Senior Typescript Full-stack FIT Engineer

Job Description

Farther’s Product, Design, and Engineering team is a remote (only in US) wealth-tech firm backed by top tier VCs including Lightspeed, Bessemer, and Khosla. We’ve had 4x year-over-year growth to over $3 billion assets under management in just under 4 years. We continue to scale quickly both in growth and product features as we assist individuals and families in growing their wealth and achieving financial security.

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 fully 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 investment adjacent experience. Previous production experience can include being part of a trading team, working at a fintech, or being part of a 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

• 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!