Principal Backend Infrastructure Engineer – TypeScript

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 150 - 300

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

About Titan

Titan is an award-winning wealth manager with a mission to increase our generations compound growth rate. We plan to do this by putting a human wealth advisor in every pocket. Historically wealth managers have been accessible to only the ultra-wealthy. With Titan theyre available to everyone. We harness frontier technologies like artificial intelligence to build a platform that gives advisors superpowers enabling them to serve clients they historically never could. Backed by a16z General Catalyst Sam Altman and many others we manage over $1 billion in assets for clients across the country.

Why Join Titan

For the right person we believe Titan will be one of the most rewarding jobs they ever have.

Ambitious Vision: When we put private wealth management in every pocket well make a legacy-defining impact in growing our generations wealth to new heights.
Critical Why Now: The advent of LLMs unlocks our vision to democratize personalized wealth management for everyone. This drives our urgency every day.
Disproportionate Impact: Were still at the beginning of our journey with a small team which means your impact at Titan will disproportionately matter.
Vibrant In-Person Culture: We thrive on being a high-touch team working together in the trenches in person (youll see our founders in office every day).
Compensation: Titan offers competitive cash compensation and well-above-market equity packages because we want every team member to be an owner.
World-Class Investors: Were backed by top investors who share our bold vision including a16z General Catalyst Y Combinator and Sam Altman.

Role Overview

Titan engineers are building the systems to power a next-generation RIA prepared to scale well beyond our $1B AUM. Working alongside former founders Google & Meta Engineers We are seeking a Principal Backend / Infrastructure Engineer to help architect build and scale the core systems that power our financial platform. Youll work on our backend services trading systems real-time APIs data pipelines automated workflows and infrastructure in ways that are secure scalable and resilient. This is a high-impact role where your technical decisions will directly affect platform reliability and performance at scale.

Core Responsibilities

Design build and maintain backend services and APIs using and TypeScript.
Improve and extend the infrastructure that enables trading account management transaction processing and portfolio automation.
Ensure high availability performance and security across backend systems powering millions of daily operations.
Build and enhance internal tools data pipelines and system integrations.
Extend our devOps/infrastructure to shape CI/CD deployment automation observability monitoring and incident response.
Champion best practices for code quality system design testing and documentation.
Mentor junior engineers and drive architectural initiatives across the backend domain.

Qualifications

6 years of professional experience building backend systems in TypeScript or comparable languages ( preferred).
Strong backend fundamentals: APIs microservices distributed systems data stores caching messaging systems.
Experience with database design (SQL & NoSQL) scaling patterns performance optimization and observability.
Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure) and infrastructure as code.
Solid understanding of security practices for backend systems (authentication authorization data protection).
Strong analytical problem-solving and communication skills.
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced collaborative environment.

What Makes You Stand Out

Experience building financial or real-time services.
Familiarity with automated portfolio trading or financial data systems.
Previous ownership of backend infrastructure or mission-critical systems.
Experience scaling apps used by tens of thousands of users with high throughput.

Required Experience:

Staff IC

About TitanTitan is an award-winning wealth manager with a mission to increase our generations compound growth rate. We plan to do this by putting a human wealth advisor in every pocket. Historically wealth managers have been accessible to only the ultra-wealthy. With Titan theyre available to every...