Staff Backend Engineer, Wealthfront

$208-228k

+ Equity + Discretionary Bonus

SQL

Java

Postgres

Dagger

MySQL

Spark

Spring

Oracle

Guice

Hibernate

Senior and Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

Automated investment management

Be an early applicant

Automated investment management

201-500 employees

FintechB2CB2BBankingPersonal financeInvestingFinancial ServicesSaaSMobile

Be an early applicant

$208-228k

+ Equity + Discretionary Bonus

SQL

Java

Postgres

Dagger

MySQL

Spark

Spring

Oracle

Guice

Hibernate

Senior and Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

201-500 employees

FintechB2CB2BBankingPersonal financeInvestingFinancial ServicesSaaSMobile

Company mission

To build a financial system that favors people, not institutions.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

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

What the job involves

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

Our take

Wealthfront's platform takes the hassle and stress out of investing, financial planning, borrowing, and saving with automated services and financial advice. Its robo-advisor allows customers to set a financial limit on their accounts, anything above the limit is moved into an investment account or another account chosen by the customer.

Indeed, it has some similarities to round-up apps like Acorn, which round up purchases and put the spare change into savings. There are other companies working on robo-advisors too, such as Morgan Stanley and Betterment.

Nonetheless, with an impressive and steadily increasing list of clients, with more than $50B of assets under its management, Wealthfront achieved Unicorn status in September 2022. Wealthfront is diversifying its offerings, branching into high-interest checking accounts and investment advice.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-4% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Trustpilot (2.1)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jan 2018

$75m

SERIES E

Oct 2014

$64m

SERIES D

Total funding: $204.5m

Company benefits

401(k)
Medical/Vision/Dental insurance
HSA contributions for high deductible plans
Discretionary time off policy
16 weeks of paid parental leave (both parents)
Flexible working hours
Monthly wellness reimbursement

Company HQ

University South, Palo Alto, CA

Leadership

Dan Carroll

(CSO)

They studied Finance and Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona before using this expertise to co-found Wealthfront in December 2008.

Andy Rachleff

(Executive Chairman)

Prior to Wealthfront, they co-founded and was General Partner of Benchmark Capital, where they were responsible for investing in a number of successful companies including Equinix, Juniper Networks, and Opsware.

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