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What they do

Wealthfront builds low-cost financial products that people use to grow and manage their money. It offers a Cash Account through partner banks, a Stock Investing Account with no trade fees, and automated investing portfolios. It also does home lending. Over 1 million clients trust it with more than $100 billion. It has about 350 employees, and half are in engineering.

What they value

• Build a financial system that favors people, not institutions.
• Keep it simple, with no jargon and no sales people who upsell.
• Treat software as the superpower: automation, data, and human-centered design.
• Be honest and straightforward, because trust is a must-have.
• Welcome people without a finance background who care about the financial lives of others.
• Automate repetitive work and all testing instead of doing them by hand.

Where they hire

All 23 Postings are in the United States. The base is Palo Alto, and many roles also list San Francisco, New York City, and Seattle. Engineering roles are hybrid in the office. Twelve roles, such as home lending, compliance, and some marketing, take US-based remote work. No Posting mentions visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

• Engineering: backend, frontend, iOS, Android, DevOps platform (tools to build and ship software), and network engineers, and an engineering manager. Engineers build the system and also run it in production, with on-call duty.
• Home lending: five mortgage operations roles, such as loan processor, loan closer, and licensed loan partner.
• Data science: a senior data scientist for home lending and a lead economist who writes about economic data.
• Marketing and content: product marketing, strategic partnerships, a creative designer, and a writer for the Vested Interest newsletter.
• Also product management, compliance (anti-money laundering), client services, payroll, and people operations.

What they look for

Most engineering Postings ask for 2 to 6 years of experience and a BS or MS in computer science or a related field. Backend roles want Java or a similar language, SQL, and some knowledge of distributed systems. Frontend roles want JavaScript and a modern framework such as React. iOS roles want Swift and UIKit or SwiftUI, Apple's app-screen toolkits. Engineering Postings expect engineers to write automated tests, and several say manual testing is not part of their process. The frontend and backend roles ask for test-driven development (writing tests before code). Mortgage roles ask for a Mortgage Loan Originator License (the US license to arrange home loans) or deep knowledge of lending rules. The data science roles ask for Python and SQL, and the senior role asks for a Master's or PhD and 6+ years. Several Postings ask for interest in using technology to improve business processes. New hires get a mentor and a structured onboarding program.