Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wealthfront is a company focused on transforming the investment advisory business to help young professionals build long-term wealth. They are seeking backend engineers to design and build new features, enhance existing capabilities, and ensure the smooth operation of mission-critical backend systems and services.
Responsibilities
- Design and build new features or enhance existing features
- Add capabilities to the various backend systems and services that support Wealthfront’s products
- Improve the maintainability and stability of the codebase by fixing issues and adding necessary enhancements to existing backend systems
- Ensure that mission critical backend systems and services operate smoothly in production by triaging and resolving operational issues as part of a team of on-call engineers
- Proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems
- Participate in recruiting activities such as interviewing and attending career fairs
- Provide mentorship to other engineers on the team
Skills
- 2-6 years of experience in developing backend components, services or APIs in Java or a similar language
- Knowledge and understanding of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms
- Knowledge of SQL and experience working with online data stores (ideally something like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server but NoSQL is okay)
- Passion for agile, test-driven development, continuous integration and automated testing
- Passion for working on platforms and backend systems that have measurable business impact
- Ability to work in a fast paced cross functional environment
- Either a BS or MS in computer science or related field
- Experience working with Spark pipelines
- Knowledge of an ORM technology such as Hibernate
- Experience working with a dependency injection framework (one of Guice, Spring, Pico, Dagger)
Education Requirements
- Either a BS or MS in computer science or related field.
Benefits
- Medical
- Vision
- Dental
- 401K plan
- Generous time off
- Parental leave
- Wellness reimbursements
- Professional development
- Employee investing discount
- And more!
Company Overview
Wealthfront integrates investing and saving products to help young professionals build long-term wealth in any market condition. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.wealthfront.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Wealthfront has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 8 in 2025, 15 in 2024, 7 in 2023, 12 in 2022, 19 in 2021, 23 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.