Back End Engineer

About Altruist

Altruist is transforming the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry by building an AI platform for wealth professionals. We partner with financial advisors nationwide, empowering them to grow, optimize time and resources, and deliver superior outcomes for their clients.

We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!

But first, our values

Kindness - Kindness doesn’t just equal niceness. We listen to understand. We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.

Brilliance - Humility is the skill we’re most proud of and possessing a growth mindset is always top of mind. We take ownership in everything we touch; regularly using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team. We succeed and fail as one.

Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it’s hard. We are nimble and maintain a sense of urgency, swiftly adapting to change and overcoming obstacles.

The opportunity

We're looking for an AI-native Senior Software Engineer who combines creative thinking with business acumen. You'll design and build scalable data pipelines and data serving platforms while proactively identifying opportunities to create intelligent systems that help financial advisors deliver exceptional client service. 

Your impact

• Design and build high performance data pipelines to manage the full lifecycle of financial data.
• Create the foundational frameworks and platforms that establish AI as a core capability within the company
• Advocate for and demonstrate the effective use of AI throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Ensure data integrity and quality across multiple sources
• Optimize query performance and troubleshoot data issues

What you bring

• Experience - 4+ years of software engineering experience

• Proficiency in modern programming languages, with a strong focus on Python or Java

• Experience working with database systems, data warehouses, ETL pipelines, and mature data processes at scale

• Experience with offline data processing and batch pipelines (such as Spark, or similar batch processing frameworks)