Senior Data Engineer, Wealthfront
$185-228k
+ Equity and a discretionary bonus.
Automated investment management
Open for applications
Automated investment management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$185-228k
+ Equity and a discretionary bonus.
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a financial system that favors people, not institutions.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5-10 years of experience designing and building metrics-focused deliverables within a data-driven, consumer-facing software company
- Expert level SQL knowledge for manipulating data within MPP relational databases
- Deep knowledge of and experience with one or more high level programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala
- Experienced in big data processing using distributed processing frameworks like Spark or Hadoop Map Reduce
- Experience with one or more analytic reporting tools such as AWS Quicksight or Tableau
- Experience with product and marketing data tools such as Amplitude, Iterable, or Braze will be valuable
- You exhibit all the professional qualities that make you a great Data Engineer: analytic, great communicator, collaborative, detail oriented, etc
- You have a BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
What the job involves
- As a Wealthfront Data Engineer, you will help build and maintain the company’s core datasets
- You will collaborate with stakeholders around the company, within Engineering, Product, Data Science, Marketing, Finance, etc
- You will work with them to understand the details of the data that they produce and consume, and to understand and shape the specifics of their metrics and analyses
- You will invest in building systems which yield automated confidence in our data
- As part of an agile team, you will prioritize the highest impact work and you will take ownership of the outcomes of the projects you work on
- Collaborate with and enable data scientists, analysts, product managers, and business functions by curating the datasets that they require
- Model the business data layer (normalized and denormalized) that will expose data in terms of business entities
- Design, build and deploy scalable and reliable data pipelines (using SQL and other languages) to move and transform data to create business entities
- Maintain a data catalog of business entities and their attributes to help others understand data semantics
- Be extremely vigilant and proactive about data quality. Data quality as measured by axes like completeness, consistency, and timeliness should be of paramount importance to you and you should be quantitative in your focus on it
- Manage reporting and dashboarding tools being used by colleagues across the company to transform data into meaningful insights
- Help define and maintain company wide metrics and deploy them with data quality checks
- Build a new best-of-breed data access layer on top of the data platform (Presto/Athena, S3, Redshift) to expose data to all stakeholders
- Become a subject matter expert in various areas of Wealthfront data, including within domains such as clickstream, product usage, and client financials
- Work within a team of Data Engineers working together to deliver timely, high quality implementations within the company’s scrum process
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.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-4% employee growth in 12 months
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 values
- Client-centricity: Wealthfront puts its clients first, providing personalized financial advice and investment management services to help them achieve their financial goals
- Transparency: Wealthfront values transparency in all aspects of its business, from its investment strategies to its fees and pricing
- Innovation: Wealthfront is committed to innovation, using cutting-edge technology to provide its clients with the best possible financial services and products
- Continuous learning: Wealthfront encourages its employees to continuously learn and grow, providing opportunities for professional development and advancement
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
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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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