Wealthfront
Backend Engineer
$150K–$189K
Palo Alto, CA +3 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2023
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA
New York City, NY
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 2–6 years developing backend components, services, or APIs in Java or a similar language.
- Education
- BS or MS in computer science or a related field.
About the job
Build and maintain backend systems and services that power Wealthfront products, with responsibility for reliability and production operations.
What you'll do
- Design and build backend features and enhance existing systems and services.
- Improve codebase maintainability, stability, reliability, and scalability; triage and resolve production issues as part of an on-call team.
- Participate in automated instrumentation and monitoring, and may contribute to recruiting and mentoring.
What they ask for
- 2–6 years developing backend components, services, or APIs in Java or a similar language.
- Knowledge of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms.
- Knowledge of SQL and experience with online data stores.
- A BS or MS in computer science or a related field.
Nice to have
- Experience with Spark pipelines.
- Knowledge of ORM technology such as Hibernate or a dependency injection framework such as Guice, Spring, Pico, or Dagger.
Pay
$150,000 - $189,000 USD base salary
Tools
Java, SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Spark
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