Wealthfront is hiring a

Senior Data Engineer

Palo Alto, United States
Full-Time
Remote
Data is critical to Wealthfront’s success. For example, our data includes the financial details of our clients, which our products use to help our clients make the best financial decisions for themselves. Our data also includes the details of Wealthfront products and the business, which we use to make important company decisions. As a Wealthfront Data Engineer, you will help build and maintain the company’s core datasets. You will collaborate with stakeholders around the company, within Engineering, Product, Data Science, Marketing, Finance, etc. You will work with them to understand the details of the data that they produce and consume, and to understand and shape the specifics of their metrics and analyses. We value automation. You will invest in building systems which yield automated confidence in our data. As part of an agile team, you will prioritize the highest impact work and you will take ownership of the outcomes of the projects you work on. As a Data Engineer, you will:
  • Collaborate with and enable data scientists, analysts, product managers, and business functions by curating the datasets that they require.
  • Model the business data layer (normalized and denormalized) that will expose data in terms of business entities.
  • Design, build and deploy scalable and reliable data pipelines (using SQL and other languages) to move and transform data to create business entities.
  • Maintain a data catalog of business entities and their attributes to help others understand data semantics.
  • Be extremely vigilant and proactive about data quality. Data quality as measured by axes like completeness, consistency, and timeliness should be of paramount importance to you and you should be quantitative in your focus on it.
  • Manage reporting and dashboarding tools being used by colleagues across the company to transform data into meaningful insights.
  • Help define and maintain company wide metrics and deploy them with data quality checks.
  • Build a new best-of-breed data access layer on top of the data platform (Presto/Athena, S3, Redshift) to expose data to all stakeholders.
  • Become a subject matter expert in various areas of Wealthfront data, including within domains such as clickstream, product usage, and client financials.
  • Work within a team of Data Engineers working together to deliver timely, high quality implementations within the company’s scrum process.
  • Education, Skills, and Experience:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Experience with product and marketing data tools such as Amplitude, Iterable, or Braze will be valuable.
  • You exhibit all the professional qualities that make you a great Data Engineer: analytic, great communicator, collaborative, detail oriented, etc.
  • You have a BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.
  • 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.  

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