Farther is a rapidly growing RIA that combines expert advisors with cutting-edge technology - delivering a comprehensive, tailored wealth management experience.
Farther’s founders are leaders and innovators from the private wealth industry who possess a unique blend of traditional wealth management, fintech, and technology production expertise. We’re backed by top-tier venture capital firms, fintech investors, and industry leaders.
Joining Farther means joining a collaborative team of entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping their clients and our teammates achieve more. If you’re the type who breaks through walls to get things done the right way, we want to build the future of wealth management with you.
As a member of the Client and Advisor Product (CAP) team you’ll have full-stack ownership of multiple domains; spanning from the user interface to the data layer. The team’s responsibility includes client onboarding, opening financial accounts, helping with advisor organic growth, alternative marketplaces, and our integrated tasking system. This includes responsibility for all levels of a product, such as CRUD APIs, asynchronous RPC handlers, and AWS infrastructure. You will contribute to the development of new features and product improvements for our applications, which are built using React, TypeScript, Bun, and CockroachDB. You will also play a pivotal role in shaping and influencing new features at all stages, working closely with product, design, and other engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Be a product-focused software engineer, prioritizing the quick delivery of exceptional user experiences. Develop features that are well-balanced, avoiding both over- and under-engineering, with an emphasis on frequent and tidy releases.
- Leverage Typescript to create high-quality, strictly-typed code, that allows fearless refactoring. We are a strong proponent of functional programming and employ domain-driven design principles to develop modular code that is enjoyable to work with and easy to expand upon.
- Draft and review specification documents for new features. As a remote company, we take pride in producing detailed product requirement documents and functional specifications, enabling engineers to work quickly and autonomously once coding begins.
- Translate designs and wireframes into screens and components, collaborating closely with design and product teams to optimize for ease of development and rapid delivery.
- Develop backends for features, including domain modeling, data layer design, HTTP endpoint implementation, and handling asynchronous messaging.
- Build and maintain abstractions, patterns, and internal libraries, staying updated with changes and improvements in TypeScript, JavaScript, and our major libraries.
What we look for
- 7+ years of experience. You have experience building services/apps in production as a full-stack developer. Experience shipping a product from design files to users’ browsers.
- Investment or fintech adjacent experience. Previous production experience can include being part of a fintech or an investment advisory firm.
- Grit. You love shipping features and seeing the delight of users getting something new and have no problem staying late to ship a feature and get it into users’ hands.
- Bias for action. Enjoying a fast paced environment where you ship multiple times a day and focus on what’s best for the user. You have no problems pro-actively jumping into a Slack thread and helping the team debug an issue.
- Embrace of change. As a startup we often make calculated changes from dev ops changes to framework changes to language changes. While we put deep thought into changes, once accepted we move decisively and immediately. You embrace the startup chaos.
- Active communication. From a bias towards writing to keeping on top of Slack we expect active and pro-active communication throughout the day. As a remote team we have a strong writing/documentation culture as we communicate asynchronously by default; we think by writing.
- Ability to think in a functional way. A love for strict types because you love making invalid states impossible states. Love of static analysis; we use tools to help us work more efficiently like ESLint and Prettier. We don’t take DRY too seriously, love generics, yet don’t build ivory towers of abstractions.
What helps you stand out
- Startup experience. We move quickly and decisively and have a culture of shipping.
- Typescript experience. A strong TS background helps but we’re happy to train strong candidates in Typescript.
- Functional programming experience. You have a previous background in FP, FP languages, and FP patterns. This could include experience with Haskell, Elixir, Effect.js, Rambda.js and other similar languages or libraries.
Our Investments in You
- If you are NYC we are hybird, outside of NYC we are fully remote.
- Book clubs, seminars, and other peer-to-peer learning opportunities
- An amazing collaborative atmosphere between product, design, and engineering to solve hard problems together
- Everything you need to build the perfect dev station from hardware to software
- Great benefits including health, vision, and dental
- 401(k) matching
- We don’t use Jira!
Top Skills
What We Do
Farther is the leading technology-centric wealth management firm – combining expert advisors with cutting-edge technology to deliver an efficient, comprehensive, and elite client experience. Founded in 2019 and backed by top-tier venture capital firms, Farther caters to high-net-worth professionals who need a more holistic approach to managing their money.
For details on our disclosures, please reference the document linked on our website footer (farther.com).
