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Salary: USD 220,000 - 285,000 / annual
Altruist is transforming the wealth management industry by building an AI platform for financial advisors. The company partners with financial advisors nationwide to help them grow, optimize resources, and deliver superior outcomes for clients.
You will join the Engineering organization during an exceptional growth phase, working on high-impact, high-visibility projects with a focus on security, scalability, and reliability of the platform. This is a hybrid role requiring three days per week in the San Francisco FiDi office.
Key responsibilities include:
- Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices, mentoring other engineers and developing impactful solutions
- Own systemic, cross-service problems end-to-end from problem definition through design, implementation, and rollout
- Design, build, and harden identity and access management capabilities including authentication, authorization, RBAC, and OAuth/OIDC flows
- Strengthen AWS and cloud infrastructure, including security posture, configuration, and operational guardrails
- Improve database performance, security, and optimization across high-volume transactional systems
- Harden APIs, services, and distributed systems against failure and abuse
- Drive production reliability by leading incident remediation, closing root causes, and building observability
- Partner with Security/CISO team to translate identified gaps into durable engineering solutions
- Build and scale services and user-facing web applications that are customer-centric, performant, and secure
Requirements:
- 6+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices
- Primary backend engineer background, comfortable working across the stack; core engineering background preferred over purely product-focused
- Track record of shipping meaningful work in security, scale, or infrastructure; this is a builder role focused on remediation and hardened systems, not a Security/AppSec role
- B.A./B.S. degree in Computer Science or similar Engineering/Mathematics degree (preferred)
- Technical aptitude with modern tech stacks: Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes; strong Java + AWS experience is a great anchor
- Fintech, payments, or other security-sensitive, highly regulated environment experience (a plus)
- Demonstrated ownership, superb communication, resilience, and creative problem-solving abilities
