# Software Engineer, AI & Automation at Nerdwallet

- Company: Nerdwallet
- What the company does: NerdWallet makes it easy to find the right financial product for you. Our Nerds do all the research so you don’t have to. Backed by IVP.
- Company website: https://www.nerdwallet.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: NerdWallet US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $127K to $207K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nerdwallet/32c62385-07d5-4d6d-960e-12c05ce0cbef
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nerdwallet-software-engineer-ai-and-automation/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering