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Creating Android Lint Checks: A Survival Guide

September 12, 2023 , , ,

At Wealthfront, we’ve observed that the cost of resolving an issue becomes exponentially higher the later it is discovered. For example, a defect discovered at design time is far easier to resolve than one which has already reached our clients. And between those extremes, we can discover issues at code authoring, compilation, or automated test… Read more

Optimizing Multi-table SQL Queries

May 31, 2023 ,

Wealthfront’s trading system evaluates hundreds of thousands of client accounts daily for tax-loss harvesting and rebalancing opportunities, requiring high throughput to process all accounts within market hours and low latency to minimize price movement while making investment decisions. In a system with heavy database usage that has low-latency SLA’s such as ours, database queries must… Read more

Creating Wealthfront Android Design System Resources Package

March 17, 2023 ,

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

November 01, 2022 ,

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