Senior Software Engineer, Wealthfront
DevOps Platform
$172-228k
Plus equity and a discretionary bonus
Automated investment management
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Automated investment management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$172-228k
Plus equity and a discretionary bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a financial system that favors people, not institutions.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience with running and troubleshooting modern Linux systems and services in production
- 6+ years of experience developing reliable production-grade software in Java, Go, or other similar languages
- Proficiency with at least one automation technology such as Terraform, Chef, or Puppet
- Successfully designed and deployed mission-critical complex distributed systems
- Excellent critical thinking and communications skills with a desire to both learn from and educate your peers
- A BS or MS in Computer Science or an Engineering field, or equivalent professional experience
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Devops team, where you will blend system administration and software engineering skills to build and maintain software that manages the infrastructure and services running in our data centers, which ultimately power all of our products
- We're a modern infrastructure engineering team, believing strongly in automation and standardization through software
- We operate in both physical data centers and cloud environments, and leverage open source technologies such as containers, MariaDB, NGINX, Jenkins, Chef, Kibana, and Grafana to deliver automated infrastructure to our clients and every member of the Engineering team
- Maintain our core infrastructure by writing software to automate application deployment, configure our infrastructure, and manage critical services such as our databases
- Ensure that mission critical services operate reliably by triaging and fixing operational issues as an on-call engineer, participating in post-mortems, and implementing improvements to prevent future issues
- Design, implement, and deploy internal tools and services to accelerate productivity of the wider Engineering team and enable direct ownership of operations
- Help manage our server hardware in our physical data centers which may occasionally include travel to our Bay Area or New Jersey data centers for onsite projects
- Be involved in key decisions regarding the evolution of our infrastructure
- Mentor junior members of the team
- Once you join, Wealthfront will:
- Pair you with a 1:1 mentor to guide you through our onboarding program
- Encourage you to lead impactful projects which match your professional goals
- Support your professional development by providing feedback during weekly 1:1s and during our bi-annual reviews
- Give you autonomy so you can be a happy and successful member of our 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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
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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