Acorns

Acorns is the leading micro investing app in the U.S. Its easy-to-use, mobile-first technology makes it simple for anyone to set aside and invest life's spare money. Acorns allows customers to automatically invest in a low-cost, diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds offered by some of the world's top asset managers (including Vanguard and BlackRock). Customers grow their wealth in one of five portfolios constructed with help from world-renowned Nobel Laureate economist Dr. Harry Markowitz. Acorns smart portfolio algorithms automatically work in the background of life, helping users build wealth naturally, pennies at a time.

Acorns Grow Inc. (d/b/a/Acorns) is the parent of Acorns Securities LLC, a member of FINRA and SIPC, and Acorns Advisers LLC, an SEC registered investment adviser.

This is not an offer or a solicitation to buy or sell securities. Investing involves risk. Investments are not FDIC or NCUA insured. Brokerage services are provided to Acorns Advisers LLC by Acorns Securities LLC, member of FINRA/SIPC. This press release contains projections that are hypothetical in nature and "forward-looking statements" regarding matters that are not historical facts, including statements relating to Acorns' future goals and plans. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and projections.

Acorns Portland, OR, USA
Jun 01, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is seeking a backend software engineer who has a passion for building robust, scalable, software and systems for customer focused financial products. As a backend software engineer, your typical week will involve collaborating with product and other engineering teams such as mobile, frontend, and QA to plan and create new features and infrastructure to build reliable and cohesive financial products. You will work in Scala, Ruby, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, and more. You are not expected to have experience with all technologies listed above....
Acorns Portland, OR, USA
Jun 01, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is seeking a QA Engineer who has a passion for helping create reliable, bug free user experience and a background writing automated integration tests. As a QA Engineer, your typical week would involve collaborating with product and the other various engineering teams to plan the build out test suites for new features. You will participate in product feature and architecture design reviews to identify concerns and risks early in the product life cycle . You will build and maintain tools and frameworks to support ongoing automated testing...
Acorns Portland, OR, USA
Jun 01, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is seeking a Engineering Manager to lead the Acorns engineering team in Portland, OR. As an Engineering Manager at Acorns you know what it takes to build and scale extraordinary software, and have demonstrated that experience time and time again on all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Your experience in technology, including multiple software stacks, databases, and operational tools allows you to apply the right tool for the right job. You’re product and customer focused, and can easily communicate with all areas...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
Jun 01, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. The Compliance Associate reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer, will assist in providing oversight of the Broker-Dealer and Investment Adviser of our rapidly growing Fintech firm by ensuring operations and procedures comply with FINRA/SEC regulations. The Compliance Associate/Compliance Officer will effectively communicate his/her findings and recommendations to facilitate resolution to problems as they arise. Within 1 month, you will: Review advertising, marketing materials, client communications for compliance with regulatory rules...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
Jun 01, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is seeking an Operations Associate to own the implementation of our internal processes in coordination with our core partners.  You will act as the liaison between our internal operations teams and our external partners to test, develop, and iterate on our P&Ps and SOPs for day-to-day operations. You should have a passion working with all types of people, discipline and focus to process, and a “think outside of the box” attitude to scaling operations. Within 1 month, you will: Introduce yourself and become...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
Jun 01, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is seeking an Operations Acceptance Test Analyst to perform non-functional operator (OAT) test assurance for our new product releases. You will perform ongoing non-functional testing of business systems and integrations to ensure a successful product release. Within 1 month, you will: Introduce yourself and become integrated with the Acorns team. Interact with the project team to gain an understanding of the non-functional requirements and live infrastructure.   Gain a fundamental understanding of our process flows for money...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
Jun 01, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is seeking an experienced Sr. Product Manager to help guide new products from conception to launch. This candidate will support the development of new education (or “Grow”) products and features for multiple platforms tied to Acorns’ strategic vision. This role reports to the Chief Education Officer and is based in New York City. Within 1 month, you will: Learn our product and development process. Onboard to our product management and development tools. Introduce yourself to stakeholders and each functional group...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
Jun 01, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is looking for a passionate user researcher to carry out research to help continue our mission of making saving and investing accessible and understandable. This role will be critical to ensure that we keep the customer at the center and never stop growing and improving as we look for ways to constantly optimize our current product and new products and features. The Sr. Researcher will work under the direction and mentorship of the VP of Experience and will work closely with the Product, Design and Engineering teams. The researcher should...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
Jun 01, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience—one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with heart . Our heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Grow (grow.acorns.com) is looking for a versatile writer and producer with experience covering money topics—preferably in interesting, interactive and inventive ways. We’re a fast-growing site aimed at helping people build wealth—and build confidence managing every aspect of their financial lives. We’re dedicated to covering all things money and we’re published by the startup Acorns (though maintain editorial autonomy). You’ll work with our Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor to pitch and write about news...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
