Staff Back End Engineer

About the position

Altruist is the modern custodian built exclusively for independent financial advisors that combines a self-clearing brokerage firm with intuitive software for account opening, trading, reporting, and billing - all in one streamlined solution. Financial advisors across the U.S. have partnered with Altruist to reduce costs, save time, grow their business, and provide better outcomes for their clients. Our mission is to make financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to everyone - but we can't do it alone. We're seeking exceptional talent to join our team. That's where you come in! 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!

Responsibilities

• Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices, helping to mentor other engineers and develop impactful solutions.
• Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows.
• Focus on building and scaling services and user facing web applications.
• Build customer centric scalable and performant applications and features.
• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and ELT processes.
• Build new data integrations based on established requirements.
• Perform data analysis to investigate and resolve data issues.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices.
• Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or similar Engineering/Mathematics degrees.
• Technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes).
• Pride in every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable.
• Superb communication skills with intentional dialogue.
• Unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity faced.
• Strong knowledge base, ability to discover the unknown, and openness to differing perspectives.
• Instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks.

Benefits

• A hybrid work schedule to promote strong, in-person collaboration and a healthy work-life-balance.
• Stunning, amenity-filled office spaces in Culver City, CA and Dallas, TX.
• Competitive salary and equity packages.
• Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• 401k savings plan with matching contributions and immediate vesting.
• Flexible PTO.
• Generous paid parental leave.
• Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation for each employee.
• Physical and emotional wellness programs.
• Company perks program including discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, entertainment and travel.
• Financial guidance program.