Wealthfront
iOS Engineer
Palo Alto, CA · Mid
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The bottom of this range ($150,000) is below the Level I prevailing wage of $152,797. An H-1B cannot be filed below the prevailing wage, so an offer at the floor of this band could not be sponsored as posted.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,075 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Take ownership of large, complex projects from ideation through execution and delivery.
- Get an opportunity to work with leadership to define the team's priorities and initiatives
- Work independently, use available resources to get unblocked, and complete tasks on schedule by exercising strong judgment and problem-solving skills
Responsibilities
- Wealthfront engineers function as builder/operators, with dual responsibility for building the system and operating it in production.
- Build a premier native iOS application
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering leadership to shape the roadmap and deliver a seamless and delightful user experience.
- Work with frontend and backend engineers to design, build and test reusable REST APIs
- Design and build high-quality infrastructure; making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability
- About Wealthfront Here at Wealthfront, our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions.
- 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.
- If you're inspired to help us reshape the financial industry as we create our next chapter, let's talk!
- We convey funds to partner banks who accept and maintain deposits, provide the variable interest rate, and provide access to FDIC pass-through insurance.
Requirements
- Deep expertise with Swift and iOS frameworks - knowledge of Objective-C is a plus but not required
Compensation
- $150,000 - $189,000 plus equity and a discretionary bonus.
- Support your professional development by providing feedback during weekly 1:1s and our semi-annual reviews
Benefits
- A zero-commission Stock Investing Account with 50+ handpicked collections that help DIY investors discover new companies and make smarter investing decisions.
Company info
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to peers
- Ensure our iOS app and iOS CI systems operate smoothly in production by triaging and resolving operational issues as part of a team of on-call engineers
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- For more information please visit www.wealthfront.com.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
This listing is sourced directly from Wealthfront's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.