Backend Engineer, Wealthfront

$140-185k

Plus equity & discretionary bonus

SQL

Java

Postgres

Dagger

MySQL

Spark

Spring

Oracle

Guice

Hibernate

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Palo Alto, CA

Automated investment management

Open for applications

Automated investment management

201-500 employees

FintechB2CB2BBankingPersonal financeInvestingFinancial ServicesSaaSMobile

Open for applications

$140-185k

Plus equity & discretionary bonus

SQL

Java

Postgres

Dagger

MySQL

Spark

Spring

Oracle

Guice

Hibernate

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Palo Alto, CA

201-500 employees

FintechB2CB2BBankingPersonal financeInvestingFinancial ServicesSaaSMobile

Company mission

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

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You have 2-6 years of experience in developing backend components, services or APIs in Java or a similar language. You demonstrate knowledge and understanding of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms
You have knowledge of SQL and experience working with online data stores (ideally something like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server but NoSQL is okay)
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

We are looking for backend engineers to join our core product development teams
You’ll work with other engineers to design and build new features or enhance 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
You’ll help improve the maintainability and stability of our codebase by fixing issues and adding necessary enhancements to our existing backend systems
You’ll 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
You’ll proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems
Additionally, you might play a part in evolving the engineering organization by participating in recruiting activities such as interviewing and attending career fairs and providing mentorship to other engineers on the team
Once you join, Wealthfront will:
Pair you with a mentor who will guide you through our structured onboarding program
Encourage you to work on projects that match your professional goals
Support your professional development by providing feedback during weekly 1:1s and our semi-annual reviews
Provide 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.

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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