Application Team Member
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As a member of our application team, you’ll be at the intersection of domain knowledge, a complex data model, and a stream of real-world events. Every day, every portfolio is acted on simultaneously by market movements, user actions, and system processes. Your job is to ensure the right things happen in the right order, and that edge cases are handled correctly so that financial advisors can trust what they’re seeing.
You’ll spend a lot of your time figuring out what correctness means when multiple actions hit a portfolio at once. You’ll need to distill this complexity into a clear experience that allows financial advisors to understand the impact of their choices and present the best possible information to their clients.
You’ll Be a Great Fit If You
- Have a natural ability to think and reason about complex systems
- Are able to dive into an unfamiliar domain and quickly build up working knowledge of how multiple components interact
- Enjoy taking a cloud of complex problems and making them clear and straightforward
- Are a proactive and effective learner who habitually analyzes and improves your own process
How We Work
We hire carefully because this domain is complex and correctness matters. The people who thrive here care deeply about understanding problems. They are comfortable talking things through with others, even when they know their understanding might be incomplete. They can make meaningful progress even before they fully understand the system. They strike a practical balance that keeps work moving: they can ship a fix, stabilize a production fire, or get an MVP out the door and keep thinking critically about the problem afterward, turning it over until they reach a root cause or a clearer understanding.
Primary Responsibilities
- Explain issues, potential solutions, and tradeoffs in ways that make sense to a variety of stakeholders
- Write up bug reports and feature requests that expose the underlying user needs
- Work with the development team to design a system that will help our users get things done and hold up under real-world conditions
- Write product documentation that helps users get up and running quickly
- Organize the backlog in a way that facilitates prioritization
- Work with development teams to assure smooth delivery and proactively expose risks
- Track and analyze product outcomes
Requirements
- 1-3 years of experience building production applications OR a degree requiring strong quantitative skills (e.g., math, statistics, engineering, computer science)
- Excellent interpersonal skills working with different kinds of stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to reason about quantitative data and systems with complex domain logic
- Clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Ability to think through multiple alternative solutions
- Demonstrated ability to pick up new skills as needed
Nice To Haves
- Prior fintech experience is a plus but not necessary to thrive in this role
Tools You’ll Use
Expected proficiency: you don’t need prior experience with the tools listed below. It is sufficient to be familiar enough with similar tools to pick any of them up within a few days.
- JIRA to track work in progress
- Confluence, Google Docs, and Wiki.js to maintain documentation
- Figma to design mockups
- Miro to visualize workflows and conduct interactive meetings
- Google Sheets, Superset, and some SQL to analyze usage data and produce charts and graphs
- Open-source coding agents + local LLMs
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Smartleaf
View Company ProfileSmartleaf (operating at smartleaf.com) is a financial services platform engineered for wealth managers, registered investment advisors (RIAs), and institutional clients. Founded in 1999 by John de Souza and headquartered in Boston, MA, Smartleaf revolutionizes portfolio management by automating tax-sensitive rebalancing at scale—solving the inefficiencies of manual, one-size-fits-all asset allocation. Under the hood, its proprietary algorithms combine financial engineering, mathematical modeling, and software automation to deliver hyper-personalized portfolios that dynamically adjust for tax optimization and risk mitigation. This empowers wealth advisory firms to serve clients of all sizes with precision, scalability, and unmatched tax efficiency, currently managing over $75 billion in assets under management. Backed by a total funding of $250.4 billion (per Crunchbase), Smartleaf bridges the gap between human expertise and algorithmic rigor, ensuring advisors can focus on client relationships while leveraging cutting-edge technology.
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