Farther

AI-Native Data Platform Engineer

Farther
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Responsibilities

  • Design scalable ingestion pipelines across custodians such as Schwab, Fidelity, and Pershing and internal financial systems.
  • Build and evolve canonical models for accounts, positions, transactions, balances, corporate actions, and household hierarchies.
  • Define the financial data ontology and enforce strong data contracts across services.
  • Implement reconciliation frameworks and golden-source resolution across multi-vendor datasets.
  • Engineer AI-ready data layers optimized for embeddings, vector search, and retrieval-augmented generation architectures.
  • Structure financial datasets to improve prompt reliability and LLM output consistency.
  • Architect closed-loop agent-driven systems that monitor, reason over, and autonomously remediate data inconsistencies.
  • Implement observability, lineage, governance, and fine-grained access controls across regulated datasets.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience building production-grade data platforms.
  • Deep SQL expertise and strong Python skills for data engineering.
  • Experience designing canonical schemas and resolving inconsistencies across vendor datasets.
  • Strong understanding of custodial financial data, including positions, trades, balances, performance, and corporate actions.
  • Familiarity with embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval architectures.
  • Exposure to prompt engineering and structured context design for LLM systems.
  • Knowledge of MLOps fundamentals including versioning, monitoring, and reproducibility.
  • Comfort with AWS data services including S3, Lambda, ECS, Glue, Redshift, and OpenSearch, as well as event-driven orchestration.
  • Wealth management or capital markets experience is a bonus.
  • Experience integrating OpenAI or Anthropic APIs into production systems is a bonus.
  • Experience designing retrieval schemas for AI agents is a bonus.
  • Experience with authorization and policy platforms such as OSO or Auth0 is a bonus.
  • Experience implementing fine-grained access control for AI-driven systems is a bonus.
  • Familiarity with GitHub-based CI/CD workflows and automation is a bonus.
  • Experience with data governance, lineage, and compliance controls is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions
  • Full health benefits
  • 401(k) matching and Roth IRA options
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Collaborative work across product, design, and engineering

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftAWSPythonSQL

Categories

AI ApplicationsData Engineering
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About Farther

501-1,000 employees

Welcome to Intelligent Wealth. Farther is the Intelligent Wealth Platform, natively built to unlock greater wealth throughout your financial life. Named the #1 fastest growing financial services firm in the nation by Inc 5000 in 2025, Farther has surpassed $23b in recruited assets across 200+ wealth managers and 19,000+ clients.