Staff Software Engineer - Platform Services

About the role

Who We Are

Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, Geneva, Singapore and São Paulo.

The Role

The Platform Services team is at the core of accelerating Addepar’s platform scalability, elasticity, and global expansion. We play a pivotal role in driving innovation and standards for building distributed services and on-demand environments to meet the rapid scale of Addepar’s growth. Working at the critical intersection of application, infrastructure, and operations teams, we promote developer velocity and robust process automation. With a healthy mix of new technologies and existing core applications, the team thrives on solving complex challenges to deliver high-impact solutions. If you're passionate about creating true engineering leverage, this is the team for you.

Applicants must have, and maintain, the right to work in the United Kingdom from the first day of employment. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

What You’ll Do

Work with teams across the organisation to:

Develop resilient distributed services and high quality tooling to support product operations and engineering.

Investigate and debug complex issues that span across teams and applications.

Drive software delivery and improve the engineering processes we use to develop and release software.

Who You Are

Comfortable working independently, with a bias for action.

Thrives in ambiguous spaces where there isn’t a clear solution.

Enjoys digging into new problems and unfamiliar codebases.

Excels at written and verbal communication

Extensive backend software engineering experience.

Proficiency in developing with server-side OO languages like Java (Python, C++, Go).

Experience with Linux.

Experience with infrastructure components such as CI/CD, monitoring, logging, containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code.

Familiarity with HTTP, developing REST and web APIs.

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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