Senior Software Engineer, Platform Security & Reliability

Farther Finance · New York · Posted 2025-05-29

Company Description -------------------

Farther is a rapidly growing RIA that combines expert advisors with cutting-edge technology - delivering a comprehensive, tailored wealth management experience.

Farther’s founders are leaders and innovators from the private wealth industry who possess a unique blend of traditional wealth management, fintech, and technology production expertise. We’re backed by top-tier venture capital firms, fintech investors, and industry leaders.

Joining Farther means joining a collaborative team of entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping their clients and our teammates achieve more. If you’re the type who breaks through walls to get things done the right way, we want to build the future of wealth management with you.

The Role

We're looking for a Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure (SETI) to help build the systems that keep our TypeScript codebase fast to test, easy to trust, and safe to ship. This is not your average Test / SETI role. You'll focus on developer experience, designing tools, frameworks, platform work and pipelines that elevate the productivity and confidence of engineers working across both frontend and backend systems. You'll build infrastructure that scales with our growing team, promotes engineering best practices, and catches problems before they reach production. You'll work closely with engineering teams across the organization to ensure our testing ecosystem supports rapid development while maintaining the high reliability and security standards required in financial services.

Your Impact

Design, build, and maintain robust tooling and testing infrastructure to support engineering workflows across our frontend and backend systems. Create comprehensive automation frameworks for unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, leveraging tools like Jest, Playwright, Vitest, and Cypress
Build intelligent CI/CD pipelines that run tests efficiently through advanced techniques like file-change tracking, smart test selection, and parallelization strategies
Develop sophisticated utilities for mocking APIs, stubbing external services, and spinning up isolated testing environments that mirror production conditions
Monitor test reliability and performance metrics to continuously drive improvements in feedback speed and signal quality across all engineering teams
Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure code is testable, traceable, and properly instrumented to build confidence in our deployments
Create comprehensive documentation and onboard teams to best practices in test architecture and optimized developer workflows
Drive key technical decisions for testing infrastructure that supports our critical trading systems and portfolio management platform
Establish testing standards and architectural patterns that enable rapid, confident product development across all our wealth management offerings
Partner with backend teams to build reusable test fixtures and data factories for complex financial workflows and regulatory scenarios

The Ideal Match

5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on testing infrastructure, developer tooling, or platform engineering
Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and modern testing frameworks (Jest, Vitest, Cypress, Playwright)
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
Experience with infrastructure as code (CDK, Datadog, Terraform, or similar)
Solid understanding of test automation patterns, mocking strategies, and test environment management
AWS Infra & Deployment experience
Experience with containerization and orchestration for test environments
Knowledge of database testing strategies and test data management
Strong foundation in software engineering principles and system design
Experience with monitoring and observability tools for test infrastructure
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex testing issues
Strong written communication skills and documentation practices

Bonus Points

Experience with financial services or regulated industry testing requirements
Knowledge of property-based testing and fuzzing techniques
Experience with distributed testing and load testing frameworks
Familiarity with Scala or Python testing ecosystems
Background in building developer productivity tools
Experience with test reporting and analytics platforms
Knowledge of security testing and compliance validation

Why Join Us

Everything you need to build the perfect dev station from hardware to software
Learn & grow through book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions
Full health benefits + 401(k) matching & Roth IRA options
Unlimited PTO
An amazing collaborative atmosphere between product, design, and engineering to solve hard problems together

🚀 Ready to disrupt wealth management? Let's talk!

About Farther Finance

Farther Finance is a developer of an investment advisory platform used to provide modern technology with trusted advice.