Wealthfront
Backend Engineer
Palo Alto, CA · Mid
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About the role
- We are looking for backend engineers to join our core product development teams.
- You'll help improve the maintainability and stability of our codebase by fixing issues and adding necessary enhancements to our existing backend systems.
- You'll ensure that mission critical backend systems and services operate smoothly in production by triaging and resolving operational issues as part of a team of on-call engineers.
Responsibilities
- You'll work with other engineers to design and build new features or enhance existing features.
- This work will add capabilities to the various backend systems and services that support Wealthfront's products, and will be done with automated instrumentation and monitoring to require minimal operational maintenance.
- We do this by leveraging technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products that help modern investors grow and manage their money.
- We convey funds to partner banks who accept and maintain deposits, provide the variable interest rate, and provide access to FDIC pass-through insurance.
- About Wealthfront Here at Wealthfront, our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions.
- If you're inspired to help us reshape the financial industry as we create our next chapter, let's talk!
Requirements
- You have 2-6 years of experience in developing backend components, services or APIs in Java or a similar language.
- You have passion for agile, test-driven development, continuous integration and automated testing.
- You have either a BS or MS in computer science or related field.
Nice to have
- You have knowledge of SQL and experience working with online data stores (ideally something like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server but NoSQL is okay).
- While not required, experience working with Spark pipelines is a plus along with knowledge of an ORM technology such as Hibernate.
- Another plus is working with a dependency injection framework (one of Guice, Spring, Pico, Dagger).
- We started with the ambition to transform the investment advisory business.
- By automating strategies typically reserved for the wealthy, we unlocked access to high quality investment advice for a digitally-native generation that was underserved by traditional institutions.
Compensation
- $150,000 - $189,000 plus generous equity and a discretionary bonus.
Benefits
- A zero-commission Stock Investing Account with 50+ handpicked collections that help DIY investors discover new companies and make smarter investing decisions.
- Estimated annual salary range: $150,000 - $189,000 plus generous equity and a discretionary bonus.
- Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K matching, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- Tax-Loss Harvesting benefits vary depending on the client's entire tax and investment profile.
Company info
- Wealthfront software automates the financial services we provide to our clients, and within these services we automate the collection of data that we learn from on our way to making our services even better.
- Wealthfront engineers function as builder/operators, with dual responsibility for building the system and operating it in production. Any toil that this brings about is automated away by engineers. This investment in automation is expected, and the prioritization of it is always built into our planning and execution.
- Wealthfront engineers automate our development processes. For example, Wealthfront engineers automate all of our testing. Manual testing is not part of the software development lifecycle at Wealthfront.
- Wealthfront engineers automate observability in case of failure. If something is up, our systems inform engineers appropriately. If our systems are quiet, they are healthy. If you are drawn to being an engineer within such an environment, and having outsized impact as an engineer at a magnitude that is only available within a company achieving greatness at our size (~350 employees, half in engineering), then we want to hear from you!
- For more information please visit www.wealthfront.com.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
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