Altruist

Staff Back End Engineer, Trading

Altruist
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5 months ago

Base Salary

$200k - $285k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead and steward engineering best practices while mentoring other engineers.
  • Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows.
  • Build and scale services and user-facing web applications.
  • Develop customer-centric, scalable, and performant applications and features.
  • Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and ELT processes.
  • Build new data integrations from established requirements.
  • Perform data analysis to investigate and resolve data issues.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems using strong engineering practices.
  • Ideally, a B.A. or B.S. in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics.
  • Ability to quickly become productive with modern technology stacks including Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Postgres, and Kubernetes.
  • Strong ownership, communication, resilience, assurance, and creative problem-solving abilities.

Benefits

  • Remote work for candidates located in Chicago, Illinois, with some expected travel to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
  • Hybrid work schedule for most positions to support in-person collaboration.
  • Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans, including HMO and PPO options.
  • 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, and travel.
  • Financial guidance program covering debt, spending, saving, planning, and home-purchasing preparedness.
  • One-month work-from-anywhere policy, with some country restrictions.
  • Competitive pay and equity for eligible positions.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Altruist

201-500 employees

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.

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