5 days ago
Base Salary
$185k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead and steward engineering best practices while mentoring other engineers.
- Own defined problems end to end from design through implementation and production deployment.
- Build and extend identity and access management capabilities, including authentication, authorization, RBAC, and OAuth/OIDC flows.
- Improve AWS and cloud infrastructure security, 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, address root causes, and improve observability.
- Partner with the Security/CISO team to design and ship durable fixes for identified security gaps.
- Build and scale performant, secure, customer-centric services and user-facing web applications.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems.
- Ability to independently own and deliver well-defined problems through production without close direction.
- Backend-focused engineering experience with comfort working across the full stack.
- Demonstrated experience building and shipping security, scale, or infrastructure improvements rather than only reviewing them.
- Ideally, a B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science or a similar Engineering or Mathematics field.
- Ability to learn and work with modern technology stacks including Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes, React.js, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
- Fintech, payments, or other security-sensitive and highly regulated environment experience is a plus.
- Strong ownership, communication, resilience, assurance, and creative problem-solving skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with an expectation of working from the Culver City office three days each 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, an employee mobility program, and an annual learning and development budget.
- Company perks program with discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, travel, and other services.
- Financial guidance program covering debt, spending, saving, planning, and home-purchasing preparedness.
- One month work-from-anywhere policy, except in a few countries.
- Office access in Culver City, San Francisco, 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.