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Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer – TypeScript

Titan · New York · On-site

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About Titan

Titan is a modern wealth management platform that pairs clients with a dedicated human financial advisor for equity compensation planning, RSU strategy, tax optimization, investment management, and retirement planning. Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and Y Combinator.

About 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.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

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.

For the right person, this will be one of the most rewarding roles they ever...

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