Senior Back End Engineer

Altruist is transforming the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry by building an AI platform for wealth professionals. We partner with financial advisors nationwide, empowering them to grow, optimize time and resources, and deliver superior outcomes for their clients.

We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, 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.

Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we're excited to hire Senior Back End Engineers to join our growing Engineering organization. We have multiple teams hiring for high impact & high visibility projects, with a particular focus on the security, scalability, and reliability of the platform our clients trust with their assets. Our recruitment team will work with you to match you to the right opportunity to help you grow your career at Altruist. This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of being in the office three days each week out of our Culver City office.

• Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices, helping to mentor other engineers and develop impactful solutions

• Independently take a defined problem from design through implementation and into production

• Build and extend identity and access management capabilities: authentication, authorization, RBAC, and OAuth/OIDC flows

• Implement improvements to our AWS and cloud infrastructure, including its 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

• Contribute to production reliability: participate in incident response and remediation, fix root causes, and add the observability needed to catch issues early

• Partner with our Security/CISO team to turn identified gaps into durable engineering fixes you design and ship

• Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows

• Focus on building and scaling services and user-facing web applications that are customer-centric, performant, and secure

What you bring

• Experience — 4+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices

• Hands-on execution — You can own a well-defined problem end to end and drive it to production without needing close