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*This role supports hybrid in-office US-based work in San Francisco - Bay Area, New York, and Seattle. About Wealthfront Engineering Wealthfront’s culture centers around continuous learning, innovation, and quality-driven software development. With high quality software as our ultimate engineering objective, our key tactic is automation: • Wealthfront software automates the financial services we provide to our clients, and within these services we automate the collection of data that we learn from on our way to making our services even better. • Wealthfront engineers function as builder/operators, with dual responsibility for building the system and operating it in production. Any toil that this brings about is automated away by engineers. This investment in automation is expected, and the prioritization of it is always built into our planning and execution. • Wealthfront engineers automate our development processes. For example, Wealthfront engineers automate all of our testing. Manual testing is not part of the software development lifecycle at Wealthfront. • Wealthfront engineers automate observability in case of failure. If something is up, our systems inform engineers appropriately. If our systems are quiet, they are healthy. If you are drawn to being an engineer within such an environment, and having outsized impact as an engineer at a magnitude that is only available within a company achieving greatness at our size (~350 employees, half in engineering), then we want to hear from you! About the Role We are looking for backend engineers to join our core product development teams. You’ll work with other engineers to design and build new features or enhance existing features. This work will add capabilities to the various backend systems and services that support Wealthfront’s products, and will be done with automated instrumentation and monitoring to require minimal operational maintenance. You’ll help improve the maintainability and stability of our codebase by fixing issues and adding necessary enhancements to our existing backend systems. You’ll 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. You’ll proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems. Additionally, you might play a part in evolving the engineering organization by participating in recruiting activities such as interviewing and attending career fairs and providing mentorship to other engineers on the team. About You You have 2-6 years of experience in developing backend components, services or APIs in Java or a similar language. You demonstrate knowledge and understanding of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms. You have knowledge of SQL and experience working with online data stores (ideally something like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server but NoSQL is okay). You have passion for agile, test-driven development, continuous integration and automated testing. You also have a passion for working on platforms and backend systems that have measurable business impact and like working in a fast paced cross functional environment. While not required, experience working with Spark pipelines is a plus along with knowledge of an ORM technology such as Hibernate. Another plus is working with a dependency injection framework (one of Guice, Spring, Pico, Dagger). You have either a BS or MS in computer science or related field. Once you join, Wealthfront will: Pair you with a mentor who will guide you through our structured onboarding program Encourage you to work on projects that match your professional goals Support your professional development by providing feedback during weekly 1:1s and our semi-annual reviews Provide you autonomy so you can be a happy and successful member of our team Estimated annual salary range: $150,000 - $189,000 plus generous equity and a discretionary bonus. Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K matching, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more! About Wealthfront Here at Wealthfront, our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions. We do this by leveraging technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products that help modern investors grow and manage their money. We started with the ambition to transform the investment advisory industry when we pioneered automated investing in 2011. By automating strategies typically reserved for the wealthy, we unlocked access to high quality investment advice for a digitally-native generation that was underserved by traditional institutions. Since then, we've expanded to a full suite of products designed to help our clients save, spend, invest, and borrow for all of their goals, including: •A Cash Account that, through our program banks, offers one of the highest annual percentage yields on uninvested cash in the industry, while providing instant and secure access to your money with no account fees and a full suite of checking features. • Multiple automated investing portfolios managed for you and tailored for long-term wealth building across various financial needs, including general investing, retirement, family wealth management, and more. Our taxable investing accounts are designed to unlock tax savings through sophisticated strategies like fixed income, tax-loss harvesting, and direct indexing—which we offer at industry-leading low costs and accessible minimums. • A zero-commission Brokerage Account with 8000+ stocks and ETFs that’s designed to give DIY investors an incredibly easy way to get started investing. Plus, with our Cash Account, they can earn a high yield (from program banks) until the minute they’re ready to invest. • A digital-first mortgage experience designed to reduce costs, remove unnecessary friction, and aim to offer rates consistently below the national average. Our award-winning products have attracted over 1.5 million funded clients who trust us with more than $100 billion of their hard earned savings on our platform—and we're far from done. If you’re inspired to help us reshape the financial industry as we create our next chapter, let’s talk! For more information please visit www.wealthfront.com .We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Please review our candidate privacy notice . Disclosures: The Cash Account, which is not a deposit account, is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC ("Wealthfront Brokerage"), Member FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. References to the APY for the Cash Account are to the APY paid by insured depository institutions that participate in our Cash Sweep Program (the "Program Banks”). Wealthfront Brokerage sweeps cash balances to Program Banks, where it earns the variable APY. Wealthfront Brokerage partners with Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC, to offer certain checking features for the Cash Account. Wealthfront Brokerage also has a relationship with UMB Bank, National Association, Member FDIC, which may allow certain Cash Accounts to opt into a limited-purpose account number and UMB Bank routing and transit number which enables checking features like bill pay, direct deposits and more. Wealthfront Brokerage and Wealthfront Advisers are not affiliated with Green Dot Bank or UMB Bank. Fees and Eligibility requirements may apply to certain checking features, please see the Deposit Account Agreement for details. All investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Tax-Loss Harvesting benefits vary depending on the client's entire tax and investment profile. Wealthfront doesn’t provide tax advice. The Brokerage Account is a self-directed brokerage account offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC, Member of FINRA/SIPC. Clients are responsible for evaluating their investment opportunities and risks and making investment decisions. Investment management and advisory services–which are not FDIC insured–are provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC (“Wealthfront Advisers”), an SEC-registered investment adviser. By “award-winning products”, please refer to wealthfront.com for more information. References to “Total Platform Assets” and “Funded Clients” include clients with assets in products offered by both Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage. These figures are as of August 31, 2026. Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage are wholly owned subsidiaries of Wealthfront Corporation.

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You have either a BS or MS in computer science or related field.
Pair you with a mentor who will guide you through our structured onboarding program
Encourage you to work on projects that match your professional goals
Support your professional development by providing feedback during weekly 1:1s and our semi-annual reviews
Provide you autonomy so you can be a happy and successful member of our team

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