Backend Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for backend engineers to join our core product development teams. You’ll work with other engineers to design and build new features or enhance existing features. This work will add capabilities to the various backend systems and services that support Wealthfront’s products, built with automated instrumentation and monitoring to require minimal operational maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Help improve the maintainability and stability of our codebase by fixing issues and adding enhancements to existing backend systems.
• Ensure mission-critical backend systems and services operate smoothly in production by triaging and resolving operational issues as part of an on-call team.
• Proactively identify opportunities for improving system reliability and scalability.
• Participate in recruiting activities (interviewing, career fairs) and provide mentorship to team members.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 2-6 years of experience developing backend components, services, or APIs in Java or a similar language.
• Knowledge and understanding of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms.
• Knowledge of SQL and experience working with online data stores (e.g., MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, or NoSQL).
• Passion for agile methodologies, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience working with Spark pipelines.
• Knowledge of an ORM technology such as Hibernate.
• Experience with a dependency injection framework (Guice, Spring, Pico, Dagger).

What Wealthfront Offers

• Mentorship through a structured onboarding program
• Alignment of projects with professional goals and feedback via weekly 1:1s and semi-annual reviews
• High autonomy in a builder/operator culture