Software Engineer

Waggoner Financial

$80K — $95K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience building and shipping software in TypeScript or JavaScript.
  • Understanding of full-stack development, especially UI and API interactions.
  • Ability to write clear and maintainable code, fostering constructive code reviews.
  • Effective communication skills for interacting with non-technical users like financial advisors.
  • Curiosity about the finance domain, though a background is not required.
  • Familiarity with AI coding tools like Claude Code or OpenAI models.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship features across the internal platform end-to-end.
  • Integrate with financial data providers, ensuring authentication and data handling.
  • Create analytics and decision tools for advisors, aiding in investment choices.
  • Develop AI-powered features for document search and workflow automation.
  • Engage in code review, testing, and contribute to architectural improvements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, life, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with company matching.
  • Generous paid time off.
  • Direct mentorship from seasoned engineers, with growth opportunities.
  • Ownership of impactful features that support real investment decisions.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge tools including AI development workflows.
  • Collaborative team environment with influence on architecture and product strategy.
Full Job Description
We are looking for software engineers to join our internal platform team. You'll work across our full stack, GraphQL API (NestJS), React frontend (Next.js), and PostgreSQL database, building tools that advisors use to make real investment decisions. Scope scales with experience: early-career developers ship well-scoped features with mentorship, while senior developers drive architecture decisions and mentor others.
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and ship features end-to-end across our internal platform
  • Build and maintain integrations with financial data providers, including Black Diamond, Capital IQ, FMP, Box, and Redtail, including authentication, error handling, and data parsing
  • Develop analytics and decision tools, including portfolio metrics, earnings tracking, and risk analysis used by advisors for real investment decisions
  • Build AI-powered features, including document search, chat over internal knowledge, and workflow automation
  • Participate in code review, testing, and the ongoing architectural restructure of the platform

Requirements
  • Experience building and shipping real software in TypeScript or JavaScript, whether professional, academic, or personal projects.
  • Full-stack reasoning: understanding how a UI change relates to an API, and how an API relates to its data.
  • Clear, readable code and constructive participation in code review.
  • Clear communication with non-engineers; our users are financial advisors.
  • Curiosity about the financial domain, no finance background required.
  • Comfort using LLM coding assistance such as Claude Code or OpenAI models.
Nice to Have
  • Experience with Next.js, React, NestJS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, TypeORM, Nx, or Bun.
  • Third-party API integration experience.
  • Fintech exposure.
  • Python experience.
  • Experience building LLM-powered features.

Benefits
  • Comprehensive health, dental, life, and short and long term disability insurance.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Generous paid time off.
  • Direct mentorship from experienced engineers, with scope that grows as you do.
  • Hands-on ownership of real features used by advisors for real investment decisions.
  • Exposure to modern tooling, including AI-powered development workflows and LLM coding assistants.
  • Small, collaborative engineering team with direct input into architecture and product direction.

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