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About Altruist

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!

Our Values

Kindness

• Kindness doesn't just equal niceness. We listen to understand, embrace healthy debate and diverse perspectives, and 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, using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team, and 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.

Opportunity

We're looking for an AI-native Senior Software Engineer who combines creative thinking with business acumen. You'll design and build scalable data pipelines and data serving platforms while proactively identifying opportunities to create intelligent systems that help financial advisors deliver exceptional client service. This is a hybrid role with an expectation of being in the office three days each week out of our San Francisco office.

Your Impact

Design and build high performance data pipelines to manage the full lifecycle of financial data.

Design and build a service-oriented architecture that delivers data reliably and scales seamlessly across systems.

Create the foundational frameworks and platforms that establish AI as a core capability within the company.

Advocate for and demonstrate the effective use of AI throughout the software development lifecycle.

Ensure data integrity and quality across multiple sources.

Optimize query performance and troubleshoot data issues.

What You Bring

Experience

4+ years of software engineering experience.

Familiarity with one or more object oriented programming languages, Python or Java preferred.

Experience building applications on top of database systems and working with data warehouses and ETL pipelines.

Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, especially AWS and Kubernetes.

Proficiency in using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) as part of the software development workflow.

4-8 years of experience working with data pipelines and service oriented architecture, ideally at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization.

Building data pipelines and optimizing for performance and cost.

Working with mature data processes at scale in a large company.

Prior Experience (preferred)

Data Warehouse such as Snowflake.

Data Orchestration tools such as Airflow.

Data transformation and modeling tools such as dbt.

Education

• B.A. / B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Ownership

– The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable.

Superb communication

– Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others.

Resilience

– We're inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along the way.

Assurance

– Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego-less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives.

Creative problem solving

– Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You're instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks.

Salary Range

– $170,000–$226,000 USD (San Francisco, CA)

What We Bring

A hybrid work schedule for most positions to promote strong, in-person collaboration and a healthy work-life balance.

Stunning, amenity-filled office spaces in Culver City, CA, San Francisco, CA, and Dallas, TX.

Competitive pay and equity for eligible positions.

Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans (HMO and PPO).

401k savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting.

16 week paid parental leave.

Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation for each employee.

Company perks program (includes discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, entertainment and travel).

Financial guidance program (includes counseling on navigating debt, tracking personal spend, saving and planning goals, home-purchasing preparedness).

One month work from anywhere policy (with the exception of a few countries).

We are committed to providing fair, equitable, and competitive compensation by leveraging market data to inform our pay bands. Base salaries will be reviewed at regular intervals throughout the year, typically in conjunction with performance review cycles, to reward high performance and ensure all employees have opportunities for growth.

At Altruist we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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