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Dispatch is hiring a Senior Fullstack Engineer to lead development of an early-stage wealth-tech data orchestration product for financial advisors. The role owns end-to-end delivery of complex, customer-facing features such as self-service onboarding, data blending, deconfliction, and digital account opening. The engineer will influence architecture and product direction while supporting production reliability, developer experience, and the growth of the engineering team. The stack centers on React, Node, Fastify, MUI, React Query, Vite, Storybook, and Playwright. This is a high-ownership individual-contributor position for someone comfortable moving quickly amid startup ambiguity.
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Dear Dispatch Hiring Team,
I am excited to apply for the Senior Fullstack Engineer role and contribute to Dispatch's mission of simplifying data orchestration for financial advisors. My experience delivering scalable, user-focused web applications and owning systems from architecture through production aligns well with the need for strong end-to-end product leadership.
I would bring a pragmatic, customer-centered approach to building onboarding, data-management, and account-opening workflows, while maintaining high standards for reliability, observability, and developer experience. I am particularly energized by the opportunity to work in an early-stage environment where engineering decisions directly shape product strategy and customer outcomes.
I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how my technical judgment, execution speed, and collaborative approach can help Dispatch build an exceptional wealth-tech platform.
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I would explain how I clarified the customer problem and success metrics, collaborated with product and design on scope, designed the technical approach, and delivered in incremental releases. I would also cover production monitoring, user feedback, and the follow-up improvements I made after launch.
I would begin by defining source-of-truth rules, entity identifiers, data lineage, conflict-resolution policies, and an audit trail. I would build the workflow around idempotent synchronization, clear exception states, human-review paths for ambiguous matches, and monitoring that surfaces integration failures or data-quality regressions.
I use small, reversible releases, automated tests at the appropriate layers, feature flags, code review, and observability from the start. I prioritize the highest-risk paths, establish actionable alerts and dashboards, and use incidents or customer feedback to continuously improve the engineering process.
I identify the assumptions with the greatest impact, validate them quickly with stakeholders, and choose the simplest design that supports the near-term product need without blocking likely evolution. I document key tradeoffs, establish boundaries that can scale independently, and revisit decisions as evidence changes.
I lead through clear technical communication, constructive code reviews, reusable documentation, and a consistent focus on customer impact. I also mentor peers through pairing and design discussions, improve development tooling where it removes friction, and model ownership during launches and operational issues.
About Us
The financial advisory industry is a $80T market in the US, but has seen little technological innovation compared to the self-service market (Robinhood, Betterment, Wealthfront, SoFi). Client data management is a universally painful and expensive problem for financial advisors. Today, advisors manually collect, update, and utilize client data across the 7-10 software tools that they use to run their business. Data transcription and translation across systems is time-consuming and error-prone, leading to costly inefficiencies and embarrassing client-facing problems. Managing data access control, audit logs, and compliance is a constant challenge, particularly in larger organizations.
We are building the first wealth tech data orchestration company. We sync client data across a financial advisor’s tech stack, unlocking the efficiency of a fully-integrated software suite with the choice of tools that best fit their business. We are laser-focused on enabling the best technology experiences for advisors and unlocking the potential of the entire wealth tech software ecosystem. We’re an experienced team of start-up operators with deep roots in both tech and advisory. You can learn more about us on our website.
Role Details
Role overview:
We’re looking for an experienced fullstack engineer who can lead the development of our early product. You’ll help evolve our engineering culture, take end-to-end ownership over the features that you build, and heavily influence the product roadmap and architecture decisions.
Where you’ll make an impact:
Lead areas of development critical to the business, building features such as: self-service onboarding, data blending and deconfliction, and digital account opening.
As an early employee, you’ll have a large role to play in shaping the company’s technical vision and product roadmap.
Help us build and maintain a strong (and enjoyable!) developer experience.
Ensure that the product operates smoothly in production, leveraging observability and monitoring tools to triage and resolve operational issues.
Help hire and mentor other engineers as we build out our fast-growing team.
Requirements:
Strong track record of shipping high-quality systems with high complexity and scale.
Experience building high-quality, delightful user-facing web applications.
Experience working closely with a cross-functional product team.
Excited to primarily be an individual contributor with a ton of ownership.
You thrive in an early-stage, fast-paced environment with a high degree of ambiguity and agency.
Impact-driven — you focus on the most important problems to solve and execute to deliver. You get shit done.
Bias towards action and ownership – when you see a problem, you fix it.
Customer-centric – you are focused on creating the best customer experience possible.
Move fast — you can operate at breakneck speed and work furiously to ship, ship, ship.
7+ years of engineering experience.
You’ll stand out if you have:
Experience building B2B software and/or fintech software.
Experience at seed/early-stage startups (eg, being a first-3 engineer at a company).
Experience building and maintaining open source software.
Previously started a company and/or launched personal projects.
Experience with AI promting, models, and tools. You are someone who not only leverages these in your work, but can help level-up our team.
Our tech stack:
React, Node, Fastify, MUI, React Query, Vite, Storybook, Playwright
Why Dispatch?
Why work at Dispatch?
We’re a highly experienced team with a track record of successfully building together. We’re well-versed in building for the best tech companies and asset managers.
We’re a well-funded company backed by top-tier investors.
We’re laser-focused on customers and believe that a world-class user experience is critical for product and business success.
We move fast, iterate quickly, and have a high bar for what “excellent” looks like.
What we offer:
Competitive salary and equity options
High-quality benefits package including 100% company-paid insurance premiums for family coverage (medical, vision, dental).
401K, HSA & FSA plans
OneMedical, HealthAdvocate, TalkSpace, and Teladoc memberships
Technology stipend
Unlimited PTO
Paid parental leave
Office space in San Francisco and New York for in-person working
Dispatch provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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