Staff Backend Engineer, Farther
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Wealth management platform
Open for applications
Wealth management platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create comprehensive wealth management to ensure clients prosperity now, and far into the future.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of backend development experience, with deep expertise in distributed systems and serverless architectures
- Expert knowledge of Python or Scala and modern serverless frameworks
- Extensive experience with AWS serverless technologies (lambdas, SQS/SNS, S3, EventBridge, CloudWatch) and distributed data systems
- Strong background in financial systems architecture and serverless implementation
- Track record of making significant technical decisions that positively impact engineering organizations
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving technical best practices in cloud-native environments
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, particularly in technical documentation
- Proven ability to break down complex technical problems and guide solutions across multiple teams
- Deep understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure and serverless microservices architecture
- History of successful technical leadership without direct management responsibilities
Desirable
- Experience building trading systems or financial platforms on serverless architectures
- Background in high-availability serverless system design
- Expertise in event-driven architectures and AWS native services
- Experience with technical strategy and roadmap planning for cloud-native systems
- Knowledge of financial regulatory requirements and compliance in cloud environments
- Track record of solving complex distributed serverless systems challenges
What the job involves
- As a Staff Backend Engineer at Farther, you'll be a key technical leader within our engineering organization, architecting and driving the development of our core platform and infrastructure
- You'll shape the technical vision of our backend systems, establish engineering standards, and tackle our most complex distributed systems challenges
- Working on a fully serverless stack built on AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) with Python and Scala, you'll influence technical decisions that impact our entire financial platform
- This is a technical leadership role focused on engineering excellence, not people management
- Drive technical architecture decisions that shape the future of our serverless backend platform
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale distributed systems across multiple projects using AWS serverless technologies
- Establish backend engineering standards and best practices for serverless architectures that scale across the organization
- Tackle complex technical challenges in serverless system design, scalability, and reliability
- Guide and mentor senior engineers through complex technical decisions in serverless environments
- Drive technical excellence through code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical documentation
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to define technical strategy and roadmap for serverless infrastructure
- Design and implement critical financial systems architecture using AWS serverless services
- Champion engineering excellence in distributed serverless systems and backend development
- Lead technical discovery and implementation of major new platform capabilities on AWS
Our take
The Wealth Management market consists of two different segments, Financial Advisory and Digital Investment. Farther is looking to take clients' wealth “farther” by delivering both in its integrated service, alongside offering advisors the tools to earn and accelerate the growth of their books.
Through the platform, users can visualise and control every step of their financial transition, as well as access an advisor with the speciality that they need. Advisors in turn are able to use the same portal to streamline their service and reduce paperwork, so they can spend more time on customer interaction.
So far, Farther has shown impressive year-over-year growth and raised significant amounts of funding. The latest influx will be used to expand its advisor network and enhance its wealth management platform. The company has also announced its surpassed $5 billion in assets under management.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2024
$72m
SERIES C
Oct 2023
$31m
SERIES B
Total funding: $118m
Company benefits
- Opportunity to work with a talented team of professionals.
- Drive the success of a venture-backed, rapidly growing firm
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Taylor Matthews
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also co-founded Essmart. Prior to this, worked as Head of Account Management, Customer Success and Business Operations at ForUsAll.
Bradley Genser
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a US Army Officer and VP at Goldman Sachs.
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