# New Leaders, New Perspectives: Why We Joined Wealthfront Engineering

DevFeed: [New Leaders, New Perspectives: Why We Joined Wealthfront Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/new-leaders-new-perspectives-why-we-joined-wealthfront-engineering-20460.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eng.wealthfront.com/2026/02/12/new-leaders-new-perspectives-why-we-joined-wealthfront-engineering/>)

Author: Sanjana Kaundinya

Published: 2026-02-12T23:10:24Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Wealthfront](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/wealthfront.md>)

Topics: [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [perspectives](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/perspectives.md>), [wealthfront-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wealthfront-engineering.md>)

## AI overview

Wealthfront interviews two new engineering managers about joining the company, its engineering culture, and how individual ownership shapes software design and project direction.

## Source excerpt

At Wealthfront, our engineering culture is something you experience as soon as you join the organization, and new hires are regularly surprised by how quickly and fully they begin to contribute and drive impact. We sat down with two of our new engineering managers, Melissa and Sanjana, to hear how quickly they were able to... Read more