About this role.
Dispatch is hiring a mid-level Backend Engineer to build and scale integrations for a wealth-tech data orchestration platform. The role centers on third-party financial-system integrations, API and data-model design, reliable data synchronization, and backend service ownership from design through monitoring. Candidates need 4–6 years of backend experience, strong distributed-systems and relational-database fundamentals, and comfort with Golang, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS SQS, and S3. This is a high-autonomy startup role that requires close collaboration with product, design, frontend engineering, and external system constraints.
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I would begin by defining a canonical internal data model and explicit field-level mappings, including transformation and validation rules. I would use idempotent operations, durable sync checkpoints, retries with backoff, and a dead-letter path for exceptions. I would also implement observability around sync status, latency, mapping failures, and reconciliation so discrepancies can be detected and corrected safely.
I would isolate the integration behind a client layer that enforces rate limits, timeout policies, bounded retries, exponential backoff, and jitter. Work would be queued asynchronously where possible, with idempotency keys and persisted job state to prevent duplicate updates. I would distinguish retryable from permanent errors, route exhausted retries to a dead-letter queue, and expose clear alerts and metrics.
I would keep ownership of shared state explicit, use channels or synchronization primitives appropriately, and avoid unbounded goroutine creation. Context propagation, cancellation, timeouts, backpressure, and bounded worker pools are important for operational safety. I would validate the design with race detection, load tests, structured logging, and metrics around queue depth, error rates, and request latency.
I would first use correlation IDs and audit logs to trace the source record, transformation steps, outbound request, third-party response, and resulting internal state. I would compare raw source data against canonical and destination representations to identify whether the issue arose from mapping, timing, API behavior, or a stale record. After resolving the immediate issue, I would add a regression test, reconciliation control, or monitoring signal to prevent recurrence.
I clarify the customer outcome and non-negotiable reliability constraints first, then deliver the smallest observable solution that can safely meet them. I make trade-offs explicit, use feature flags or incremental rollouts where appropriate, and prioritize automated tests around critical data paths. This enables fast iteration while preserving maintainability and reducing the risk of customer-impacting failures.
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 a backend engineer to help build and scale our integration infrastructure. You’ll work closely with our staff backend engineer to tackle complex problems in data mapping, syncing, and platform reliability while expanding our integration capabilities across the wealth tech ecosystem.
Where you’ll make an impact:
Build and maintain integrations with third-party financial systems, expanding our platform’s connectivity across the wealth tech landscape.
Solve complex data mapping and synchronization challenges, ensuring accurate and reliable data flow between disparate systems with different schemas and constraints.
Develop platform capabilities that enable seamless, scalable data orchestration for our customers’ tech stacks.
Own end-to-end delivery of backend features and services, from design through deployment and monitoring.
Contribute to our integration infrastructure, building reusable patterns and tooling that make adding new integrations faster and more reliable.
Collaborate with frontend, product, and design teams to deliver high-quality customer experiences backed by robust backend systems.
Requirements:
4-6 years of backend engineering experience with a track record of shipping reliable, well-tested systems.
Strong fundamentals in backend development, including API design, data modeling, concurrent systems, and performance optimization.
Experience working with relational databases and distributed systems concepts.
Curious and eager to learn – you’re excited to dig into unfamiliar systems, understand complex integrations, and grow your technical skills.
Bias toward action and ownership – you see a problem, propose solutions, and drive it to completion without needing constant direction.
Strong communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineers.
Thrive in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and high autonomy.
Interest and experience with AI tools and prompting – you leverage AI in your workflow and can help level up the team’s capabilities.
You’ll stand out if you have:
Experience building integrations, ETL pipelines, or working with third-party APIs at scale.
Exposure to financial services, fintech, or B2B SaaS products.
Experience at seed/early-stage startups where you wore multiple hats and moved quickly.
Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues, or data synchronization patterns.
Previously built side projects or contributed to open source software.
Our tech stack: Golang, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS SQS, Amazon S3
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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