Staff Back End Engineer

Altruist • San Francisco, CA

11d • Hybrid

About The Position

Altruist is transforming the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry by building an AI platform for wealth professionals. We partner with financial advisors nationwide, empowering them to grow, optimize time and resources, and deliver superior outcomes for their clients. We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you! Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we're excited to hire Staff Back End Engineers to join our growing Engineering organization. We have multiple teams hiring for high impact & high visibility projects, with a particular focus on the security, scalability, and reliability of the platform our clients trust with their assets. This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of being in the office three days each week out of our San Francisco FiDi office.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices
• Primarily a backend engineer but comfortable working across the stack; a core engineering background is preferred over a purely product-focused one
• Shipped meaningful work in security, scale, or infrastructure. This is a builder role, not a Security/AppSec role: we're looking for engineers who own remediation and deliver hardened systems
• 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). Strong Java + AWS is a great anchor
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Full-stack with a backend lean (a plus)
• Fintech, payments, or other security-sensitive, highly regulated environments

Responsibilities

• Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices, helping to mentor other engineers and develop impactful solutions
• Own systemic, cross-service problems end to end — from problem definition through design, implementation, and rollout
• Design, build, and harden identity and access management capabilities: authentication, authorization, RBAC, and OAuth/OIDC flows
• Strengthen our AWS and cloud infrastructure, including its security posture, configuration, and operational guardrails
• Improve database performance, security, and optimization across high-volume, transactional systems
• Harden APIs, services, and distributed systems against failure and abuse
• Drive production reliability: lead incident remediation, close out root causes, and build the observability needed to catch issues early
• Partner with our Security/CISO team to translate identified gaps into durable engineering solutions you design and ship
• Focus on building and scaling services and user-facing web applications that are customer-centric, performant, and secure

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation
• Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans (HMO and PPO)
• 401k savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting
• 16 week paid parental leave after one year of employment
• Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation for each employee
• Company perks program (includes discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, and travel, etc.)
• Financial guidance program (includes counseling on navigating debt, tracking personal spend, saving and planning goals, home-purchasing preparedness, etc.)
• One month work from anywhere policy (with the exception of a few countries)
• Bonus program for eligible roles

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior