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 the Senior Manager, Data Engineering at Farther, you will own the data platform powering a modern, technology-driven wealth management firm — the security master, custodial pipelines, and canonical financial models every downstream system depends on.
The platform is already in production. Your mandate is to take it much further: define the roadmap, own it end-to-end, and execute — growing the team and expanding what the platform makes possible across the firm, including the AI systems built on top of it.
Your Impact- Own and execute the data platform roadmap — from custodial ingestion through the security master to AI-ready data products
- Lead and grow the data engineering team, setting the bar for technical quality
- Own the firm's security master: reference data, corporate actions, and golden-source resolution across vendors
- Design canonical models unifying accounts, positions, and transactions across Schwab, Fidelity, Pershing, and other custodians
- Drive data quality, reconciliation, lineage, and governance across regulated datasets
- 8+ years in data platform roles, with 4+ years managing data teams
- Deep security master experience — instrument reference data, corporate actions, multi-vendor golden-source resolution
- Prior experience on the data team at a broker/dealer
- Exceptional data modeling skills — schemas that are correct, extensible, and built to last
- Strong hands-on expertise with PostgreSQL, AWS, and Python
- A builder's mindset — energized by scaling a strong foundation into something category-defining
- PostgreSQL, Python, SQL
- AWS (S3, Lambda, ECS Fargate, Glue, Athena, Step Functions)
- Parquet-based data lake, infrastructure-as-code (CDK), CI/CD-driven delivery
- AI/agent integrations built on the platform (Anthropic, AWS Bedrock)
- Experience running a global or distributed data team
- Bitemporal or point-in-time financial data modeling
- Data governance, lineage, and fine-grained access control
- Experience supporting AI/ML systems with production data products
- Learn & grow through book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions
- Competitive comp package that rewards impact
- Work alongside some of the brightest minds in fintech
- Ground-floor opportunity at a fast-scaling startup
- Chart your own growth path as we expand
- Full health benefits + 401(k) matching & Roth IRA options
- Unlimited PTO
- An amazing collaborative atmosphere between product, design, and engineering to solve hard problems together
Ready to disrupt wealth management? Let's talk!
Skills Required
- 8+ years in data platform roles
- 4+ years managing data teams
- Deep security master experience (instrument reference data, corporate actions, multi-vendor golden-source resolution)
- Prior experience on the data team at a broker/dealer
- Exceptional data modeling skills (schemas that are correct, extensible, and built to last)
- Strong hands-on expertise with PostgreSQL
- Strong hands-on expertise with AWS (S3, Lambda, ECS Fargate, Glue, Athena, Step Functions)
- Strong hands-on expertise with Python
- Design canonical models unifying accounts, positions, and transactions across custodians
- Drive data quality, reconciliation, lineage, and governance across regulated datasets
- Experience with Parquet-based data lake and CI/CD-driven delivery
- Infrastructure-as-code familiarity (CDK)
- Experience running a global or distributed data team
- Bitemporal or point-in-time financial data modeling
- Data governance, lineage, and fine-grained access control
- Experience supporting AI/ML systems with production data products (Anthropic, AWS Bedrock integrations)
Farther Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Farther and has not been reviewed or approved by Farther.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Advisor compensation includes a transparent, higher‑payout grid and equity participation that can deliver strong upside for producers. The design emphasizes meaningful rewards as production grows.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage via a major national carrier with multiple plan options, HSA/FSA contributions, and complimentary primary‑care access signal comprehensive healthcare support. Dental and vision coverage round out the core offering.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match that vests immediately, alongside traditional, Roth, and after‑tax options, enables advanced retirement saving strategies. Administration via Empower supports accessibility.
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What We Do
Farther is the intelligent wealth management firm that's redefining the industry by combining proprietary technology with expert financial advisor guidance. We're building a generational financial institution that empowers advisors to focus on what matters most - they're clients and growing their business - while our all-in-one platform handles the back-office complexity. Our comprehensive wealth management platform offers clients a unified view of their entire financial lives through a single login, while advisors gain access to advanced tools for building personalized, tax-optimized portfolios. We provide access to extensive public strategies and alternative investments, plus our own Farther Asset Management products alongside offerings from BlackRock, Vanguard, and Fidelity. Named the #1 fastest-growing financial services firm in America by Inc. Magazine with 11,968% revenue growth over three years, we've achieved over $13 billion in recruited assets and are backed by $118M in funding, including a Series C led by CapitalG (Google's growth fund). With 400+ employees across offices in New York, Dallas, and San Francisco, we're scaling rapidly while maintaining our commitment to innovation and excellence.
Why Work With Us
We're building a generational financial institution and a mission-driven team through our CARE values: Communication, Action, Respect, and Excellence. Named to Inc. Best Workplaces two years running, we offer comprehensive benefits like $0 health coverage, immediate 3% 401(k), unlimited PTO, and quarterly recognition programs.
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