Staff Backend Engineer

Join Altruist, a fast-growing company in the financial technology sector, as a Staff Backend Engineer. In this role, you will lead engineering best practices, analyze and solve complex problems, and build scalable and performant applications. You will also develop and maintain data pipelines, build new data integrations, and perform data analysis. Altruist offers 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.
• Superb communication - intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others
• Experience - 6+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices
• Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable
• 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
• 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
• Resilience - We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along way