Staff Backend Engineer

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October 1

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $208k - $228k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Wealthfront

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Finance • Fintech • SaaS

Wealthfront is a financial technology company specializing in automated investment services and financial planning tools. It offers a range of services including automated bond ladders, cash management with a competitive annual percentage yield, and comprehensive long-term investment strategies utilizing diversified index funds. Wealthfront's platform is recognized for its ease of use and efficient automation in managing savings, investments, and retirement funds. The company's offerings include FDIC-insured cash accounts, advisory services, tax-loss harvesting, and personalized investment portfolios. Wealthfront aims to help individuals grow their wealth through accessible, low-cost financial solutions tailored to individual risk preferences and financial goals.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2011

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

💰 $69.7M Convertible Note on 2022-09

📋 Description

• Work with a team of engineers to design and build new features or enhancements to 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. • Help improve the maintainability and stability of our codebase by working on fixing issues and adding necessary enhancements to our existing backend systems. • 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. • Proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems. • Participate in recruiting activities such as interviewing and attending career fairs. • Provide mentorship to other engineers on the team.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in developing backend components, services or APIs in Java or a similar language. • Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms. • Knowledge of SQL and experience working with online data stores (one of MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server). • You have passion for agile, test-driven development, continuous integration and automated testing. You also have a passion for working on platforms and backend systems that have measurable business impact and like working in a fast paced cross functional environment. • 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). • You have either a BS or MS in computer science or related field.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • vision • dental • 401K plan • generous time off • parental leave • wellness reimbursements • professional development • employee investing discount