WealthfrontEngineering - Backend

Backend Engineer

Palo Alto, CAFull-timeMid-LevelSalary: Not disclosed
Posted Sep 11, 2023Deadline: Keep Open
Job SnapshotActively hiring
LocationPalo Alto, CA
Job typeFull-time
SalaryNot disclosed
DeadlineKeep Open

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Experience level
Mid-Level
Work style
Hybrid
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Salary
Not disclosed
Key skills
AutomationObservabilityTestingProduction Operations

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What you'll own

Build and operate backend systems while automating away operational toil, testing, and observability.

What they're looking for

Engineers with experience in building production‑grade services, strong automation skills, and a focus on high‑quality software.

Why this role matters

The role drives Wealthfront’s core mission of automating financial services and ensuring reliable, observable production systems.

Best suited to

Candidates who thrive as builder/operators, love continuous learning, and enjoy automating processes at scale.

Fintech requirements

Visa sponsorship: No
Work arrangement: hybrid

About this role

*This role supports hybrid in-office US-based work in San Francisco - Bay Area, New York, and Seattle.

About Wealthfront Engineering

Wealthfront’s culture centers around continuous learning, innovation, and quality-driven software development. With high quality software as our ultimate engineering objective, our key tactic is automation:

  • Wealthfront software automates 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.
  • Wealthfront engineers function as builder/operators, with dual responsibility for building the system and operating it in production. Any toil that this brings about is automated away by engineers. This investment in automation is expected, and the prioritization of it is always built into our planning and execution.
  • Wealthfront engineers automate our development processes. For example, Wealthfront engineers automate all of our testing. Manual testing is not part of the software development lifecycle at Wealthfront.
  • Wealthfront engineers automate observability in case of failure. If something is up, our systems inform engineers appropriately. If our systems are quiet, they are healthy.

If you are drawn to being an engineer within such an environment, and having outsized impact as an engineer at a magnitude that is only available within a company achieving greatness at our size (~350 employees, half in engineering), then we want to hear from you!

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Required skills

AutomationObservabilityTestingProduction Operations