Staff Back End Engineer (Trading)

Join Altruist, a fast-growing company in the financial services industry, as a Staff Back End Engineer. In this role, you will lead engineering best practices, analyze and solve complex problems, and build scalable applications and data pipelines. You will be rewarded with competitive compensation, equity, and comprehensive health benefits. Altruist values inclusivity and work-life integration, and is looking for exceptional talent to help achieve its mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all.

• 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, focusing on building and scaling services and user-facing web applications.
• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and ELT processes, build new data integrations based on established requirements.
• 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!
• Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes)
• Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable
• Creative problem solving - Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You’re instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks
• 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
• Education - Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or similar Engineering/Mathematics degrees
• Resilience - We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along way
• Experience - 8+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices
• Superb communication - Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others