Backend Software Engineer, Arta Finance
Trading & Data Platform
$110-300k
+ Equity
Consumer finance & wealth management platform
Be an early applicant
Consumer finance & wealth management platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$110-300k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help people enjoy more successful financial lives, to build the future they want.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for a backend engineer who thrives in high-stakes, data-intensive environments and enjoys solving complex distributed systems problems — from market data ingestion, to transaction workflows, to revenue and billing accuracy (where “close enough” is not a thing)
- 4+ years of professional experience in backend software engineering, ideally in fintech, trading, or other high-reliability domains
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Proven experience working with data-intensive systems, both batch and real-time
- Hands-on experience building and scaling data pipelines and streaming systems (Kafka, Spark, Airflow, or equivalents)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, time-series databases, or similar storage systems
- Familiarity with market data feeds, order management systems, or electronic trading platforms is a plus
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced startup environment with high ownership and ambiguity
- Bonus: Familiarity with quantitative finance, portfolio optimization, or risk modeling
- Bonus: Exposure to ML-driven systems for trading or investment management
- Bonus: Experience with GraphQL, gRPC, or WebSockets for low-latency interfaces
- LOCATION: You are either based in the Bay area, or have plans to relocate to the Bay area
What the job involves
- We’re building the backend systems that power Arta’s trading platform, billing infrastructure, and real-time financial data pipelines
- You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, ML researchers, and investment professionals — but your core focus will be designing and scaling the services, pipelines, and APIs behind these mission-critical systems
- Design and implement scalable, secure, high-performance backend services supporting our trading and analytics platform
- Own and evolve our market data ingestion and processing pipelines, integrating data from exchanges, providers, and internal systems
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services used by internal and external consumers
- Contribute to architecture decisions involving microservices, event-driven systems, and real-time streaming
- Ensure system reliability through strong practices in observability, fault tolerance, monitoring, and incident response
- Work closely with frontend, data science, and product teams to deliver seamless user experiences backed by robust backend infrastructure
- Stay current on market data standards, trading protocols, and relevant regulatory considerations (MiFID II, FINRA, etc.)
- This role reports to the Engineering Manager based in the Bay area
Application process
- Introductory call with Head of Talent, 20-30m
- Hiring Manager Interview, 30m
- Technical Interview 1: Coding/Algorithm/Data Structure, 60m
- Live assessment on CoderPad with leet code style questions
- This round should be conducted without the usage of AI tools
- Technical Interview 2: System Design with CTO, 60m
- Technical Interview 3: Coding & Culture assessment, 60m
- Culture Interview, 30m
- Note: We require at least one in-person interview before making our offer decision. For remotely located candidates, we may request you to visit the Mountain View HQ to meet the team. Depending on your location, you will meet our team member based in NY/New Jersey
Our take
The “family office” is a financial management team that takes care of investments, family finances and growing wealth. Traditionally, this has been off-limits to everyone except the super-rich. However, Arta Finance believes that it can leverage big data, AI, and fintech to bring these kinds of services to the masses.
Though there is no shortage of financial management and investment platforms out there, Arta is offering something a little different with its AI-managed portfolios. These stand out because of the use of user data and input to personalize the choices of stock purchases and other decisions.
Arta emerged from stealth in the fall of 2022 with a substantial funding round, and has since pursued speedy growth. In 2023 its digital family office platform opened to all qualified investors in the US. At the same time, it announced the significant achievement that members have trusted the platform to manage more than $100 million on their behalf.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2022
$90m
SERIES A
Total funding: $90m
Company benefits
- We have a robust health insurance offering for you and your family
- High deductible health plan available with health savings account contribution
- Complimentary One Medical membership for individuals and dependents
- 20 weeks of parental leave
- 15 days PTO annually plus national and company holidays
- Remote-work friendly
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Caesar Sengupta
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously spent 14 years at Google including roles as VY & GM of Payments and Next Billion Users, and VP & Product Lead of Chrome OS.
Charles Dong
(Co-Founder & Product)Spent five years at Google as PM Lead & Head of Growth for Tez and GPay, following a two year spell as Product Manager at Box.
David Shapiro
(Co-Founder)Spent 15 years as Vice President at American Express before joining Google for 12 years, serving as Chief Business Officer of the Next Billion Users initiative, and Global Director of Chrome OS and Android Marketing.
Edward Chiang
(Co-Founder & Product)Spent 12 years as a Director of Product Management at Google in California then Singapore.
Felix Lin
(Co-Founder)Former CEO of PickPackGo and Qurb, Inc. Spent 12 years at Google as VP of Payment Ecosystems and VP, Product Management for Chrome OS.
Mark Striebeck
(Co-Founder & Engineering)Spent 16 years as an Engineering Director at Google.
Zelidrag Hornung
(Co-Founder & Engineering)Former Software Design Engineer Lead at Microsoft, later spending 13 years at Google as a Senior Director of Engineering.
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