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.
We're looking for a Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure (SETI) to help build the systems that keep our TypeScript codebase fast to test, easy to trust, and safe to ship. You'll focus on designing tools, frameworks, and pipelines that elevate the productivity and confidence of engineers working across both frontend and backend systems. You'll build infrastructure that scales with our growing team, promotes engineering best practices, and catches problems before they reach production. You'll work closely with engineering teams across the organization to ensure our testing ecosystem supports rapid development while maintaining the high reliability and security standards required in financial services.
Your Impact- Design, build, and maintain robust tooling and testing infrastructure to support engineering workflows across our frontend and backend systems. Create comprehensive automation frameworks for unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, leveraging tools like Jest, Playwright, Vitest, and Cypress
- Build intelligent CI/CD pipelines that run tests efficiently through advanced techniques like file-change tracking, smart test selection, and parallelization strategies
- Develop sophisticated utilities for mocking APIs, stubbing external services, and spinning up isolated testing environments that mirror production conditions
- Monitor test reliability and performance metrics to continuously drive improvements in feedback speed and signal quality across all engineering teams
- Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure code is testable, traceable, and properly instrumented to build confidence in our deployments
- Create comprehensive documentation and onboard teams to best practices in test architecture and optimized developer workflows
- Drive key technical decisions for testing infrastructure that supports our critical trading systems and portfolio management platform
- Establish testing standards and architectural patterns that enable rapid, confident product development across all our wealth management offerings
- Partner with backend teams to build reusable test fixtures and data factories for complex financial workflows and regulatory scenarios
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on testing infrastructure, developer tooling, or platform engineering
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and modern testing frameworks (Jest, Vitest, Cypress, Playwright)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (CDK, Datadog, Terraform, or similar)
- Solid understanding of test automation patterns, mocking strategies, and test environment management
- AWS Infra & Deployment experience
- Experience with containerization and orchestration for test environments
- Knowledge of database testing strategies and test data management
- Strong foundation in software engineering principles and system design
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools for test infrastructure
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex testing issues
- Strong written communication skills and documentation practices
- Experience with financial services or regulated industry testing requirements
- Knowledge of property-based testing and fuzzing techniques
- Experience with distributed testing and load testing frameworks
- Familiarity with Scala or Python testing ecosystems
- Background in building developer productivity tools
- Experience with test reporting and analytics platforms
- Knowledge of security testing and compliance validation
- Everything you need to build the perfect dev station from hardware to software
- Learn & grow through book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions
- 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
Skills Required
- 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on testing infrastructure, developer tooling, or platform engineering
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript
- Experience with modern testing frameworks: Jest, Vitest, Cypress, Playwright
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (CDK, Terraform, Datadog, or similar)
- AWS infrastructure and deployment experience
- Experience with containerization and orchestration for test environments
- Solid understanding of test automation patterns, mocking strategies, and test environment management
- Knowledge of database testing strategies and test data management
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools for test infrastructure
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging skills, and strong written communication/documentation practices
- Experience with financial services or regulated industry testing requirements
- Knowledge of property-based testing and fuzzing techniques
- Experience with distributed testing and load testing frameworks
- Familiarity with Scala or Python testing ecosystems
- Background building developer productivity tools or test reporting/analytics platforms
- Knowledge of security testing and compliance validation
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.
Farther Insights
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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