Software Engineer - Backend Calculations

Job Description

Who We Are

Addepar’s purpose is to maximize the positive impact of the world’s capital. More than 700 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 purpose-built SaaS platform and associated Marketplace 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 $3.5 trillion in assets, and we’ve been adding more than $15 billion per week for many consecutive quarters, making us one of the fastest growing companies in fintech. 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 25 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 and Edinburgh, Scotland.

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

We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join our Investment Management Products team. Our team is focused on building outstanding user experiences, powerful APIs, and sophisticated analysis and visualization tools for our global customer base of Financial Advisors and Wealth Managers. Engineers at Addepar collaborate across the organization to build innovative and scalable solutions to some of our customers' biggest problems. We partner closely with a team of designers and product managers, and put the experiences of our users at the forefront of every initiative.

Our products are rapidly being adopted across the Wealth Management industry, and as we modernize and upgrade our core product, we are also using our APIs to build out entirely new products and features. We pride ourselves on delivering robust, secure, and highly usable applications, built with an excellent attention to detail and industry knowledge. Product engineers are key drivers of our innovative and ambitious product development roadmap in collaboration with our business leaders, product managers and customers.

The Calculations team builds sophisticated financial math functions into Addepar, with an emphasis on scalability and performance. Our algorithms comprise the foundation of the analytics platform

• Work with product managers to specify how financial calculations will be incorporated into Addepar.
• Profile and tune the performance of algorithms operating on billions of transactions and securities.
• Collaborate on architecture designs, product features, and code reviews
• Own software features from inception through delivery

• 2+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
• Experience with server-side languages like Java, Python, or C++, relational databases (MySQL, Postgres), and REST API Design
• Passion for creating high quality software products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bonus: Experience with building scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Bonus: Experience or curiosity about financial products or wealth management

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.