About Altruist 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. 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! But first, our values Kindness - Kindness doesn’t just equal niceness. We listen to understand.

We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully. Brilliance - 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. Grit - 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. About Hazel 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. Since its launch last September, Hazel has organically and rapidly grown its user base.

Hazel is a part of Altruist’s broader mission to make financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. This role is hybrid, with four in-office days per week at our San Francisco FiDi location. The opportunity Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we’re excited to hire a Staff Back End Engineer focused on building innovative Generative AI products for Altruist’s advisors in the newly formed AI Labs team.

Title can be flexible depending on experience. Your impact Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices, helping to mentor other engineers and develop impactful solutions.

Requirements

Perform data analysis to investigate and resolve data issues What you bring Experience - 8+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices Experience with Generative AI frameworks and tools (RAG, Langchain, Vector database and other emerging agentic frameworks). Prior experience delivering impactful Gen-AI products in production. Familiarity with AI/ML use cases such as content generation, summarization or natural language processing(NLP).

Familiarity with integrating third-party AI APIs and services using platforms like OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Anthropic. A. S.

degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or similar Engineering/Mathematics degrees Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (we use Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes) Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable Superb communication - intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others. Resilience - We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along way Assurance - Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego-less.

You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives.

Staff Back End Engineer, Hazel AI