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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
Team Crafting using a Team Depth Chart
A highly effective team is more than the sum of its parts because the interplay between team members’ strengths and weaknesses can be crafted into a cohesive unit. This blog post describes a management tool we use at Wealthfront to help craft an effective engineering team. The Challenge Crafting an effective engineering team is a… Read more
Senior Engineer Archetypes
Wealthfront believes in providing engineers opportunities to have impact so they can grow at a pace that matches their experience. However we have observed several instances where high-performing engineers would step up into senior roles and take on new responsibilities, but then unfortunately become unhappy or unsuccessful. When transitioning into senior engineering roles an individual’s… Read more
Principles of Engineering Culture at Wealthfront
Wealthfront is a technology company. We believe software is the key to building products that help our clients build wealth, and our relationship with technology directly determines how good we are at building this software. When engineers onboard at Wealthfront, we give them this document, our Principles of Engineering Culture. These principles describe Wealthfront’s relationship… Read more
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
Unifying Wealthfront’s Transfer Flows: An iOS Engineering Journey
Introduction For over a year, the Cash team at Wealthfront has been working towards a consistent transfer experience across the Wealthfront ecosystem. Before beginning this project we had a number of separate transfer flows that each had their distinct user experience. Each transfer flow was built with its own set of UI components, models, and… Read more