Senior Backend Software Engineer – Portfolio Services

Title: Sr. Backend Software Engineer – Portfolio Services

Location: Remote, USA

Who We Are

Addepar’s purpose is to maximize the positive impact of the world’s capital. More than 850 of the world’s leading financial services firms trust Addepar to unlock the power and possibility of informed, data-driven investing and advice. These family offices, wealth managers, banks and institutions use Addepar’s tech and data platform to deliver exceptional value to their clients in a modern, scalable and secure way.

Our clients use Addepar to manage and advise on more than $4 trillion in assets. Our board and investors are some of the best in the business: D1 Capital, WestCap, 8VC and Valor Equity Partners have led our last few rounds.

We’re now expanding Addepar’s business around the globe, with clients in more than 30 countries. We’re constantly doubling down on tech- and data-fueled innovation, and our product and platform roadmap is more ambitious today than ever. We place our clients at the center of everything we do, and see a virtually unlimited set of opportunities to expand our client footprint and deepen the value we can unlock by building together.

Addepar is a Forbes Fintech 50 company and an honored member of the CB Insights Fintech 250. Addepar embraces a global flexible workforce model with offices in Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, England, Edinburgh, Scotland and Pune, India.

*Marketplace and brokerage services provided by Acervus Securities, Inc., an SEC registered broker dealer and member FINRA / SIPC.

The Role

We are currently seeking senior backend software engineers to join teams in our operating platform group! These teams are passionate about handling large volumes of data, and the engineering challenges in building the distributed systems responsible for automated data ingestion and transformation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to use the newest technology stacks to build the next generation of the entire data, computation, API, and research platform of Addepar. We want people who are hard-working and care deeply about solving hard problems at high scale, delighting customers, and participating in the success of the whole company. We look for dedicated engineers with real technical depth and a desire to understand the end business. If you’ve designed sophisticated scalable systems, or worked with great teams on hard problems in financial data, or are just interested in tackling complicated technical, critically important problems, come join us!

What You’ll Do

• Architect, implement, and maintain engineering solutions to solve complex problems; write well-designed, quality and testable code.
• Lead individual project priorities, challenges, and solutions.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers and partners on projects.
• Communicate technical ideas and set direction on projects with a focus on solving business challenges.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team.
• Document software functionality, system design, and project plans; this includes clean, readable code with comments.
• Promote engineering standard methodologies and principles.

Who You Are

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or similar technical field of study.
• 5+ years of experience as a professional software engineer. Expertise in Java and Python.
• Experience in building large-scale and highly efficient distributed systems.
• Experience with databases, SQL, NoSQL, OLAP, and/or data lake architectures.
• Strong AWS knowledge and architectural experience is a plus.
• A strong ownership mentality to solve the most important problems.

Our Values

• Act Like an Owner – Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes.
• Build Together – Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value.
• Champion Our Clients – Exceed client expectations. Our clients’ success is our success.
• Drive Innovation – Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry.
• Embrace Learning – Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset.

In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.

To ensure the health and safety of all Addepeeps and our prospective candidates, we have instituted a virtual interview and onboarding experience.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

PHISHING SCAM WARNING: Addepar is among several companies recently made aware of a phishing scam involving con artists posing as hiring managers recruiting via email, text and social media. The imposters are creating misleading email accounts, conducting remote interviews, and making fake job offers in order to collect personal and financial information from unsuspecting individuals. Please be aware that no job offers will be made from Addepar without a formal interview process. Additionally, Addepar will not ask you to purchase equipment or supplies as part of your onboarding process. If you have any questions, please reach out to recruiting@addepar.com.