Staff Back End Engineer, Altruist
Clearing
$203-249k
+ Stock Options (ISO's)
3+ days a week in office
All-in-one platform for financial advisors and their clients
Job no longer available
All-in-one platform for financial advisors and their clients
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$203-249k
+ Stock Options (ISO's)
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make financial advice better, more affordable, and more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Experience - 6+ years experience building scalable RESTful back-end services in a highly distributed & resilient architecture (Java experience heavily preferred)
- 1+ years experience developing scalable back-office money movement systems (ACH, clearing, settlements)
- Strong grasp over database technologies using SQL and NoSQL databases like Postgres, MySQL, HBase/Cassandra, Redis
- Education - Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, other relevant Engineering degrees or equivalent professional experience
- Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes, Python, Airflow)
- Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable
- Superb communication - Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others
- Resilience - We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along the way
- Assurance - Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego-less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives
- Creative problem solving - Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You’re instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks
Desirable
- Strong domain knowledge of Clearing or Brokerage platforms and financial services
What the job involves
- Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we’re excited to hire a Staff Back End Engineer to join our growing Clearing team
- The Clearing team's mission is to streamline operations and empower a better wealth management experience with robust, scalable, and secure solutions
- As a Staff Back End Engineer, you will work closely with engineering leaders, product, and other cross-functional teams to prioritize and deliver product requirements
- Work closely with the Engineering Manager, leads, engineers, product and business teams
- Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows
- Focus on building and scaling systems
- Deliver RESTful APIs with microservices
- Integrate data from multiple custodians, aggregating, modeling, and loading the data into a transactional and warehouse system
- Solve complex problems within an event-based environment
- Work on complex calculations in a consistent and accurate manner
Our take
Altruist has created a cloud-based digital investing platform for independent financial advisors (IFAs). In the past, it’s been common for financial advisors selling products on a commission basis to have access to advanced digital systems, but not those working entirely independently.
Altruist brings an all-in-one platform to all IFAs, removing the need to use multiple programs to manage client accounts whilst bringing high quality assets to all investors, regardless of portfolio size.
Advisors can save time, compress costs and ultimately do more for their clients. Altruist operates a pricing model that scales up with the number of required accounts, unlike some competitor products such as Adviser and Intelliflo which charge a flat monthly subscription fee. Off the back of impressive funding, the company is set to expand its service offerings and support a wider range of RIAs as it becomes a truly comprehensive advising solution.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2024
$169m
SERIES E
Apr 2023
$112m
SERIES D
Total funding: $449.5m
Company benefits
- Be rewarded for doing great work: competitive compensation and equity for all team members
- Health, dental, and vision coverage, available on your first day
- Set future you up for success with 4% 401(k) matching
- Flexible time off and work hours to meet your needs
- Modern parental paid leave from day one, including 16-week adoptive, birth or foster paid leave, and 4-week child loss or miscarriage paid leave
Company values
- First and foremost we believe in treating everyone with kindness, respect, and equality
- Brilliance at Altruist means constantly striving to better your craft with a growth mindset, always learning
- Lastly, we have grit—a bias toward action and an insatiable appetite for getting things done to bring us closer to delivering on our mission
Company HQ
McManus, Culver City, CA
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Leadership
Jason Wenk
(CEO)Started their career as a Morgan Stanley System Analyst before co-founding Retirement Wealth as CEO in 2005. They also founded FormulaFolios in September 2011, before combining this financial and entrepreneurial experience to found Altruist in September 2018.
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