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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Community Building

Acorns · Remote · Remote

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About Acorns

Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps individuals and families save, invest, and grow money automatically through simple, everyday habits.

About the role

Acorns, the financial wellness app, is building a new Community product team from scratch. This is a small, senior group with a single mandate: Get people addicted to saving by unlocking network effects inside Acorns. This team understands how to create engagement loops, virality, and habit formation. We want people who’ve mastered those mechanics and are ready to use them for something that improves people’s lives.

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Acorns, the financial wellness app, is building a new Community product team from scratch. This is a small, senior group with a single mandate: Get people addicted to saving by unlocking network effects inside Acorns. This team understands how to create engagement loops, virality, and habit formation. We want people who’ve mastered those mechanics and are ready to use them for something that improves people’s lives.

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer on this team, you’ll build the systems and features that power Acorns’ organic growth engine. Social graphs, engagement loops, referral mechanics, real-time interactions, sharing flows, the infrastructure that makes a product spread. You’ll own your features end-to-end: API design, server logic, implementation, instrumentation, and iteration. You’ll work directly with the CEO, a Senior Product Manager and a Senior Product Designer.

This is end-to-end ownership from early concept through shipped product on features where what you build will reach millions of people who are often investing for the first time.

Build the mechanics that make a product spread including referral systems, social sharing flows, engagement loops, and real-time...

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