Sr. Backend Software Engineer

Who We Are

Addepar is a global technology and data company that helps investment professionals provide the most informed, precise guidance for their clients. Hundreds of thousands of users have entrusted Addepar to empower smarter investment decisions and better advice over the last decade. With client presence in more than 50 countries, Addepar’s platform aggregates portfolio, market and client data for over $7 trillion in assets. Addepar’s open platform integrates with more than 100 software, data and services partners to deliver a complete solution for a wide range of firms and use cases. Addepar embraces a global flexible workforce model with offices in Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, Edinburgh, Pune, and Dubai.

The Role

We are currently seeking a senior backend software engineer to join Addepar in our Import and Document Management team! This team is 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, join us!

Addepar takes a market-based approach to pay. A successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on the role, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target base salary for roles in Colorado, California, and New York.

The current range for this role is $126,000 - $197,000 (base salary) + bonus + equity + benefits.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Additionally, these ranges reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

What You’ll Do

• Architect, implement, and maintain engineering solutions to solve complex problems; write well-designed, testable code
• Lead individual project priorities, deadlines, and solutions
• Collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers and partners on projects
• Communicate technical ideas and set direction on projects with a focus on solving business challenges
• Mentor other 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., or M.S. in Computer Science or similar technical field of study (or equivalent practical experience)
• Demonstrated ability as a professional software engineer and experience with any object-oriented programming language. Expertise in Java is a plus
• Experience in building and evolving large-scale, impactful 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 and drive to solve the most important problems
• Passion for implementing standard processes with a bias toward smart automation
• Proven ability to collaborate with and mentor other engineers

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.

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.

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