About Altruist

Altruist is a fast growing fintech company that’s transforming the financial advice industry. Our mission is to make financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to everyone. We’re a modern custodian built exclusively for registered investment advisors (RIAs). As we disrupt legacy custodians and revolutionize the $100T RIA market, we’re seeking exceptional individuals to join our team. If you embody our core values of kindness, brilliance, and grit, and are passionate about making a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you!

About the position

We seek a motivated and dynamic leader to be part of our Trading team. The Trading team’s mission is to streamline operations and empower a better trading experience for the advisors on our platform.

What you’ll do

Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows
Focus on building and scaling systems
Deliver RESTful APIs with microservices
Integrate data from multiple custodians, aggregating, modeling, and loading the data into a transactional and warehouse system
Solve complex problems within an event-based environment
Work on complex calculations in a consistent and accurate manner

What you’ll bring

5+ years of building scalable RESTful back-end services using Java and Spring Boot framework
Experience with building out trading applications
Implemented microservices architecture for backend services to deliver highly distributed and resilient architecture
Strong understanding of design patterns, and implementation of, event-driven architecture
Implement and believe in automated testing like unit/integration test
Experience using Swagger for API documentation, SonarQube for code quality
Strong grasp over database technologies using SQL and NoSQL databases like Postgres, MySQL, HBase/Cassandra, Redis
Strong understanding of caching technologies like CDN, Redis, Memcache.
Working knowledge of Docker/Container technologies like Kubernetes or ECS

Bonus points

Experience building cloud infrastructure with Terraform on cloud technologies like AWS
Experience with Gitlab and building pipelines
Strong knowledge of Authentication and Authorization principles
Familiarity with ELK stack to ensure we have consistent logging, monitoring, and alerting built for the services
Practiced Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
Strong domain knowledge of Trading or Brokerage platforms and financial services

San Francisco, CA salary range

$170,000—$226,000 USD

Benefits

Competitive salary and stock options
Premium Healthcare, Dental, and Vision insurance plans
Generous paid parental leave
401(k) savings plan with matching contributions
Flexible paid time off

Total compensation includes a competitive benefits package along with equity in the form of Stock Options (ISOs). A salary offer will be determined by a number of factors including experience, skill level, internal pay equity, geographic location, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs regularly to ensure fair, equitable, and competitive pay. At Altruist, we are committed to providing fair, equitable, and competitive compensation by leveraging market data to inform our pay bands. Base salaries will be reviewed at regular intervals throughout the year, typically in conjunction with performance review cycles. By evaluating compensation on a regular basis, we are able to reward high performance and ensure all employees have opportunities for growth.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Altruist we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Compensation Overview

6 month growth

1 year growth

2 year growth