Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Application for a Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer role at Titan, a company focused on rebuilding wealth management from the ground up using technology.

🏢 About Titan

Despite decades of innovation in money, the most important consumer money domain remains largely untouched: wealth management. Legacy Wall Street institutions still dominate private wealth, gatekeeping their services behind extremely high minimums, janky user experiences, and layers of fees. They are, in our opinion, the \"final boss\" of consumer fintech.

Our belief: every American deserves an elite wealth team navigating their capital, delivered at the cost and speed only humans working in harmony with AI can unlock.

At heart, we're a small pack of hard-working rebels operating at the intersection of engineering craft and high-stakes financial precision. Every person here is a calibrated bet on what we're building next. Our mission is to rebuild what a wealth management firm means, from the ground up, brick by brick, leveraging technology across the entire stack, so that AI lets one wealth advisor deliver what used to take a team, serving clients a Wall Street team never could have reached.

We're backed by a16z and Sam Altman, and currently power over $1 billion in assets under management.

🎯 The Role

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 Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer to help architect, build, and scale the core systems that power our financial platform. You’ll 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.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js 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.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 3 + years of professional experience building backend systems in TypeScript or comparable languages (Node.js 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.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• 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.

🎁 Benefits

• Exceptional health & dental coverage for you & your family, with all/majority of the premium covered!
• We invest in your future on day 1 with a 401(K) match up to 4% of your salary.
• Flexible PTO & sick days to relax, recharge, and pursue your passions!
• Monthly internet, health & wellness and a one time work-from-home setup stipends.
• Fully paid parental leave for our new parents!
• Gourmet meals delivered 3 times a week.
• Mac / PC laptop provided for all employees.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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