Staff Back End Engineer, Hazel AI

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About Altruist</strong></span></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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!</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>But first, our values</strong></span></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>Kindness</strong>

Kindness doesn't <em>just</em> equal niceness. We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. The listing location is San Francisco, CA.

Key facts

What you'll do

• <div class="content-intro"><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About Altruist</strong></span></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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!</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>But first, our values</strong></span></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>Kindness</strong>
• Kindness doesn't <em>just</em> equal niceness.
• We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives.
• We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.<br><br><strong>Brilliance</strong>
• 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; regularly using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team.
• We succeed and fail as one.<br><br><strong>Grit</strong>
• 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.</p></div><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About Hazel</strong></span></span></p> <p>Hazel is building the AI engine for wealth management that helps unlock 10x growth, efficiency and value for financial advisors and their clients in a regulated industry.

Requirements

• Title can be flexible depending on experience. </p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Your impact</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices, helping to mentor other engineers and develop impactful solutions.</li> <li>Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows</li> <li>Focus on building and scaling services and user facing web applications</li> <li>Build customer centric scalable and performant AI-driven applications and features</li> <li>Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and ELT processes</li> <li>Build new data integrations based on established requirements </li> <li>Perform data analysis to investigate and resolve data issues</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>What you bring</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><strong>Experience</strong> - 8+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices</li> <ul> <li>Experience with Generative AI frameworks and tools (RAG, Langchain, Vector database and other emerging agentic frameworks).</li> <li>Prior experience delivering impactful Gen-AI products in production.</li> <li>Familiarity with AI/ML use cases such as content generation, summarization or natural language processing(NLP).</li> <li>Familiarity with integrating third-party AI APIs and services using platforms like OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Anthropic.</li> </ul> <li><strong>Education</strong>
• Ideally looking for a B.A.
• degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or similar Engineering/Mathematics degrees</li> <li><strong>Technical aptitude</strong>
• You're technologically savvy and ca

About Altruist

Altruist builds the AI-forward wealth platform and custodian that ties account opening, trading, portfolio management, billing, and reporting into one workflow. The system handles order routing, settlement, and compliance while providing dashboards and reporting views.

Teams work with standardized APIs and event streams to connect research, risk, and investor experiences. The environment supports iterative product changes and clear configuration options.

Software engineering work usually means turning product intent into systems that run in production. Engineers write and review code, break large changes into reviewable pieces, and watch how those changes behave after they ship. Most teams share on-call or incident habits so outages get a clear owner. Collaboration with product and design is part of the job, not an extra. The duties above are the ones this listing actually states for this opening.