify Participation Poster (English+Spanish/Español ) Right to Work Poster (English) / (Spanish/Español) #LI-Remote

At NerdWallet, we're building tools and experiences that help people make smarter financial decisions. As a Software Engineer focused on AI & Automation within our Security organization, you'll build production software and AI-enabled systems that make security work more scalable, effective, and developer-friendly across NerdWallet. You'll apply strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on AI experience to automate complex security workflows, build internal platforms and developer tooling, and help us rethink how security engineering operates in an AI-native environment. You do not need to come from a traditional security engineering background. We're looking for an engineer who has built and operated production software and AI-enabled systems, is curious about security, and is excited to develop deeper security expertise while solving meaningful problems at scale. You'll have room to bring new ideas, influence how AI and automation practices evolve at NerdWallet, and shape a growing area within Security. This role reports to the Security Automation Manager. Projects you may be working on in this position include: Designing and building AI-enabled workflows and multi-agent systems that automate security design review, threat modeling, policy Q&A, vulnerability analysis, and other high-value security processes. Building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search experiences across large code and documentation repositories. Creating automated code-review capabilities that help identify insecure patterns and improve software quality earlier in the development lifecycle. Building production Python services and APIs that power AI-enabled security workflows, with thoughtful architecture, authentication, authorization, testing, observability, and reliability. Designing and operating scalable pipelines that ingest, process, index, and retrieve large volumes of code, documents, and events. Improving AI system quality through evaluation frameworks, experiment management, prompt and context management, observability, and evidence-based iteration. Managing practical production tradeoffs such as latency, reliability, model/provider selection, token usage, and cost. Designing integrations with GitHub, Slack, Jira, Confluence, LLM providers, and internal services so security guidance fits naturally into engineering workflows. Applying security controls to AI applications, including prompt injection defenses, sensitive-data handling, access control, supply-chain considerations, and safe model inputs and outputs. Identifying new opportunities for software, automation, and AI augmentation across the Security team and independently moving high-value ideas from problem definition through production. Where you can make an impact: Own technically meaningful software and AI initiatives from problem definition through production and ongoing operation. Help shape how AI and automation are used across NerdWallet Security, including when AI is the right solution and when it is not. Build tools and platforms that make security easier for engineering teams to adopt and use. Improve the speed, consistency, and quality of security workflows through thoughtful software design and automation. Grow into deeper application and AI security expertise while bringing strong software engineering judgment to the team. Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and collaborate with engineers, security partners, and non-technical stakeholders. Your experience: 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production software. Strong Python proficiency, including hands-on experience building production backend services and APIs. Experience designing maintainable backend architectures, including separation of concerns, request/response validation, authentication/authorization, error handling, testing, and observability. Experience developing distributed or cloud-based systems and making practical decisions about scalability, reliability, and performance. Hands-on experience building production AI-enabled applications or automations using LLM APIs, agents/tool use, RAG/retrieval, or comparable architectures. Experience defining, evaluating, and improving the quality of AI-enabled systems in production. Ability to work through ambiguity, identify opportunities independently, and move technical work from idea to implementation. Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions, tradeoffs, and limitations clearly. Interest in secure software development and willingness to build deeper expertise in application security and AI security. Where: This role will be remote (based in the U.S.). We believe great work can be done anywhere. No matter where you are based, NerdWallet offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your family. What we offer: Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?) Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care Mental health support Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend) Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends) Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too) Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction Our Nerds love to make an impact by paying it forward – Take 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter and donate to your favorite causes with a company match Plan for your future (And when you retire on your island, remember the little people) 401K with 4% company match Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here . NerdWallet is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, so all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. NerdWallet will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act and the San Francisco Fair Chance Act, which requires this notice , as well as the Los Angeles Fair Chance Act, which requires this notice . NerdWallet participates in the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services E-Verify program for all US locations. For more information, please see: E-Verify Participation Poster (English+Spanish/Español ) Right to Work Poster (English) / (Spanish/Español) #LI-DNI