Engineering Manager, Market Data

About Altruist

Altruist is the modern custodian built exclusively for independent financial advisors that combines a self-clearing brokerage firm with intuitive software for account opening, trading, reporting, and billing — all in one streamlined solution. Financial advisors across the U.S. have partnered with Altruist to reduce costs, save time, grow their business, and provide better outcomes for their clients. Our mission is to make financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to everyone — but we can’t do it alone. We’re seeking exceptional talent to join our team. That’s where you come in! 

If you’re passionate about challenging the status quo and making a meaningful impact in the financial advice industry, 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

Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we’re excited to hire a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our Market Data team, which is responsible for building and maintaining low-latency, high-throughput market data systems. This team ensures that Altruist delivers real-time and security master market data to support trading, analytics, and reporting.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow a team of skilled backend engineers while remaining technically involved in system architecture, design, and development. You will collaborate closely with Product, Trading, and Infrastructure teams to ensure our market data platform is resilient, scalable, and accurate.

Your impact

• Lead & Manage: Oversee and mentor a team of backend engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Hands-on Development: Contribute to system design and coding, ensuring best practices in software engineering and high-quality delivery
• Build & Optimize Market Data Systems: Design and enhance low-latency market data pipelines, tick data, and real-time streaming APIs
• Ensure Reliability & Performance: Drive improvements in monitoring, alerting, and failover mechanisms for market data services
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with Trading, Product, and Infrastructure teams to integrate and optimize market data usage
• Hire & Retain Talent: Recruit top engineering talent and create an environment where engineers can do their best work

What you bring

• Experience - 3 years of experience working as aa engineering leader; at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a strong focus on distributed systems and real-time data processing
  • Strong programming skills in Java or Python, with experience in optimizing performance and scalability
  • Expertise in real-time market data processing, order book management, and historical data
  • Experience with cloud-based architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (i.e.,Java or Python, Kafka, Redis, SQL, NoSQL, cloud-based architecture, docker/kubernetes )
• Education - Ideally looking for a B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science is preferred
• Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable
• Superb communication - Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others
• Resilience - We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along the way
• Assurance - Your confidence is brilli