AI-Native Data Platform Engineer

About the role

Farther is a rapidly growing RIA combining expert advisors with technology, offering a tailored wealth management experience. As an AI-Native Data Platform Engineer, you will design and own the canonical data foundations powering its financial AI systems, including the ontology, data contracts and reconciliation frameworks that let intelligent agents operate safely and autonomously.

Key responsibilities

• Design scalable ingestion pipelines across custodians (Schwab, Fidelity, Pershing, etc.) and internal financial systems
• Build and evolve canonical models for accounts, positions, transactions, balances, corporate actions and household hierarchies
• Define the financial data ontology and enforce strong data contracts across services
• Implement reconciliation frameworks and golden-source resolution across multi-vendor datasets
• Engineer AI-ready data layers optimized for embeddings, vector search and RAG architectures
• Structure financial datasets to improve prompt reliability and LLM output consistency
• Architect closed-loop, agent-driven systems that monitor, reason over and autonomously remediate data inconsistencies
• Implement observability, lineage, governance and fine-grained access controls across regulated datasets

Required profile

• 5+ years building production-grade data platforms
• Experience designing canonical schemas and resolving vendor data inconsistencies
• Strong understanding of custodial financial data (positions, trades, balances, performance, corporate actions)
• Strong ownership mindset and systems-level thinking

Required skills

• Deep SQL and strong Python for data engineering
• Familiarity with embeddings, vector databases and retrieval architectures
• Exposure to prompt engineering and structured context design for LLM systems
• Knowledge of MLOps fundamentals (versioning, monitoring, reproducibility)
• AWS data services (S3, Lambda, ECS, Glue, Redshift, OpenSearch) and event-driven orchestration
• Bonus: wealth management or capital markets background, OpenAI or Anthropic API integration, authorization platforms such as OSO or Auth0, CI/CD via GitHub

What we offer

• Learning and growth through book clubs, seminars and peer learning sessions
• Full health benefits, 401(k) matching and Roth IRA options
• Unlimited PTO
• Collaborative atmosphere between product, design and engineering