Backend Engineer

Wealthfront•San Francisco, CA

73d•$140,000 - $185,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for backend engineers to join our core product development teams. You'll work with other engineers to design and build new features or enhance existing features. This work will add capabilities to the various backend systems and services that support Wealthfront's products, and will be done with automated instrumentation and monitoring to require minimal operational maintenance. You'll help improve the maintainability and stability of our codebase by fixing issues and adding necessary enhancements to our existing backend systems. You'll ensure that mission critical backend systems and services operate smoothly in production by triaging and resolving operational issues as part of a team of on-call engineers. You'll proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems. Additionally, you might play a part in evolving the engineering organization by participating in recruiting activities such as interviewing and attending career fairs and providing mentorship to other engineers on the team.

Requirements

You have 2-6 years of experience in developing backend components, services or APIs in Java or a similar language.
You demonstrate knowledge and understanding of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms.
You have knowledge of SQL and experience working with online data stores (ideally something like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server but NoSQL is okay).
You have passion for agile, test-driven development, continuous integration and automated testing.
You also have a passion for working on platforms and backend systems that have measurable business impact and like working in a fast paced cross functional environment.
You have either a BS or MS in computer science or related field.

Nice To Haves

experience working with Spark pipelines is a plus
knowledge of an ORM technology such as Hibernate
working with a dependency injection framework (one of Guice, Spring, Pico, Dagger).

Responsibilities

design and build new features or enhance existing features
improve the maintainability and stability of our codebase by fixing issues and adding necessary enhancements to our existing backend systems
ensure that mission critical backend systems and services operate smoothly in production by triaging and resolving operational issues as part of a team of on-call engineers
proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems
participating in recruiting activities such as interviewing and attending career fairs and providing mentorship to other engineers on the team