Senior Software Engineer, Platform at Savvy

ABOUT SAVVY WEALTH: Wealth management is a $545 billion industry in the US, yet remains archaic and inefficient with low technology penetration. 75% of financial advisors don’t offer digital communication beyond email, and 62% still build financial plans manually in Excel. This leads to a poor client experience and results in financial advisors spending over 70% of their time on non-client facing, manual work. Savvy is changing that. We’re building the most advisor-centric platform in wealth management: a digital-first solution that modernizes human financial advice. Advisors who partner with Savvy tap into AI-powered software, automated sales and marketing, and seamless back office workflows to scale faster and spend more time with clients. We’ve raised over $105M to date from Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Mark Casady (former LPL Financial CEO), and other top-tier investors. Our team is made up of repeat founders and operators who’ve helped build Airbnb, Square, Brex, Carta, Facebook, $200B+ RIAs, and more. Savvy is at a pivotal point in its growth trajectory, having established strong product-market fit in providing a modern platform to financial advisors. We’ve surpassed $2.2 billion in AUM in less than three years, grown 600%+ in the last 18 months, and are entering the next phase of the company which involves rapid expansion of our product offering and continued revenue growth. Come help us scale! Responsibilities: - Own and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable confident, low-friction deployments that work consistently across services and environments - Build and maintain local and cloud development environments so engineers can spin up, test, and debug changes with minimal setup or surprises - Standardize alerting, metrics, and logging across systems to enable quick diagnosis and reduce firefighting time - Systematically identify and resolve developer experience pain points: slow tests, flaky builds, unclear failures, and missing documentation - Introduce strategic automation (e.g., test selection, release validation, infrastructure checks) where it clearly improves velocity or safety - Leverage AI to accelerate engineering workflows, from code review and test generation to infrastructure management - Partner with product engineering teams to drive adoption of platform improvements through trust and collaboration, not mandates Must have: - 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on infrastructure, platform, or developer experience work - Strong proficiency with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker), and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform) - Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred) - Solid understanding of observability and monitoring tools (Datadog preferred) for metrics, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing - Proficiency in scripting and automation (Ruby, Python, Bash, or Go) - Experience with web application backends (Ruby on Rails preferred) and frontend build tooling (pnpm, Turborepo, ESLint, Jest/Vitest, Playwright) - Systems thinking with pragmatism. You design reliable systems that scale for current and near-term needs without over-engineering - Strong communication skills with the ability to drive adoption through mentorship and partnership Nice to have: - Experience migrating workloads between cloud providers or PaaS platforms (e.g., Heroku to AWS) - Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration at scale - Fintech domain knowledge including financial services, regulatory compliance, or financial data integrations - Experience with macOS development toolchains and Apple Silicon environments - Track record of measurably improving developer productivity or deployment velocity BENEFITS: - Competitive salary and equity package - Unlimited PTO + paid company holidays - Access to holistic medical, dental, and vision plans - Company 401(k), Commuter, and HSA/FSA plans - NYC office in the heart of Manhattan - Lunch and snacks provided in the office - Access to virtual mental health care (Spring Health), vision related benefits (XP Health), and health concierge (Rightway) to help you find the right care - Access to counseling for stress management, dependent care, nutrition, fitness, legal, and financial issues (Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP)