Compensation Transparency
Salary Range: $135,000 - $150,000
At Earned, we are committed to fair and transparent compensation. Base salary is market-driven and determined at the time of offer based on benchmarks such as role-specific market data, company stage, and factors such as internal equity, relevant experience, interview performance, location, and level.
About Earned
Earned is a category-defining, first-in-kind tax-smart financial services firm dedicated to serving doctors, their families, and their practices. Our goal is to be the only financial partner doctors need by seamlessly integrating personal and practice-based solutions to maximize their wealth potential and drive better financial outcomes.
We bring together tax, accounting, wealth management, insurance, and legal services under one platform not as a generic one-stop shop, but to deliver better advice through an integrated view of a doctor’s full financial life. Our differentiation is relationship-led, trust-based selling paired with disciplined execution across the ecosystem.
Earned manages $3.4B+ in assets, serves more than 20,000 clients, and is one of the fastest-growing doctor-focused platforms in the country. Backed by $200M of committed capital, we are scaling rapidly through acquisitions and organic growth across multiple service lines.
We are building this platform from the ground up, leveraging modern technology, data, and AI to simplify the client experience and make it easier for advisors and sales teams to deliver high-quality advice at scale. Operating across multiple service lines, acquired entities, and client entry points requires a highly disciplined yet relationship-driven go-to-market model that can scale without losing trust.
Join us as we build the future of financial services for doctors faster, smarter, and at scale.
Job Summary
This is a unique opportunity to join a startup with strong traction (substantial funding, tremendous growth, and many happy customers). At the same time, we are still small enough that you will have a meaningful impact, with meaningful equity participation, and play a massive role in shaping our company culture.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and develop scalable, reusable microservice-based systems using AWS and Infrastructure as Code (CDK) for automations and applications in wealth management.
- Build robust APIs and backend automation workflows that support complex AI-enabled financial services operations.
- Enhance the scalability, reliability, security, and performance of backend infrastructure by optimizing code and leveraging AWS services like Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to develop excellent data models, ensure easy-to-consume APIs, and guarantee seamless execution of backend processes.
- Develop and maintain databases and datasets, while implementing automations that adhere to best practices in security, scalability, reliability, and data integrity.
- Own and continually refine developer workflows and CI/CD pipelines, integrating AI and automation to maximize efficiency and reduce manual interventions.
Key Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in backend engineering, showcasing proficiency in TypeScript
- Demonstrable expertise in building RESTful APIs and microservice architectures
- Experience working with infrastructure as code on AWS, with services such as SQS, API Gateway, Lambda, and S3
- Advanced knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, such as DynamoDB / MongoDB and PostgreSQL / MySQL, comfortable writing complex queries and designing efficient data models
- Hands-on involvement in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions / AWS CodePipeline / Jenkins, with a focus on automated testing and deployment
- Good understanding of security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and encryption techniques
- Knowledge of design patterns and architectural principles, with an emphasis on building maintainable and extensible codebases
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, designers, and product managers
- An attractive total compensation package
- Employer-sponsored health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- 401k + 5% match
Earned is committed to offering equal employment opportunity in all employment practices and employment decisions are based on an individual’s job qualifications and abilities. Earned prohibits discrimination based on race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender (including gender identity, gender expression and being transgender), sexual orientation, marital status, registered domestic partner status, citizenship status, age, military and veteran status, medical condition, genetic information, political affiliation, disability, medical condition, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance or regulation. Earned also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of these characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. All such discrimination is unlawful.
