Principal Backend / Infrastructure Engineer – TypeScript
About Titan
Titan is an award-winning wealth manager with a mission to increase our generation’s compound growth rate. We plan to do this by putting a human wealth advisor in every pocket. Historically, wealth managers have been accessible to only the ultra-wealthy. With Titan, they’re available to everyone. We harness frontier technologies like artificial intelligence to build a platform that gives advisors superpowers, enabling them to serve clients they historically never could. Backed by a16z, General Catalyst, Sam Altman, and many others, we manage over $1 billion in assets for clients across the country.
Why Join Titan
For the right person, we believe Titan will be one of the most rewarding jobs they ever have.
Ambitious Vision: When we put private wealth management in every pocket, we’ll make a legacy-defining impact in growing our generation’s wealth to new heights.
Critical Why Now: The advent of LLMs unlocks our vision to democratize personalized wealth management for everyone. This drives our urgency every day.
Disproportionate Impact: We’re still at the beginning of our journey with a small team, which means 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 every day).
Compensation: Titan offers competitive cash compensation and well-above-market equity packages because we want every team member to be an owner.
World-Class Investors: We’re backed by top investors who share our bold vision, including a16z, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, and Sam Altman.
Role Overview
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 Principal 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. This is a high-impact role where your technical decisions will directly affect platform reliability and performance at scale.
Core Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript.
Improve and extend the infrastructure that enables trading, account management, transaction processing, and portfolio automation.
Ensure high availability, performance, and security across backend systems powering millions of daily operations.
Build and enhance internal tools, data pipelines, and system integrations.
Extend our devOps/infrastructure to shape CI/CD, deployment automation, observability, monitoring, and incident response.
Champion best practices for code quality, system design, testing, and documentation.
Mentor junior engineers and drive architectural initiatives across the backend domain.
Qualifications
6 + 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.
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
What Makes You Stand Out
Experience building financial or real-time services.
Familiarity with automated portfolio, trading, or financial data systems.
Previous ownership of backend infrastructure or mission-critical systems.
Experience scaling apps used by tens of thousands of users with high throughput.