{"id":427693,"url":"https://alion.io/job/betterment-sr-staff-engineer","title":"Sr. Staff Engineer","company":{"id":58463,"name":"Betterment","domain":"betterment.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/betterment","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":230000,"max":270000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":270000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"Prompt Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Ruby","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-04-24T19:08:48Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T17:29:10Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-10-28T17:29:10Z","days_open":186,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":[],"days_open":186},"description":"About the role\nThe AI Platform team enables product teams across Betterment to build useful AI-powered features quickly, enjoyably, and responsibly. As Sr Staff Engineer, you will work with a team of senior/staff engineers delivering an expanding set of AI capabilities as well as shared infrastructure, LLM evaluation frameworks, and internal libraries.\nYou will help shape and lead the technical direction of our AI product development strategy, working closely with engineering leadership. You will collaborate with product and compliance partners to ensure Betterment's AI capabilities are developed with the rigor that our customers and regulators expect.\nBy joining us in the early days of our AI product efforts, you will have significant influence over how the organization delivers exciting features into the Betterment product across all lines of business.\nThis role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees. \nNew York City: $230,000 - $270,000\nWe offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits FSA/HSA, and 401(k) with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy. This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Tuesday through Thursday, weekly.\nA day in the life\nWork with a team of senior/staff engineers building the foundation that enables all Betterment teams to deploy AI features.\nDefine and drive Betterment's AI platform strategy - the shared infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, internal libraries, and guardrails that allow product teams to build AI features with confidence and speed.\nLead high-leverage projects that expand our organization’s AI technical capabilities, where AI organically enhances existing product value.\nPartner with product teams to ship customer-facing AI functionality to production. Develop broad Betterment domain expertise in the process.\nPartner with legal and compliance leaders to scale processes that enable teams to build AI functionality quickly and responsibly within a regulated financial services environment.\nMentor and grow senior engineers, sharing your experience to expand their impact and accelerate their growth.\nWhat we’re looking for\nA strong technical lead capable of establishing the strategic vision for Betterment’s AI systems while also working hands-on alongside senior and staff IC colleagues to build it into reality.\nDeep expertise in LLM systems, including prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and evaluation systems. \nExperience operating AI features in production, ensuring quality and auditability via online and offline validation, automated monitoring, and human-in--the-loop oversight.\nComfort operating at the frontier. The ability and drive to stay current with emerging tools, techniques, and best practices within the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.\nClear judgment about when to use AI and when not to, maintaining a grounded, pragmatic perspective on what we should ship to production today.\nProven track record leading successful projects that affect and development workflows used by multiple teams.\nFullstack development experience including React, GraphQL, and one or more server-side languages (Ruby, Java, TypeScript, C#, Python, etc.)\nExperience making sound build vs buy decisions.\nAbility to build trust and processes that transcend discipline and team boundaries.\nPrincipled approach to balancing the need to move quickly today with the need to move quickly tomorrow, with an appreciation of how to meet high standards for customer quality and regulatory requirements.\n\nJoin a team built on these core values\nWe change lives\nBe a part of a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact, always laddering up to our mission; to empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease.\nWe set audacious goals\nWe set them for the company, our customers, and ourselves, and we won’t stop until we reach them. We don’t just show up; we give our all, then celebrate our wins.\nWe value all perspectives\nWhen we collaborate, we're at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.\nWe simplify financial services\nWe’re financial services pioneers, always finding new ways to improve, optimize, and enhance. Constant improvement is in our DNA.\n Our Commitment to Your Total Well-being:\n We offer a competitive suite of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability; infertility support and WPATH-aligned transgender health benefits; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); transit benefits and FSA and HSA options\nOwnership: Equity for all employees, including new hire and refresher grants.\nTime: Flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, and a fully paid four-week sabbatical in your sixth year.\nGrowth: Company-paid professional coaching for all employees.\n Wealth: Day-one 401(k) match plus matching on qualified student loan payments.\nWhat happens next\nWe’ll take a few weeks to review all applications. If we’d like to spend more time with you, we’ll reach out to arrange next steps, which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.\nIn the interview process, we’ll look to learn more about your skills, experiences, capabilities, and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments, as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions.\nOn average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process. \nWe recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career, and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!\nBetterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process, please reach out to your recruiter. \nPlease note that in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.\nCome join us! \nWe’re an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. 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