Backend Engineer

Palo Alto, CA. Posted 38 months ago

The role

Build and maintain backend services, APIs and components that support Wealthfront's products. Help triage and resolve production issues as part of an on-call team, and improve the reliability and scalability of systems.

What you will do

Design and build new features or enhance existing features in backend systems and services
Improve maintainability and stability of the codebase by fixing issues and adding enhancements
Triage and resolve operational issues as part of a team of on-call engineers
Identify opportunities to improve reliability and scalability of systems
Participate in recruiting activities such as interviewing and attending career fairs
Mentor other engineers on the team

Required qualifications

2-6 years of experience developing backend components, services or APIs in Java or a similar language
Knowledge and understanding of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms
Knowledge of SQL and experience with online data stores (NoSQL is acceptable)
Passion for agile, test-driven development, continuous integration and automated testing
BS or MS in computer science or a related field

Nice to have

Experience working with Spark pipelines
Knowledge of an ORM technology such as Hibernate
Experience with a dependency injection framework (Guice, Spring, Pico or Dagger)

Benefits

Medical, vision and dental coverage
401K matching
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Generous time off
Parental leave
Wellness reimbursements
Professional development
Employee investing discount
Generous equity
Discretionary bonus
Structured onboarding with a mentor

Before you apply

Engineers are expected to operate systems in production as well as build them, including on-call work

About the company

Wealthfront's mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions, using technology to build low-cost, easy-to-use financial products. It offers cash, investing, brokerage and mortgage products and has over 1.5 million funded clients.