Staff Backend Engineer — Scale, Security & Reliability

Altruist; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity for all team members

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Inclusive workplace

Work-life integration

Job summary

Altruist is seeking Staff Back End Engineers to scale and secure our distributed platform in Los Angeles. You’ll own cross-service problems end-to-end, mentor teammates, and lead the design and rollout of high-impact solutions that improve authentication, authorization, and overall system reliability.

The right candidate ships meaningful work in fintech/security domains, with strong Java/Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes skills, and a drive for reliability and observability across large-scale

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience in distributed systems.
• Backend-focused with ownership of remediation and hardened systems.
• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Ability to design secure auth flows (OAuth/OIDC) and RBAC.
• Strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, and security.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and harden identity and access management: authentication, authorization, RBAC, OAuth/OIDC.
• Strengthen AWS and cloud infrastructure security posture and guardrails.
• Improve database performance, security, and optimization for high-volume systems.
• Harden APIs and distributed services against failure and abuse.
• Drive production reliability: incident remediation and root-cause analysis with observability.
• Collaborate with Security/CISO to ship durable engineering solutions.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

AWS

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Security

Observability

OAuth/OIDC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Altruist is seeking Staff Back End Engineers to scale and secure our distributed platform in Los Angeles. You’ll own cross-service problems end-to-end, mentor teammates, and lead the design and rollout of high-impact solutions that improve authentication, authorization, and overall system reliability.

The right candidate ships meaningful work in fintech/security domains, with strong Java/Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes skills, and a drive for reliability and observability across large-scale