What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Backend Engineer position at Farther LLC?
Company Description
Farther is a rapidly growing RIA that combines expert advisors with cutting-edge technology - delivering a comprehensive, tailored wealth management experience.
Farther's founders are leaders and innovators from the private wealth industry who possess a unique blend of traditional wealth management, fintech, and technology production expertise. We're backed by top-tier venture capital firms, fintech investors, and industry leaders.
Joining Farther means joining a collaborative team of entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping their clients and our teammates achieve more. If you're the type who breaks through walls to get things done the right way, we want to build the future of wealth management with you.
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Farther, you'll be part of our core backend engineering team, building the foundational services and infrastructure that power all our product offerings. You'll work with modern technologies like TypeScript, Bun, and CockroachDB to create scalable, reliable services that support everything from client onboarding to portfolio management. You'll help design and implement the architectural patterns that enable rapid product development across all our offerings while maintaining the high reliability and security standards required in financial services. Senior Engineers have the opportunity to take on technical leadership of key projects while remaining hands-on with development.
Your Impact
- Design and implement core backend services that support multiple product areas, from user authentication to financial transactions
- Lead technical implementation of major features and provide architectural guidance
- Build scalable API layers that serve both our client-facing applications and internal tools
- Develop shared libraries and utilities that standardize common operations across our platform
- Create efficient data models and database schemas that support our entire product ecosystem
- Drive technical decisions for critical infrastructure, including trading systems and portfolio management platform
- Guide implementation of backend development standards and best practices
- Mentor engineers through code reviews and architectural discussions
- Work closely with the frontend team to design APIs that enable efficient client-side development
- Provide technical leadership in cross-team engineering initiatives
The Ideal Match
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Why Join Us
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