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
As a Staff Frontend Engineer at Farther, you'll be a key technical leader within our engineering organization, driving frontend architecture and technical excellence across multiple projects and teams. You'll shape the technical vision of our frontend systems, establish engineering standards, and tackle our most complex technical challenges. While working hands-on with React, TypeScript, and functional programming, you'll influence technical decisions that impact our entire platform. This is a technical leadership role focused on engineering excellence, not people management.
Your Impact
- Drive technical architecture decisions that shape the future of our frontend platform
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale technical initiatives across multiple projects
- Establish frontend engineering standards and best practices that scale across the organization
- Tackle complex technical challenges in performance, scalability, and system design
- Guide and mentor senior engineers through complex technical decisions
- Drive technical excellence through code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical documentation
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to define technical strategy and roadmap
- Work across teams to solve architectural challenges and ensure system cohesion
- Champion engineering excellence and innovation in frontend development practices
- Lead technical discovery and implementation of major new features and systems
The Ideal Match
- 10+ years of frontend development experience, with proven expertise in React and TypeScript
- Deep expertise in frontend architecture, performance optimization, and scalable system design
- Extensive experience leading technical implementation of large-scale projects
- Strong background in functional programming principles and patterns
- Track record of making significant technical decisions that positively impact engineering organizations
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving technical best practices
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, particularly in technical documentation
- Proven ability to break down complex technical problems and guide solutions across multiple teams
- Experience building and maintaining complex financial or data-intensive applications
- History of successful technical leadership without direct management responsibilities
Bonus Points
- Experience building financial trading or wealth management platforms
- Contributions to open-source projects or technical blogs
- Experience with design systems and component library architecture
- Background in performance optimization of large-scale applications
- Experience with technical strategy and roadmap planning
- Knowledge of emerging frontend technologies and best practices
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
🚀 Want to learn more about building the future of wealth tech at Farther? Visit tech-life.farther.com to discover more about our engineering teams, tech stack, culture, interview process, and perks & benefits.
Farther New York, New York, USA Office
4 World Trade Center, New York, NY, United States, 10007
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