Staff Fullstack Engineer, Altruist
Experience
+ Equity in the form of Stock Options (ISOs)
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
+ Equity in the form of Stock Options (ISOs)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make financial advice better, more affordable, and more accessible to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- If you're passionate about your craft and are looking for big, meaningful problems to solve, then you'll love what we're doing
- 8+ years of front-end development experience with React or equivalent
- 4+ years of back-end development experience with Node.js or equivalent
- Fluency in writing technical documentation and in seeking feedback and alignment
- Experience building front-end features in a modular and scalable fashion
- Experience with GraphQL and Git
- Experience building, testing, and deploying React applications to production
- Experience using application monitoring tools like New Relic/Data Dog to keep error rates low and ensure high uptime for all of our systems
- Strong understanding of responsive design principles and experience implementing them
- Experience maintaining code quality by measuring unit/integration tests, as well as other critical code quality metrics
- Experience in the CI/CD world and the ability to use it without causing a negative impact on our business or end user's experience
What the job involves
- The Experience team is a newly-formed group of engineers, designers, QA, and Product with two responsibilities
- First, it ensures the highest quality user experience for advisors' clients on the Altruist platform, managing both the client mobile and web app code bases
- Second, it spearheads product initiatives that impact all facets of the advisor platform
- Its areas of ownership include the design system, enhancing developer productivity, and implementing horizontal features like search
- The team operates with well-defined goals, KPIs, and strong support from the entire company
- Work with Product, and Design to refine requirements and turn them into high-quality product launches
- Work with Product and your manager to create half-year project roadmaps
- Lead the definition, development, and adoption of web platform initiatives in alignment with team KPIs
- Work on both the front-end and the presentation layer of the back-end
- Coach and mentor junior developers and take responsibility for meeting deadlines for your team’s deliverables
- Lead with engineering best practices and make decisions based on definable metrics
- Promote a culture of quality, accountability, autonomy, and open communication across teams
Our take
The world of wealth management is changing fast, and financial advisors are feeling the strain. Between managing client expectations, navigating complex regulations, and keeping up with endless admin tasks, there's little time left for what really matters, helping clients make smarter financial decisions. And that's where Altruist comes in, set out to modernize custodial services, making it easier and more efficient for advisors to manage portfolios, handle compliance, and deliver great client experiences without getting buried in paperwork or outdated systems.
Its a technology-driven custodian built specifically for financial advisors and it combines powerful digital tools with custody services to simplify how advisors run their businesses. The company recently launched HAzel, and AI-powered assistant designed to take on the day-to-day tasks that slow advisors down (think note-taking, email drafting, and meeting summarising). Hazel even pulls insights from firm data, emails, and documents to give personalized, context-aware answers to questions. And by integrating tools like Salesforce and Redtail., Hazel acts like a smart teammate that helps advisors stay organized and focused on clients.
Like many fast-growing tech firms, Altruist has had to make some tough decisions along the way. The company recently laid off around 15% of its workforce as part of a plan to sharpen its focus on the most impactful parts of its business. Deepsite that, CEO Jason Wenk says Altruist is having a record with assets up 50%, revenue per employee climbing 70%, and a clear path to profitability. With this strong growth, zero debt, and the rollout of Hazel, Altruist is proving it can innovate and scale sustainably.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
67% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$152m
SERIES F
May 2024
$169m
SERIES E
Total funding: $601.5m
Company benefits
- Grow your career: Altruist is a thoughtful, fast-growing company that values high achievers.
- Our success is your success: Be rewarded for doing great work - competitive compensation and equity for all team members.
- Take care of yourself: Health, dental, and vision coverage, available on your first day.
- Work-life integration: We work hard and respect everyone’s whole selves.
- You're welcome here: Altruist is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to inclusivity.
Company HQ
McManus, Culver City, CA
Leadership
Jason Wenk
(Founder & CEO)Began 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.
Mazi Bahadori
(COO/CCO)Mazi joined Altruist in 2019 as CCO and VP of Securities, adding COO to his title in 2023. Prior to this, he served as the CCO and Director of Operations at Aspiration and as the VP and Legal & Compliance Specialist at PIMCO.
Harpreet Ahluwalia
(CPO)Harpreet joined Altruist in 2019 as VP of Product Management, becoming CPO in 2022. Prior to this, he was a VP of Product Management at ServiceTitan for 4 years and Head of Product at Citysearch for 3 years.
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