Senior Back End Engineer, Clearing

$158,000 - $203,000/Yr

Altruist - Los Angeles, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Los Angeles, CA

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Senior Back End Engineer will be a key member of the Clearing team at Altruist, focusing on streamlining operations and enhancing the wealth management experience through robust, scalable, and secure solutions. This role involves collaboration with engineering leaders, product teams, and other cross-functional groups to prioritize and deliver product requirements effectively.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Engineering Manager, leads, engineers, product and business teams.
• Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows.
• Focus on building and scaling systems.
• Deliver RESTful APIs with microservices.
• Integrate data from multiple custodians, aggregating, modeling, and loading the data into a transactional and warehouse system.
• Solve complex problems within an event-based environment.
• Work on complex calculations in a consistent and accurate manner.

Requirements

• Experience building scalable RESTful back-end services using Java and Spring Boot framework.
• Implemented microservices architecture for backend services to deliver highly distributed and resilient architecture.
• Strong understanding of design patterns and implementation of event-driven architecture.
• Experience with automated testing like unit/integration tests.
• Experience using Swagger for API documentation and SonarQube for code quality.
• Strong grasp over database technologies using SQL and NoSQL databases like Postgres, MySQL, HBase/Cassandra, Redis.
• Knowledge of Docker/Container technologies like Kubernetes or ECS.
• Experience with Python & Airflow.
• Experience building cloud infrastructure with Terraform on cloud technologies like AWS.
• Experience with Gitlab and building pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Authentication and Authorization principles.
• Familiarity with ELK stack for consistent logging, monitoring, and alerting.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong domain knowledge of Clearing or Brokerage platforms and financial services.

Benefits

• Hybrid work schedule to promote strong, in-person collaboration and a healthy work-life balance.
• Stunning, amenity-filled office spaces in Culver City, CA and Dallas, TX.
• Free parking and EV charging, cold-brew and kombucha on tap, a fully stocked pantry with snacks.
• Competitive salary and equity packages.
• Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• 401k savings plan with matching contributions and immediate vesting.
• Flexible PTO to satisfy passions outside of work.
• Generous paid parental leave.
• Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation for each employee.
• Physical and emotional wellness programs that nurture both mind and body.
• Company perks program including discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, entertainment and travel.
• Financial guidance program for navigating debt, tracking personal spend, saving and planning goals, home-purchasing preparedness.