Senior Backend Engineer, Trading & Compliance Systems

Betterment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Student loan matching

Seven employee resource groups

Sabbatical after 6 years

One Medical membership

Job summary

Betterment is seeking a Senior Engineer in our Broker Dealer organization to balance on-time delivery of new platform features with system stability and scale. You will mentor engineers and help design, build, and optimize backend systems that handle high volumes of money movement and risk checks.

We value clean code, pragmatic programming, and lean engineering as we pursue ambitious platform improvements. You will work in small teams, share ideas openly, and contribute to growth and excellence

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead and manage projects that span one or more teams, considering tradeoffs to ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining high standards of quality, performance and security.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining core backend software components.
• Experience working in large-scale distributed systems.
• A strong command of fundamental algorithms and data structures.
• 5+ years of professional expertise in at least one object oriented language, preferably Java.
• 5+ years professional experience with SQL and relational databases, including designing schemas and writing detailed SQL queries.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers across multiple projects.
• Design and scale core backend components for reliability and performance.
• Balance feature delivery with system stability and security.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align with business objectives.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Algorithms & DS

Java

SQL

Tools

Relational databases

Job description

Betterment is seeking a Senior Engineer in our Broker Dealer organization to balance on-time delivery of new platform features with system stability and scale. You will mentor engineers and help design, build, and optimize backend systems that handle high volumes of money movement and risk checks.

We value clean code, pragmatic programming, and lean engineering as we pursue ambitious platform improvements. You will work in small teams, share ideas openly, and contribute to growth and excellence