Staff Back End Engineer, Hazel AI

Hazel is building the AI engine for wealth management that helps unlock 10x growth, efficiency and value for financial advisors and their clients in a regulated industry. Since its launch last September, Hazel has organically and rapidly grown its user base.

Hazel is a part of Altruist's broader mission to make financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all.

This role is hybrid, with four in-office days per week at our San Francisco FiDi location.

Altruist is in the midst of an exceptional growth phase and we're excited to hire a Staff Back End Engineer focused on building innovative Generative AI products for Altruist's advisors in the newly formed AI Labs team. Title can be flexible depending on experience.

- Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices, helping to mentor other engineers and develop impactful solutions.

- Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows

- Focus on building and scaling services and user facing web applications

- Build customer centric scalable and performant AI-driven applications and features

- Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and ELT processes

- Build new data integrations based on established requirements

- Perform data analysis to investigate and resolve data issues

- Experience - 8+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices

- Experience with Generative AI frameworks and tools (RAG, Langchain, Vector database and other emerging agentic frameworks).

- Prior experience delivering impactful Gen-AI products in production.

- Familiarity with AI/ML use cases such as content generation, summarization or natural language processing(NLP).

- Familiarity with integrating third-party AI APIs and services using platforms like OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Anthropic.

- Education - Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or similar Engineering/Mathematics degrees

- Technical aptitude - You're technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (we use Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes)

- Superb communication - intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others.

- Resilience - We're inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along way

- Assurance - Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego-less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives.

- Creative problem solving - Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You're instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks.

- Bonus Points - Prior experience steering AI model output using techniques such as prompt engineering, supervised finetuning, and reinforcement learning.