Engineering Manager, Altruist
Market Data
$200-249k
+ Equity packages
All-in-one platform for financial advisors and their clients
Be an early applicant
All-in-one platform for financial advisors and their clients
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-249k
+ Equity packages
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make financial advice better, more affordable, and more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- 3 years of experience working as aa engineering leader; at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a strong focus on distributed systems and real-time data processing
- Strong programming skills in Java or Python, with experience in optimizing performance and scalability
- Expertise in real-time market data processing, order book management, and historical data
- Experience with cloud-based architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (i.e.,Java or Python, Kafka, Redis, SQL, NoSQL, cloud-based architecture, docker/kubernetes )
- Education - Ideally looking for a B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science is preferred
- Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable
- Superb communication - Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others
- Resilience - We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along the way
- Assurance - Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego-less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives
- Creative problem solving - Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You’re instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks
Desirable
- A strong understanding of financial markets, trading workflows, and FIX protocols
What the job involves
- Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we’re excited to hire a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our Market Data team, which is responsible for building and maintaining low-latency, high-throughput market data systems
- This team ensures that Altruist delivers real-time and security master market data to support trading, analytics, and reporting
- As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow a team of skilled backend engineers while remaining technically involved in system architecture, design, and development
- You will collaborate closely with Product, Trading, and Infrastructure teams to ensure our market data platform is resilient, scalable, and accurate
- Lead & Manage: Oversee and mentor a team of backend engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Hands-on Development: Contribute to system design and coding, ensuring best practices in software engineering and high-quality delivery
- Build & Optimize Market Data Systems: Design and enhance low-latency market data pipelines, tick data, and real-time streaming APIs
- Ensure Reliability & Performance: Drive improvements in monitoring, alerting, and failover mechanisms for market data services
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with Trading, Product, and Infrastructure teams to integrate and optimize market data usage
- Hire & Retain Talent: Recruit top engineering talent and create an environment where engineers can do their best work
Our take
Altruist has created a cloud-based digital investing platform for independent financial advisors (IFAs). In the past, it’s been common for financial advisors selling products on a commission basis to have access to advanced digital systems, but not those working entirely independently.
Altruist brings an all-in-one platform to all IFAs, removing the need to use multiple programs to manage client accounts whilst bringing high quality assets to all investors, regardless of portfolio size.
Advisors can save time, compress costs and ultimately do more for their clients. Altruist operates a pricing model that scales up with the number of required accounts, unlike some competitor products such as Adviser and Intelliflo which charge a flat monthly subscription fee. Off the back of impressive funding, the company is set to expand its service offerings and support a wider range of RIAs as it becomes a truly comprehensive advising solution.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
67% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2024
$169m
SERIES E
Apr 2023
$112m
SERIES D
Total funding: $449.5m
Company benefits
- Be rewarded for doing great work: competitive compensation and equity for all team members
- Health, dental, and vision coverage, available on your first day
- Set future you up for success with 4% 401(k) matching
- Flexible time off and work hours to meet your needs
- Modern parental paid leave from day one, including 16-week adoptive, birth or foster paid leave, and 4-week child loss or miscarriage paid leave
Company values
- First and foremost we believe in treating everyone with kindness, respect, and equality
- Brilliance at Altruist means constantly striving to better your craft with a growth mindset, always learning
- Lastly, we have grit—a bias toward action and an insatiable appetite for getting things done to bring us closer to delivering on our mission
Company HQ
McManus, Culver City, CA
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Leadership
Jason Wenk
(CEO)Started their career as a Morgan Stanley System Analyst before co-founding Retirement Wealth as CEO in 2005. They also founded FormulaFolios in September 2011, before combining this financial and entrepreneurial experience to found Altruist in September 2018.
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