The Role

We are currently seeking a senior backend software engineer to join Addepar in our data imports 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 $125,000 - $195,000 + 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.