Backend Engineer

Palo Alto, CA March 7, 2026 Full Time Lever
*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 (~250 employees, half in engineering), then we want to hear from you! 
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How to Get Hired at Wealthfront

  • Wealthfront is a ~250-person, profitable, privately held fintech headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, with David Fortunato as CEO and a single-headquarters operating model.
  • The UBS acquisition was terminated in 2022; Wealthfront stayed independent, took a $69.7M convertible note as bridge capital, and pivoted to standalone profitability rather than seeking another buyer.
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