Jobs at Altruist

Build and improve resilient, scalable backend systems as part of the Platform team. Responsibilities include implementing observability with OpenTelemetry, defining SLOs, owning incident response processes and follow-ups, mentoring teams on secure and reliable coding, and applying automated testing. The role involves working with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD while collaborating with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams.

Lead the strategy and roadmap for Altruist’s portfolio reporting experience. Translate complex financial, market, and portfolio data into accurate, actionable insights for advisors and clients. Conduct product discovery, prioritize the backlog, define requirements, partner with Engineering and Design, evaluate data and vendor dependencies, and collaborate with Compliance, Customer Success, Market Data, and Marketing. Monitor product health and customer outcomes while operating in a regulated financial environment.

Own the roadmap and delivery of enterprise product areas supporting onboarding, firm setup, permissions, branding, billing, and complex organizational workflows. Partner with enterprise customers, engineering, design, and sales to identify needs, simplify operations, ship high-quality releases, and drive measurable outcomes. The role requires strong product judgment, technical aptitude, customer discovery skills, and experience building complex B2B2C or multi-sided software products for enterprise organizations.

Build and scale secure, reliable backend services and web applications. Develop identity and access management features, improve AWS infrastructure and database performance, harden APIs and distributed systems, and contribute to incident response and observability. Own engineering problems from design through production, partner with security teams on remediation, mentor engineers, and solve complex workflow and scalability challenges.

Develop and scale resilient backend services and shared platform tooling using Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, AWS, and Kubernetes. Design distributed systems, implement REST APIs, improve security and reliability, apply automated testing, and collaborate with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams. The role also includes mentoring teams, contributing to cloud infrastructure, and delivering scalable solutions for financial services platforms.

Own multi-region AWS network architecture, segmentation, partner connectivity, zero-trust access, observability, disaster recovery, and office networking. Build infrastructure as code with Terraform and GitOps, collaborate with Security on regulated-industry requirements, lead incident escalation, apply AI-native operational workflows, establish standards, review designs, and mentor engineers.

Lead the architecture, deployment, and operation of AWS cloud infrastructure supporting regulated financial services. Own Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD, observability, disaster recovery, networking, security, cost optimization, and AI/ML infrastructure strategies. Establish technical standards, lead cross-functional initiatives, handle critical incident escalations, mentor engineers, and advise leadership on infrastructure investments and reliability.

Own quality for distributed backend platform services across API, contract, event, and database layers. Build Java-based test automation, validate service contracts and data, test asynchronous workflows and security paths, detect configuration drift, and integrate suites into GitLab CI/CD. Partner with platform engineers to build testability into services, manage defects in Jira, assess regression scope, and champion continuous quality improvement.

Lead backend engineering initiatives focused on secure, scalable, and reliable distributed systems. Design identity and access management capabilities, strengthen AWS infrastructure, optimize high-volume databases, harden APIs, improve observability, and drive incident remediation. Mentor engineers, own cross-service problems end to end, collaborate with security leadership, and build performant customer-facing applications.

Own the architecture, security, segmentation, connectivity, and operations of a multi-region AWS network supporting regulated financial-services platforms. Lead cloud routing, partner VPN and Direct Connect connectivity, zero-trust access, Terraform-based infrastructure, observability, disaster recovery, and incident escalation. Partner with Security on compliance-driven designs, apply AI-native operational workflows, establish standards, and mentor engineers.

Build and maintain high-fidelity security detections across SIEM, cloud, endpoints, and identity systems. Investigate alerts, lead incident response, threat-hunt for sophisticated and insider threats, operationalize threat intelligence, develop SOAR playbooks, improve logging, and measure detection effectiveness against MITRE ATT&CK. The role also partners with MDR and incident response providers and conducts purple-team exercises.

Leads the Cloud Infrastructure and Platform team, managing engineers while setting roadmap and architecture for AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include Kubernetes and Terraform platforms, disaster recovery, CI/CD, supply-chain security, observability, incident response, developer self-service, cloud cost management, regulatory audits, and engineering mentorship.

Owns the reliability, performance, resilience, and cost of a multi-terabyte Aurora PostgreSQL estate. Leads multi-region disaster recovery, database segmentation, scaling architecture, upgrades, replication and change-data-capture systems, schema governance, observability, security controls, incident response, automation, and engineering mentorship. Partners across platform, data, security, and product teams while setting technical direction and delivering multi-quarter database programs.

Own platform reliability, performance, observability, and resilience for scalable backend systems. Mentor engineering teams on secure, performant coding practices; establish OpenTelemetry observability and service-level objectives; design and improve incident response processes; and implement automated testing. Collaborate with engineering leaders, product managers, and cross-functional teams on shared infrastructure and challenging technical solutions. The role also contributes to cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, tabletop exercises, and modern distributed systems across the organization.

Design, build, and scale resilient RESTful backend services and shared platform tooling using Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, AWS, and Kubernetes. Develop distributed microservice architectures, implement automated testing, promote secure coding practices, and mentor engineering teams. Collaborate with engineering leadership, product managers, and cross-functional partners while independently delivering high-impact platform solutions.

Own end-to-end onboarding for complex enterprise wealth-management firms, from Sales handoff through operational readiness, training, and long-term support handoff. Translate firm structures, technology, and operating models into tailored transition plans; manage risks, milestones, stakeholders, and executive communication. Establish enterprise onboarding playbooks and standards, develop scalable approaches for varied firm types, improve workflows, coordinate with Operations and internal teams, and report volume, pacing, capacity, and risks to leadership.

Serve as a product- and operations-oriented advisor support rep resolving complex issues across account opening, funding, trading, billing, reporting, and maintenance. Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, and compliance to troubleshoot defects, tag feedback, maintain documentation, and deliver empathetic, high-quality advisor support while developing subject-matter expertise.

The Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will architect, build, and operate AWS infrastructure, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability while leading technical initiatives and mentoring others.

Lead end-to-end quality for a user-facing fintech platform, owning UI, API, and data-layer testing. Perform exploratory manual testing, build and maintain Java-based automation (Playwright/Selenium, REST Assured/Postman), integrate tests into CI/CD, design test plans for AI features, manage defects in Jira, and drive continuous improvement in testing strategy and execution across cross-functional teams.

Own end-to-end onboarding of advisory firms from post-sale through launch: run discovery, build and manage implementation plans, lead training, coordinate cross-functional teams, track transition health across core areas (account opening, funding, trading, billing, reporting), and iterate playbooks to reduce friction and accelerate time-to-value.