Wealthfront seeks to automate financial services and data collection to improve services, automate development processes including testing, and automate observability for system failures, all while maintaining high-quality software development.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in developing backend components, services or APIs in Java or a similar language.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms.
- Knowledge of SQL and experience working with online data stores (one of MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server).
- You have passion for agile, test-driven development, continuous integration and automated testing.
- While not required, experience working with Spark pipelines is a plus along with knowledge of an ORM technology such as Hibernate.
- Another plus is working with a dependency injection framework (one of Guice, Spring, Pico, Dagger).
- You have either a BS or MS in computer science or related field.
Responsibilities
- Work with a team of engineers to design and build new features or enhancements to existing features.
- This work will add capabilities to the various backend systems and services that support Wealthfront’s products, and will be done with automated instrumentation and monitoring to require minimal operational maintenance.
- Help improve the maintainability and stability of our codebase by working on fixing issues and adding necessary enhancements to our existing backend systems.
- Ensure that mission critical backend systems and services operate smoothly in production by triaging and resolving operational issues as part of a team of on-call engineers.
- Proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems.
- Automate the financial services we provide to our clients, and within these services we automate the collection of data that we learn from on our way to making our services even better.
- Automate our development processes.
Other
- Participate in recruiting activities such as interviewing and attending career fairs.
- Provide mentorship to other engineers on the team.
- You also have a passion for working on platforms and backend systems that have measurable business impact and like working in a fast paced cross functional environment.
- Pair you with a mentor who will guide you through our structured onboarding program
- Encourage you to work on projects that match your professional goals
