Senior Software Engineer, Altruist
Data Platform, Back End, Data, and AI
$170-226k
+ Stock options
3 days a week in office
All-in-one platform for financial advisors and their clients
Open for applications
All-in-one platform for financial advisors and their clients
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$170-226k
+ Stock options
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
- If you’re passionate about challenging the status quo and making a meaningful impact in the financial advice industry, we’d love to meet you!
- Experience - 4+ years of software engineering experience
- Familiarity with one or more object oriented programming languages, Python or Java preferred
- Experience building applications on top of database systems and working with data warehouses and ETL pipelines
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, especially AWS and Kubernetes
- Proficiency in using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) as part of the software development workflow
- Experience - 4-8 years of experience working with data pipelines and service oriented architecture, ideally at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
- Building data pipelines and optimizing for performance and cost
- Working with mature data processes at scale in a large company
- Prior experience with one or more of the following is preferred
- Data Warehouse such as Snowflake
- Data Orchestration tools such as Airflow
- Data transformation and modeling tools such as dbt
- Education - B.A. / B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 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
What the job involves
- We're looking for an AI-native Senior Software Engineer who combines creative thinking with business acumen
- You'll design and build scalable data pipelines and data serving platforms while proactively identifying opportunities to create intelligent systems that help financial advisors deliver exceptional client service
- Design and build high performance data pipelines to manage the full lifecycle of financial data
- Design and build a service-oriented architecture that delivers data reliably and scales seamlessly across systems
- Create the foundational frameworks and platforms that establish AI as a core capability within the company
- Advocate for and demonstrate the effective use of AI throughout the software development lifecycle
- Ensure data integrity and quality across multiple sources
- Optimize query performance and troubleshoot data issues
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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