Staff Back End Engineer (Trading)

Join Altruist, a fast-growing company transforming the wealth management industry with an AI platform for financial advisors. As a Staff Back End Engineer, you will lead engineering best practices, analyze complex problems, and build scalable applications. Enjoy competitive compensation, health benefits, and a commitment to inclusivity.

• 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!
• Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable
• Resilience - We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along way
• Creative problem solving - Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You’re instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks
• Superb communication - Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others
• Experience - 8+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices
• 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
• Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes)
• Education - Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or similar Engineering/Mathematics degrees
• Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification
• At Altruist we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways
• You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles