Altruist Senior Back End Engineer at Altruist to lead engineering best practices and build scalable, secure backend services. Focus on identity and access management, AWS infrastructure, and production reliability.
Responsibilities
Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we're excited to hire Senior Back End Engineers to join our growing Engineering organization. We have multiple teams hiring for high impact & high visibility projects, with a particular focus on the security, scalability, and reliability of the platform our clients trust with their assets. Our recruitment team will work with you to match you to the right opportunity to help you grow your career at Altruist. This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of being in the office three days each week out of our San Francisco FiDi office.
Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices, helping to mentor other engineers and develop impactful solutions
Independently take a defined problem from design through implementation and into production
Build and extend identity and access management capabilities: authentication, authorization, RBAC, and OAuth/OIDC flows
Implement improvements to our AWS and cloud infrastructure, including its security posture, configuration, and operational guardrails
Improve database performance, security, and optimization across high-volume, transactional systems
Harden APIs, services, and distributed systems against failure and abuse
Contribute to production reliability: participate in incident response and remediation, fix root causes, and add the observability needed to catch issues early
Partner with our Security/CISO team to turn identified gaps into durable engineering fixes you design and ship
Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows
Focus on building and scaling services and user-facing web applications that are customer-centric, performant, and secure
Experience — 4+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices
