Staff Back End Engineer, Trading

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.

change and overcoming obstacles.

 

The opportunity

Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we’re excited to hire a Staff Back End Engineer to join our growing Trading team. 

 

Your impact

• Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows
• Design, build, and scale robust systems for high performance and efficiency
• 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 bring

• Experience - 8+ years of experience working as a software engineer at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
• 8+ years of building scalable RESTful back-end services using Java and Spring Boot framework
• Proven experience in the fintech industry with a deep understanding of trading systems, market data, and securities and asset classes
• Ability to implement 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
• Education - Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science
• Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (Java,Springboot, AWS, SQL)
• Strong grasp over database technologies using SQL and NoSQL databases like Postgres
• Strong understanding of caching technologies like Redis
• Working knowledge of Docker/Container technologies like Kubernetes or ECS
• 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 brilliant, yet ego-less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives. 
• Creative problem solving - Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You’re instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks.

Bonus points if you bring

• 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
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