Backend Engineer

Wealthfront is a company focused on creating a financial system that benefits individuals through innovative technology. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to join their core product development teams, responsible for designing and building backend features, improving code maintainability, and ensuring the reliability of critical systems in production.

Responsibilities

You’ll work with other engineers to design and build new features or enhance existing features

This work will add capabilities to the various backend systems and services that support Wealthfront’s products, and will be done with automated instrumentation and monitoring to require minimal operational maintenance

You’ll help improve the maintainability and stability of our codebase by fixing issues and adding necessary enhancements to our existing backend systems

You’ll ensure that mission critical backend systems and services operate smoothly in production by triaging and resolving operational issues as part of a team of on-call engineers

You’ll proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems

Additionally, you might play a part in evolving the engineering organization by participating in recruiting activities such as interviewing and attending career fairs and providing mentorship to other engineers on the team

Preferred

Experience working with Spark pipelines

Knowledge of an ORM technology such as Hibernate

Working with a dependency injection framework (one of Guice, Spring, Pico, Dagger)

Spark pipelines

ORM technology

Hibernate

Dependency injection framework

Guice

Spring

Pico

Dagger

Benefits

Equity

A discretionary bonus

Medical

Vision

Dental

401K plan

Generous time off

Parental leave

Wellness reimbursements

Professional development

Employee investing discount

Company

Automated investing and savings platform

Palo Alto, California, USA

https://www.wealthfront.com/

Founded in 2011

201-500 employees

Qualifications

2-6 years of experience in developing backend components, services or APIs in Java or a similar language

Knowledge and understanding of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms

Knowledge of SQL and experience working with online data stores (ideally something like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server but NoSQL is okay)

Passion for agile, test-driven development, continuous integration and automated testing

Passion for working on platforms and backend systems that have measurable business impact

Ability to work in a fast paced cross functional environment

Either a BS or MS in computer science or related field

Experience working with Spark pipelines

Knowledge of an ORM technology such as Hibernate

Working with a dependency injection framework (one of Guice, Spring, Pico, Dagger)

Required skills

Represents the skills you have, click on the tags, Java, Distributed systems, Functional programming, SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, NoSQL, Spark pipelines, Hibernate, Guice, Spring, Pico, Dagger, Passion for agile development

Preferred skills

Experience working with Spark pipelines, Knowledge of an ORM technology such as Hibernate

Experience

2-6 years