Backend Software Engineer - Platform Services

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 $8 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 New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, and Geneva.

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. Working 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.

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
• Prior backend software engineering experience
• Proficiency in developing with server-side OO languages like Java
• Proficiency with Linux
• Familiarity 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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