Senior Frontend Engineer, Altruist
Design Systems
$170-226k
+ Equity for eligible positions
3+ days a week in office
All-in-one platform for financial advisors and their clients
Be an early applicant
All-in-one platform for financial advisors and their clients
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-226k
+ Equity for eligible positions
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 - 8+ years front-end/product-engineering experience, 2+ years owning design-system or UI-platform work
- Education - Ideally looking for a Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar engineering field of study
- Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks
- Deep expertise in React, React Native, TypeScript, Storybook, Jest/RTL, modern build tooling
- Proven record of shipping token-driven, multi-brand component libraries
- Fluency with Figma plugin APIs, design-token pipelines, visual-regression tooling (Percy, Chromatic)
- Strategic thinker and hands-on mentor with excellent communication skills
- Working knowledge of GraphQL, Node.js, Vite/Webpack; passion for WCAG AA, performance, and automated quality gates
- 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
- Direct experience with design-system and AI
- Familiarity with design-system analytics (adoption metrics, token usage)
- Contributions to open-source design-system tools (Storybook, Style Dictionary, etc.)
What the job involves
- Altruist is looking for a Senior Front End Engineer to lead the strategy, execution, and governance of our cross-platform design system that powers every digital surface—from advisor dashboards in React to end-client experiences in React Native
- In this role, you’ll shape the systems that ensure consistent, high-quality user experiences across web and mobile
- You'll work at the intersection of engineering and design, helping dozens of product squads move faster while elevating accessibility, performance, and brand fidelity
- Architect & scale a versioned, token-driven system (color, type, spacing, motion) that supports light/dark and partner themes across web and mobile
- Engineer components: build and refactor robust React & React Native components in TypeScript with automated a11y, visual-regression, and unit tests
- Elevate developer experience: add Storybook addons, lint rules and codemods that keep feature teams on the happy path
- Document & govern: define contribution guidelines, release process, and RFC workflow; maintain living docs in Storybook/Docusaurus synced with Figma
- Partner cross-functionally: pair with designers, brand, and accessibility SMEs to turn visual intent into resilient APIs; mentor engineers on performance budgets and WCAG compliance
- Monitor quality: enforce Lighthouse budgets, bundle-size caps, and Datadog/New Relic dashboards so the design system never blocks shipping delightful features
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
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
- 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 HQ
McManus, Culver City, CA
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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