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Grace Sun
Putting the Tech in Fintech: How We Use FIX to Execute Trades at Scale
At Wealthfront, the “tech” in financial technology isn’t just a buzzword—it’s the foundation of everything we build. Beneath the intuitive frontend our clients interact with lies a complex ecosystem of distributed systems. One of the most critical pieces of that backend architecture is the engine that enables us to route massive volumes of trades efficiently. … Read more
Eloy Gonzalez
How we standardized MariaDB in our Integration Server
Engineering at Wealthfront is centered on the idea that code should be written to facilitate testing, not the other way around. Without a staging environment to fall back on, we maximize confidence through a sophisticated, multi-layered testing strategy. While unit tests provide our most rigorous line of defense, our Integration Server is the workhorse that… Read more
Matthew Bommer
XcodeGen and the quest to modularize the Wealthfront iOS app
Every iOS application starts as a monolith. Xcode’s default project structure places all source files, resources, and build configuration into a single module (or target, for all the iOS devs reading this). For small apps, this works fine. For a 10+ year old financial application with roughly 2,000 Swift and a handful of Objective-C files,… Read more
Grace Sun
H2 Framework: How We Test Our Automated Investing Infrastructure
At Wealthfront, we build automated investing systems that manage client portfolios with meticulous care by incorporating a large set of rules, optimizations, and input data. Testing such complex systems is inherently challenging; small code changes can interact in unexpected ways, which makes it crucial to have a robust framework that validates our investing decisions. To… Read more
Elan Medoff
Revamping Data Fetching Patterns on the Web Platform
Client-side data fetching is an essential part of the web app at Wealthfront. Traditionally, we fetched data from the Wealthfront API globally: we’d load all the data necessary for the entire page and store it in global state for components on the page to pull from. Crucially, the bulk of this data fetching logic was… Read more
Connor Littleton
Navigating the Monorepo Tooling Landscape:Wealthfront’s Journey
In this blog post, we will delve into the topic of Monorepo adoption at Wealthfront. We will start by discussing the technical challenges posed by the previous tech stack and how switching to a new tech stack enabled us to modernize our web application. We will then take a closer look at the benefits of… Read more