Senior Backend Engineer, TIFIN Wealth

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

A TIFIN Division, TIFIN Wealth is a collection of personalization capabilities powered by AI and investment intelligence that allow advisors, wealth managers, and other intermediaries to deliver better individual outcomes.

We are in growth mode and are seeking an individual who will thrive in a get-it-done environment and can adapt to new demands with a strong sense of urgency and precision. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will join a passionate product, design, and development team building innovative yet easy-to-use products to achieve our mission of building engaging wealth experience to improve financial wellbeing. Working alongside Product, Data Science, Design, and Frontend engineers, you will bring new products and features to life. We currently use Python Django and Node.js-based services and our applications are deployed to AWS and GCP., An expertise in those technologies, or a strong interest in working with them, is essential for this position. 

You must be a motivated and tenacious self-starter who is comfortable interpreting technology requirements based on product requirements and implementing them with maximum impact on the users. You will be expected to develop technology that minimizes technical debt while maximizing the customer experience. You are expected to work with a geographically distributed team.

THE ROLE:

• Participate in architectural, design, and product sessions and be a crucial part of the decision-making process on overall technology direction
• Work closely with Product, Design, and other Devs to build customer-facing features
• Integrate with a wide array of tools and services via API
• Jointly own and champion the backend architecture and engineer complete solutions to problems
• Collaborate with the Product and Design teams to realize the product vision and provide valuable feedback on the scope and viability given constraints of time, performance, and device capabilities
• Build, deploy and maintain RESTful and GraphQL APIs and their communication with the down-stream systems
• Bring DevOps knowledge to participate in designing our network architecture and tooling used for integration and deployment
• Work hands-on to realize the deployment architecture, setup and maintain integration and deployment
• Provide our users with an overall experience with high quality, scalability and robustness
• Troubleshoot and fix product issues
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Help shape engineering  and company culture 

WHO YOU ARE:

• 7+ years of product development experience, with at least 5 years of Python Django and Node.js experience
• Experience with data analysis packages like Pandas
• Experience developing highly scalable backend microservices
• Experience building back-end RESTful or GraphQL web services and deploying web APIs and applications to AWS and/or GCP
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices
• Solid general software architecture, programming, and debugging skills
• A high degree of comfort working with front-end engineers and designers
• Experience with performance-oriented software development, including performance analysis, scaling, and tuning
• Ability to thrive in a highly demanding, entrepreneurial, and fast-paced environment (we run  weekly sprints)
• A top performer with a proactive approach who has a “doer” & problem-solver mentality 
• An exceptional team player with strong communication skills
• Exposure to PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Experience with Application security best practices
• Experience with Fintech, Wealth Management or Commercial Software Development.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS PACKAGE:

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $130,000 - $180,000. Applicable salary ranges may differ across markets. Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. The position is also eligible for incentive compensation as well as client acquisition bonus programs.