Backend Engineer

Wealthfront; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental benefits

Generous time off

401K plan

Professional development opportunities

Employee investing discount

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in Seattle is seeking backend engineers to design and enhance features in their systems. The ideal candidate will have 2-6 years of experience in Java or similar, a passion for agile development, and a strong understanding of SQL and distributed systems. This role offers an estimated salary of $140,000 - $185,000 plus equity and generous benefits including medical and 401K.

Qualifications

• 2-6 years of experience developing backend components, services, or APIs.
• Passion for test-driven development and continuous integration.
• Interest in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build new features or enhance existing features.
• Fix issues and add enhancements to existing backend systems.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve reliability and scalability.

Skills

Backend development

Java or similar

SQL knowledge

Distributed systems

Agile development

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in computer science or related field

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Hibernate

Job description

About Wealthfront Engineering

Wealthfront’s culture centers around continuous learning, innovation, and quality-driven software development. With high quality software as our engineering objective, our key tactic is automation: building and operating in production, automating tests, observability, and development processes to minimize toil.

If you are drawn to being an engineer within such an environment and having outsized impact at a company of our size (~250 employees, half in engineering), we want to hear from you!

About the Role

• We are looking for backend engineers to join core product development teams. You’ll design and build new features or enhance existing features that support Wealthfront’s products, with automated instrumentation and monitoring to require minimal operational maintenance.
• You’ll improve maintainability and stability by fixing issues and adding enhancements to existing backend systems. You’ll ensure mission-critical systems operate smoothly in production by triaging and resolving operational issues as part of a team of on-call engineers. You’ll proactively identify opportunities to improve reliability and scalability.
• You might participate in recruiting activities such as interviewing and attending career fairs and provide mentorship to other engineers on the team.

About You

• 2-6 years of experience developing backend components, services, or APIs in Java or a similar language. Knowledge of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms. Knowledge of SQL and experience with online data stores (e.g., MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server; NoSQL is acceptable).
• Passion for agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing. Interest in platforms and backend systems with measurable business impact and working in a fast-paced cross-functional environment.
• Nice-to-have: Spark pipelines, ORM technologies (e.g., Hibernate), and dependency injection frameworks (Guice, Spring, Pico, Dagger).
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in computer science or a related field.

What Wealthfront Will Provide

• Mentor assignment and a structured onboarding program
• Opportunities to work on projects aligned with your professional goals
• Regular feedback via weekly 1:1s and semi-annual reviews
• Autonomy to thrive as a member of the team

Estimated annual salary range: $140,000 - $185,000 USD plus equity and a discretionary bonus.

Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more.

About Wealthfront

Our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions. We leverage technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products for modern investors.

Our products include:

• A Cash Account with competitive yields and instant secure access
• A zero-commission Stock Investing Account with curated collections
• Automated investing portfolios designed to optimize tax savings and reduce costs

Our products have attracted over 1 million clients who trust us with more than $85 billion. If you’re inspired to help reshape the financial industry, let’s talk!

For more information please visit www.wealthfront.com. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Please review our candidate privacy notice.

Disclosures: All investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. The Cash Account is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC. Wealthfront Advisers provides advisory services. Fees and eligibility requirements may apply to certain features.