Key skills
AICommunication
About this role
Farther is a rapidly growing RIA that combines expert advisors with cutting-edge technology to deliver a comprehensive wealth management experience. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will solve business problems across the full stack, owning and delivering features from requirements to production deployment while leveraging AI tools to enhance your efficiency.
Responsibilities:
- Own and deliver features end-to-end, from understanding business requirements through production deployment
- Work across the full stack, building UIs, designing APIs, and architecting backend services
- Leverage AI tools to ship faster and multiply your effectiveness – use modern technology to accelerate every part of your workflow
- Jump into difficult problems with tenacity, whether production issues, complex debugging, or unfamiliar codebases
- Make autonomous technical decisions and own the outcomes – you have the freedom to choose the right approach
- Collaborate directly with product, design, and business stakeholders to solve user problems
- Contribute to architectural decisions and engineering best practices
Requirements:
- 6+ years of software engineering experience working across the full stack
- Fluency with AI coding tools – you should already be using them to multiply your output and looking for ways to work smarter
- Self-directed and autonomous – you thrive with ownership, work independently on high-level guidance, and prefer results over rigid process
- Product-focused mindset – code exists to solve business problems, not for its own sake
- Outstanding communication – you explain complex concepts clearly and provide actionable updates
- Builder mentality – you ship working software and iterate, not write specs endlessly
- Tenacity to tackle difficult problems head-on
- Track record of winning in multiple areas of your life
- Experience building financial services, trading systems, or wealth management platforms
- Background in high-availability system design and real-time data processing
- Experience with event-driven architectures
- Knowledge of financial regulatory requirements and compliance