5 days ago
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead and steward engineering best practices while mentoring other engineers.
- Own defined problems independently from design through implementation and production.
- Build and extend identity and access management capabilities, including authentication, authorization, RBAC, and OAuth/OIDC flows.
- Improve AWS and cloud infrastructure, including security posture, configuration, and operational guardrails.
- Improve performance, security, and optimization for high-volume transactional databases.
- Harden APIs, services, and distributed systems against failure and abuse.
- Participate in incident response and remediation, fix root causes, and improve observability.
- Partner with the Security/CISO team to design and ship durable engineering fixes.
- Solve complex problems across multiple user personas and workflows.
- Build and scale customer-centric, performant, and secure services and web applications.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems.
- Ability to own well-defined problems end to end and drive them to production independently.
- Backend-focused full-stack experience, with comfort working across the stack.
- Demonstrated experience building and shipping work involving security, scale, or infrastructure; this is not a dedicated Security/AppSec role.
- Preferred bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar engineering or mathematics field.
- Ability to become productive with modern technology stacks, including Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes, React.js, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
- Fintech, payments, or other security-sensitive and highly regulated experience is a plus.
- Strong ownership, communication, resilience, technical aptitude, and creative problem-solving skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with an expectation of working from the San Francisco FiDi office three days per week.
- Premium HMO and PPO healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans.
- 401(k) savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave after one year of employment.
- Professional growth opportunities, including an employee mobility program and annual learning and development budget.
- Company perks program with discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, travel, and more.
- Financial guidance program covering debt, spending, saving, planning, and home-purchasing preparedness.
- One month of work-from-anywhere time, subject to country exceptions.
- Office amenities and collaboration spaces in San Francisco, Culver City, and Dallas.
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About Altruist
Altruist builds a custodian and wealth management platform for independent registered investment advisors, combining account opening, trading, portfolio management, billing, and reporting in one system. The company generates revenue as a brokerage custodian and through advisor software and services. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Culver City, California, it is privately held and serves RIAs across the United States.