Jun 01, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is seeking an ambitious Finance & Strategy Analyst to enable, inform and improve strategic and financial decision-making across the company. This role will work directly with the VP of Finance and Senior Director of Corporate Strategy & Development as well as teams throughout the organization, including product, engineering, marketing and operations. Within 1 month, you will: Introduce yourself to the organization Develop a deep understanding of the product, business model, and competitive landscape Within 6 months,...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
May 31, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in in the revolution. Acorns is seeking a highly-motivated, detail-oriented, and driven Technical Operations Manager. This position will lead a new Technical Operations team, responsible for Level 2 troubleshooting, managing support for tools and vendors for our cloud operations as well as customer support teams.  This will be a highly visible role that will develop and optimize our incident response process and strategy. The Technical Operations Manager will be responsible for supervising a group of technicians who are responsible for System Operations.  This...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
May 31, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Job Description: Translate business requirements for enhancements to a complex financial platform into scalable solutions Job Requirements: 3+ years of Ruby on Rails experience Proficient Ruby coding skills Familiarity with PostgreSQL API design and implementation experience Object oriented fundamentals (OOA, OOP, OOD) Understanding of basic algorithms and data structures TDD and BDD experience (e.g. using frameworks such as RSpec/Capybara) Experience in building high-performance, reliable and scalable services...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
May 31, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is  seeking a talented iOS application engineer that is passionate about iOS and Objective-C and thrives on solving complex engineering problems with simple, elegant solutions. Acorns provides an outstanding opportunity to take an active role in shaping an award-winning product working with our talented team of engineers, designers and investment industry experts who are obsessed with introducing investing to millions of people around the world through our revolutionary new investment platform. Job Description: Produce complex...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
May 31, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is actively seeking a highly-motivated, detail-oriented, and driven Software Engineer. This position will reside in the Engineering group, which serves as the central development team for the company. The Data team is responsible for delivering a world class Analytics capabilities to serve millions of up-and-coming Acorns customers by streamlining and optimizing data processes on user behavior and complex financial data. In this role you will be a vital component to the success of our Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science teams. This is a...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
May 31, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is seeking a backend software engineer who has a passion for building robust, scalable, software and systems for customer focused financial products. Software engineers are responsible for translating high-level business requirements for new Acorns products and features into the services and data models that power them. They think critically about how to architect and build new components in a performant and scalable manner. As a backend software engineer, your typical week will involve collaborating with product and other engineering teams...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
May 31, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is seeking a Sr. Front-end Engineer who has a passion for user experience and a background building rich, scalable, javascript web applications. Job Description: End-to-end ownership of design and implementation of product features Improve front-end codebase by developing a modular, performant, and maintainable Javascript web application Elevate front-end architecture design to increase developer velocity and drive growth through Acorns’ web platform Provide insight into front-end web development best practices; Drive...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
May 31, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is seeking a QA Engineer who has a passion for helping create reliable, bug free user experience and a background writing automated integration tests. As a QA Engineer, your typical week would involve collaborating with product and the other various engineering teams to plan the build out test suites for new features. You will participate in product feature and architecture design reviews to identify concerns and risks early in the product life cycle . You will build and maintain tools and frameworks to support ongoing automated testing...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
May 31, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is actively seeking a highly-motivated, detail-oriented, and driven Software Engineer. This position will reside in the Engineering group, which serves as the central development team for the company. The Data team is responsible for delivering a world class Analytics capabilities to serve millions of up-and-coming Acorns customers by streamlining and optimizing data processes on user behavior and complex financial data. In this role you will be a vital component to the success of our Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science teams. This is a...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
May 31, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Acorns is seeking a talented Android Developer that is passionate about Android and Java and thrives on solving complex engineering problems with simple, elegant solutions. Acorns provides an outstanding opportunity to take an active role in shaping an award-winning product working with our talented team of engineers, designers and investment industry experts who are obsessed with introducing investing to millions of people around the world through our revolutionary new investment platform. Job Description: Design and build advanced...
Acorns Irvine, CA, USA
May 31, 2018
Full time
At Acorns, we're building a different kind of investing experience - one that looks after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming. The Acorns team is passionate about pursuing our mission and living our values. It all begins with Heart. Our Heart leads us in everything we do. It allows us to make bold decisions, build trust, grow and advance our society. Come find your place at Acorns and join us in the revolution. Join a team of passionate and award winning designers helping millions of people save and invest for their future! As a Sr. Product Designer, you’ll help lead every aspect of the product development process, from brainstorming the next great product innovation, to tweaking pixels, to optimizing a product after launch through user feedback and experiments. You will be expected to utilize your full range of product, interaction, and visual design skills. Candidates should be comfortable with taking ownership of their products and initiatives as well...