Backend Software Engineer, Arta Finance
$110-300k
Consumer finance & wealth management platform
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Consumer finance & wealth management platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$110-300k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help people enjoy more successful financial lives, to build the future they want.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of backend software engineering experience in high-stakes environments
- Strong experience in Python, Go, or Java (we’re flexible, but bonus points for Python/Go)
- Proven track record working with data-intensive systems (batch + real-time), especially in the fintech, trading, or market data space
- Experience building and scaling data pipelines (e.g., using Kafka, Spark, Airflow, or equivalent tools)
- Familiarity with market data feeds, order management systems, or electronic trading platforms
- Strong grasp of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), and containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, time-series databases, or similar
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment—roll-up-your-sleeves energy is a must
- Based in the Bay area, or you have plans to relocate
- Familiarity with quantitative finance, portfolio optimization, or risk modeling is a plus
- Exposure to ML-driven systems for trading or investment management is a plus
- Experience with GraphQL, gRPC, or WebSockets for low-latency interfaces is a plus
What the job involves
- The Infrastructure team at Arta is building the backbone of our mission—powering everything from ingesting data and making it accessible to our UI, research, and trading services, to managing users’ money and integrating with external fintech platforms
- At Arta, everything revolves around data: from training and deploying ML models, to managing wealth, to delivering intuitive, high-performance user interfaces
- We build for scale, speed, and transparency—and we’re looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of performance engineering and fintech innovation
- This means not just ingesting and storing data efficiently, but also making it reliably available to a wide range of services, each with its own performance and access requirements
- In this role, you’ll be responsible for building a core internal service that unifies diverse data sources—market data, economic indicators, and more—into a consistent, accessible model across our systems
- You’ll work with a team of product managers, designers, ML researchers, and investment professionals to ideate, prioritize, define, prototype, develop, test, and iterate on the software that will fundamentally change our users’ relationships with their money
- We're looking for engineers who are versatile and enthusiastic about taking on new problems as our fast-paced business rapidly evolves
- Designing and coding full stack, backend, or frontend features
- Collaborate in the whole life cycle of the software development – from collecting requirements and iterating on design to implementation and testing
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems to power our trading platform and data analytics infrastructure
- Own and evolve our data ingestion and processing pipelines from financial data providers, exchanges, and internal systems
- Collaborate with frontend, data science, and product teams to deliver seamless user experiences backed by real-time and historical data
- Build RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services for use by internal and external consumers
- Ensure system reliability, observability, and fault tolerance across distributed components
- Contribute to architectural decisions, especially those involving microservices, event-driven systems, and data streaming
- Partner closely with product managers, user experience designers, and other cross-functional teams
- Stay current on market data standards, trading protocols, and regulatory considerations (MiFID II, FINRA, etc.)
- This role reports to Chirag Yagnik, Head of Research & CIO / co-founder
Application process
- Screen call with Head of Talent, 20-30m
- Technical Interview 1: Coding/Algorithm/Data Structure, 60m
- Technical Interview 2: System Design, 60m
- Technical Interview 3: Domain Knowledge (TBD) & Culture, 60m
- Culture Interview with CEO, Caesar Sengupta
Our take
The “family office” is a financial management team that takes care of investments, family finances and growing wealth. Traditionally, this has been off-limits to everyone except the super-rich. However, Arta Finance believes that it can leverage big data, AI, and fintech to bring these kinds of services to the masses.
Though there is no shortage of financial management and investment platforms out there, Arta is offering something a little different with its AI-managed portfolios. These stand out because of the use of user data and input to personalize the choices of stock purchases and other decisions.
Arta emerged from stealth in the fall of 2022 with a substantial funding round, and has since pursued speedy growth. In 2023 its digital family office platform opened to all qualified investors in the US. At the same time, it announced the significant achievement that members have trusted the platform to manage more than $100 million on their behalf.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2022
$90m
SERIES A
Total funding: $90m
Company benefits
- We have a robust health insurance offering for you and your family
- High deductible health plan available with health savings account contribution
- Complimentary One Medical membership for individuals and dependents
- 20 weeks of parental leave
- 15 days PTO annually plus national and company holidays
- Remote-work friendly
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Caesar Sengupta
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously spent 14 years at Google including roles as VY & GM of Payments and Next Billion Users, and VP & Product Lead of Chrome OS.
Charles Dong
(Co-Founder & Product)Spent five years at Google as PM Lead & Head of Growth for Tez and GPay, following a two year spell as Product Manager at Box.
David Shapiro
(Co-Founder)Spent 15 years as Vice President at American Express before joining Google for 12 years, serving as Chief Business Officer of the Next Billion Users initiative, and Global Director of Chrome OS and Android Marketing.
Edward Chiang
(Co-Founder & Product)Spent 12 years as a Director of Product Management at Google in California then Singapore.
Felix Lin
(Co-Founder)Former CEO of PickPackGo and Qurb, Inc. Spent 12 years at Google as VP of Payment Ecosystems and VP, Product Management for Chrome OS.
Mark Striebeck
(Co-Founder & Engineering)Spent 16 years as an Engineering Director at Google.
Zelidrag Hornung
(Co-Founder & Engineering)Former Software Design Engineer Lead at Microsoft, later spending 13 years at Google as a Senior Director of Engineering.
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