Principal Software Engineer - Backend

About Titan

Titan is an award-winning, Wall-Street-based wealth management firm. Backed by some of Silicon Valley’s best (a16z, GC, Sam Altman), we manage the wealth of tens of thousands of clients, with billions in assets. As consumer finance approaches its graduation moment from the era of fast money day trading, we’re vying to be its leader. Our end objective is to build the next Goldman Sachs, one of the most revered institutions in all of finance. 

Why Join Titan

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

• World-Class Investors: We’re backed by top investors who share our bold vision, including a16z, General Catalyst, Sam Altman. 

• Critical Why Now: The advent of LLMs enables Titan to be the first AI-native advisor in history (if you needed a peek at our roadmap, here you go). This is driving our urgency.

• Disproportionate Impact: We’re still at the beginning of our journey and a small team, which is ultimately the greatest selling point to the right person. 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 (you’ll see our founders in office most days of the week). 

• Big Vision, Big Risks: We believe in taking bold opportunities and aren’t afraid of change. 

• Compensation: Titan offers competitive cash compensation and well-above-market equity packages because we want every team member to feel and act like an owner.

Role Overview

As a Principal Software Engineer - Backend you'll be responsible for maintaining and extending our trading and account management infrastructure to support and delight tens of thousands of our clients transacting millions of dollars a day. From adding support for new financial products and accounts types to building our automated portfolio management system to handling thousands of daily messages to keep our accounts in sync you'll be touching the core infrastructure of our systems that enables everything else. You'll work closely with Engineering Management and other members of the engineering team to ensure the continued stability, scalability and security of Titan's systems. You'll also work cross-functionally with our design, product and customer experience teams to deliver delightful experiences that have never before been seen in a financial product.

Qualifications:

• A strong technical background including > 7 years building applications using JavaScript / TypeScript.

• Experience leading / mentoring engineers 

• Experience working with complex, real-time external APIs.

• A desire to get better everyday. Titan’s best days are still to come and so are yours.

• An ability to work in a fast paced environment with subject matter experts from across the company.

• A strong sense of responsibility and integrity. We’re a fiduciary of our clients and we always act with their best interests at heart.