About Altruist
Altruist is the modern custodian built exclusively for independent financial advisors that combines a self-clearing brokerage firm with intuitive software for account opening, trading, reporting, and billing — all in one streamlined solution. Financial advisors across the U.S. have partnered with Altruist to reduce costs, save time, grow their business, and provide better outcomes for their clients. Our mission is to make financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to everyone — but we can’t do it alone. We’re seeking exceptional talent to join our team. That’s where you come in!
If you’re passionate about challenging the status quo and making a meaningful impact in the financial advice industry, we’d love to meet you!
But first, our values
Kindness - Kindness doesn’t just equal niceness. We listen to understand. We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.
Brilliance - Humility is the skill we’re most proud of and possessing a growth mindset is always top of mind. We take ownership in everything we touch; regularly using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team. We succeed and fail as one.
Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it’s hard. We are nimble and maintain a sense of urgency, swiftly adapting to change and overcoming obstacles.
About the position
We seek a motivated and dynamic leader to be part of our Clearing team. The Clearing team's mission is to streamline operations and empower a better wealth management experience with robust, scalable, and secure solutions. As a Sr. Back End Engineer, you will work closely with engineering leaders, product, and other cross-functional teams to prioritize and deliver product requirements.
What you’ll do
- Work closely with the Engineering Manager, leads, engineers, product and business teams
- Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows
- Focus on building and scaling systems
- Deliver RESTful APIs with microservices
- Integrate data from multiple custodians, aggregating, modeling, and loading the data into a transactional and warehouse system
- Solve complex problems within an event-based environment
- Work on complex calculations in a consistent and accurate manner
What you’ll bring
- Experience building scalable RESTful back-end services using Java and Spring Boot framework
- Implemented microservices architecture for backend services to deliver highly distributed and resilient architecture
- Strong understanding of design patterns, and implementation of, event-driven architecture
- Implement and believe in automated testing like unit/integration test
- Experience using Swagger for API documentation, SonarQube for code quality
- Strong grasp over database technologies using SQL and NoSQL databases like Postgres, MySQL, HBase/Cassandra, Redis
Bonus points
- Knowledge of Docker/Container technologies like Kubernetes or ECS
- Experience with Python & Airflow
- Experience building cloud infrastructure with Terraform on cloud technologies like AWS
- Experience with Gitlab and building pipelines
- Strong knowledge of Authentication and Authorization principles
- Familiarity with ELK stack to ensure we have consistent logging, monitoring, and alerting built for the services
- Practiced Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
- Strong domain knowledge of Clearing or Brokerage platforms and financial services
Los Angeles, CA salary range
$158,000—$203,000 USD
What we bring
Attracting and retaining top-tier talent is a priority. We are proud of the culture we’ve built and are cognizant of the ever-changing professional landscape. Our dynamic offering of perks and benefits are tailored for you to feel your best while doing your best.
- A hybrid work schedule to promote strong, in-person collaboration and a healthy work-life-balance.
- Stunning, amenity-filled office spaces in Culver City, CA and Dallas, TX. Our offices are intentionally designed for comfort, collaboration, and productivity. Employees get to enjoy free parking and EV charging, cold-brew and kombucha on tap, a fully stocked pantry with snacks, etc.
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans
- 401k savings plan with matching contributions and immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO so you can satisfy your passions outside of work
- Generous paid parental leave
- Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation for each employee
- Physical and emotional wellness programs that nurture both your mind and body
- Company perks program (includes discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, entertainment and travel, etc.)
- Financial guidance program (includes counseling on navigating debt, tracking personal spend, saving and planning goals, home-purchasing preparedness, etc.)
Total compensation includes a competitive benefits package along with equity in the form of Stock Options (ISOs). A salary offer will be determined by a number of factors including experience, skill level, internal pay equity, geographic location, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs regularly to ensure fair, equitable, and competitive pay. At Altruist, we are committed to providing fair, equitable, and competitive compensation by leveraging market data to inform our pay bands. Base salaries will be reviewed at regular intervals throughout the year, typically in conjunction with performance review cycles. By evaluating compensation on a regular basis, we are able to reward high performance and ensure all employees have opportunities for growth.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Altruist we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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What We Do
Altruist is on a mission to make independent financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible. We’ve built an all-in-one platform that reduces barriers for financial advisors to deliver great advice. Our software makes advisors more efficient and gives them the freedom to charge less. This means clients pay less, make more, and gain confidence. We want to help tens of millions of people have an amazing experience with their money by supporting thousands of financial professionals.
Why Work With Us
We're helping more people get access to quality financial advice. This means lower costs, no minimums, and full transparency. Our team is passionate about our mission and we love working together. Altruist provides all the usual perks of a tech startup, just no ego or politics. We believe in hiring brilliant, hard-working, nice people (no jerks).
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