Senior Backend Engineer

Wealthfront

(Redwood City, California)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Wealthfront

Wealthfront is the only robo-advisor to offer both investment management and financial planning exclusively through software. Because of this approach, we've quickly become the automated advisor of choice among young people. Anyone can open a Wealthfront investment account with $500 to access a unique Passive+ investment strategy that includes a combination of a diversified portfolio of ETFs and tax minimization strategies.

Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, test and maintain backend components: application, data, infrastructure, analytics and deployment
  • Design and build systems with automated instrumentation and monitoring
  • Live and breathe resiliency and uptime
  • Consistently improve maintainability and stability of the codebase
Ideal Candidate
  • Expertise in Java or similar language (such as C++ or C#)
  • Experience with online data stores (preferably MySQL)
  • Experience with offline data stores (preferably Hadoop stack) a plus
  • Experience with at least one scripting language
  • Real passion for agile, test-driven development, continuous integration and automated testing
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms
  • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, math, physics or related field

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Redwood City, California
Skills Desired
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  • Analytics
  • C++
  • Design
  • Hadoop
  • Infrastructure
  • Java
  • Math
  • MySQL
  • Physics
  • Automated Testing
  • C#
  • Continuous Integration
  • Instrumentation
  • Scripting
  • Computer Science
  • Stack
  • Deployment
  • Codebase
  • Functional Programming

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