Senior Backend Engineer - TypeScript, Fintech Scale & AI

Wealth.com; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid in NYC Office

Competitive salary

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance

Company equity

401k with match

Flexible PTO

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Wealth.com in New York, NY, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale our backend systems powering estate and tax planning products used by thousands of financial advisors.

You will work on a TypeScript-first stack, own significant components end-to-end, and collaborate with product, design, and other engineers to deliver reliable, secure software with strong observability and fast deployment cycles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping backend systems to production.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, or deep experience in another typed language with demonstrated ability to ramp quickly into TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating systems at meaningful scale — handling real traffic, real data volumes, and real users.
• Solid grasp of backend fundamentals: API design (REST/gRPC), relational and NoSQL databases, messaging/event-driven systems, caching, and concurrency.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Production-grade operational mindset: logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, incident response, and a track record of supporting what you ship.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous, startup environment where priorities shift and you're expected to drive your own work.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to collaborate across product, design, and other engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services powering Wealth.com's products — including APIs, data pipelines, and integrations with enterprise wealth management platforms.
• Take features from spec through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring; own what you ship.
• Write production-grade TypeScript code with strong testing, observability, and operational discipline.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate ambiguous problems into well-scoped technical solutions.
• Contribute to system design decisions around scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Participate in code review, technical design discussions, and on-call rotations as the team grows.
• Help shape engineering culture, tooling, and best practices as we scale the org.

Skills

TypeScript

REST/gRPC

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker/Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

NoSQL databases

REST APIs

Job description

Wealth.com in New York, NY, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale our backend systems powering estate and tax planning products used by thousands of financial advisors.

You will work on a TypeScript-first stack, own significant components end-to-end, and collaborate with product, design, and other engineers to deliver reliable, secure software with strong observability and fast deployment cycles.