Senior Analytics Engineer
Palo Alto, CA
Engineering – Engineering - Data /
Full-time /
Remote
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, transformation, and validation of data that we learn from on our way to making our services even better.
• 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 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 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 (~250 employees, half in engineering), then we want to hear from you!
About this Role
- As a Wealthfront Analytics Engineer, you will help build and maintain the company’s core datasets and data workflows which yield automated confidence in our data. You will partner with stakeholders across the company such as Engineering, Data Science, Marketing, and Finance to deeply understand the details of the data that they produce and consume, and to understand and shape the specifics of their metrics and analyses.
- You’ll help improve the maintainability and stability of our data and code by fixing issues and adding necessary enhancements to our data pipelines and systems. You’ll be extremely vigilant and proactive about data quality and ensure that mission critical data pipelines and systems 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 pipelines and systems.
- Additionally, as a senior member of the team you’ll play a part in growing the team through mentorship and participating in recruiting activities
Education, Skills, and Experience:
- You have a BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.
- You have 5-10 years of experience designing and building metrics-focused deliverables within a data-driven, consumer-facing software company.
- Expert level SQL knowledge for manipulating data within MPP relational databases.
- Significant experience modeling and manipulating business data in a highly complex domain such as finance or logistics
- Deep knowledge of and experience with one or more high level programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala.
- Experienced in big data processing using distributed processing frameworks like Spark or Hadoop Map Reduce.
- Experience with one or more analytic reporting tools such as AWS Quicksight or Tableau.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Detail oriented, and strong in critical thinking, problem solving and analysis.
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 regular 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: $185,000 - $228,000 USD plus equity and a discretionary bonus.
Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K 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 business. 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 turn their savings into long-term wealth, including:
• A Cash Account that, through our partner 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.
• A zero-commission Stock Investing Account with 50+ handpicked collections that help DIY investors discover new companies and make smarter investing decisions.
• Multiple automated investing portfolios 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.
Our award-winning products have attracted over 1 million clients who trust us with more than $80 billion of their hard earned savings—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.
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Disclosures: 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 Cash Account is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“Wealthfront Brokerage”), Member of FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. We convey funds to partner banks who accept and maintain deposits, provide the variable interest rate, and provide access to FDIC pass-through insurance. Investment management and advisory services–which are not FDIC insured–are provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC (“Wealthfront Advisers”), an SEC-registered investment adviser. The checking features offered in the Wealthfront Cash Account are provided by Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC. Fees and Eligibility requirements may apply to certain checking features, please see the Deposit Account Agreement for details.
By “award-winning products”, please refer to www.wealthfront.com/reviews for more information. Wealthfront Corporation oversees Total Client Assets and Trusted Clients through Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage. Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage are wholly owned subsidiaries of Wealthfront Corporation.
