Creating Wealthfront Android Design System Resources Package
Current system As part of building a multi-platform design system, the Design System team at Wealthfront revised our color system to support generating application themes from a given set of brand colors. After defining an algorithm for this, we codified it into a theme generator script which generates output for all platforms: XML for Android, JSON… Read more
Implementing Event Tracking Infra with CDK
Engineers at Wealthfront emphasize iterative development and maintainability of code to build robust applications. The underpinnings of any application is its infrastructure. To build robust and scalable apps, it is a requirement to apply the same engineering principles of iteration and maintainability to create quality, underlying infrastructure. In the case of our event-tracking system, which… Read more
Event Tracking System at Wealthfront
Wealthfront is a leading robo-advisor in the fintech domain offering investment related services to its clients. To enable rapid experimentation capability in our product, Wealthfront has overhauled the current event tracking system and moved it from on-prem to AWS cloud. Wealthfront uses event data generated by user actions on web, iOS and Android to provide… Read more
Migrating the Wealthfront web app to TypeScript
Over two years ago, the Wealthfront web team began adopting TypeScript to take advantage of the type safety and related functionality it enables. This is a common migration in the past few years across the industry since the web community mostly settled on TypeScript as the language of choice. Since then, the codebase has naturally… Read more
Designing a harness for readable, thorough Android tests
At Wealthfront, we are committed to automation – both in the products we build, and in how we ensure quality. In this post we’ll explore how our automated test harness enables Android developers to quickly build tests for almost any scenario. Part 1: Writing “fluent” Espresso test code Since they are designed to operate in… Read more
Evolving Wealthfront’s Web tech stack
Over the past year, we’ve adopted more frameworks and libraries to deliver a better user experience. Our core web application is driven by a tried-and-true Ruby on Rails server that serves React apps. This serves us well, but we wanted to build richer and more performant experiences for prospective clients interested in our products. Specifically,… Read more