Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Addepar is a global data and AI platform that helps investment professionals turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. The Staff Software Engineer will design, implement, and maintain enterprise-scale backend services for secure file storage, permissions synchronization, event-driven processing, and third-party integrations, while mentoring engineers and collaborating across product, security, and compliance teams.
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and maintain backend services that manage file storage, permissions synchronization, and third-party integrations at enterprise scale — writing well-designed, testable code
- Design and build event-driven systems for real-time permission propagation across Addepar's financial graph and external storage providers, meeting compliance revocation SLAs
- Collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, security, and compliance partners on projects involving sensitive data access controls
- Contribute to migration efforts (e.g., FileVault to Box, webhook consolidation, folder structure evolution) ensuring zero-downtime rollouts for production firms
- Mentor other engineers on the team and promote engineering best practices and principles
- Explore and build AI-powered capabilities for intelligent file processing, automated metadata extraction, and content-aware workflows
- Evaluate emerging third-party file platform capabilities to expand Addepar's file management offerings
Skills
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without requiring current or future visa sponsorship (for example, employment-based visas such as H-1B, F-1/OPT, or similar), and must be authorized to begin work in the U.S. on their first day of employment
- 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
- B.S., or M.S. in Computer Science or similar technical field of study
- Experience with server-side languages like Java, Python, or C++
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server)
- Ability to complete complex projects involving partners across multiple teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- [Bonus] Experience with building scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS
- [Bonus] Working with File System vendors
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Remote work in the United States
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