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Backend Engineer

Wealthfront· Engineering – Engineering - Backend
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Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area, NY, Seattle)$150k - $189kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Backend engineers to join Wealthfront's core product development teams. Design and build new features or enhance existing features for backend systems and services, with automated instrumentation, monitoring, and on-call responsibilities. Potential involvement in recruiting and mentoring.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build new features or enhance existing features for backend systems and services.
  • Improve maintainability and stability of the codebase by fixing issues and adding enhancements.
  • Ensure mission-critical backend systems operate smoothly in production by triaging and resolving operational issues as part of a team of on-call engineers.
  • Proactively identify opportunities for improving reliability and scalability of systems.
  • Participate in recruiting activities (interviews, career fairs) and provide mentorship to other engineers.

Qualifications

  • 2-6 years of experience in 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 (e.g., MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server; NoSQL acceptable)
  • Passion for agile, test-driven development, CI, and automated testing
  • Interest in platforms and backend systems with measurable business impact in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
  • Optional but preferred: experience with Spark pipelines, ORM (e.g., Hibernate), and dependency injection frameworks (Guice, Spring, Pico, Dagger)
  • BS or MS in computer science or related field

Skills

Required:Backend developmentDistributed systemsSQLJava

Benefits

  • medical, vision, dental
  • 401K matching
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • generous time off
  • par parental leave
  • wellness reimbursements
  • professional development
  • employee investing discount
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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