Sr. Backend Software Engineer

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 and São Paulo.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Precompute team within our Core Product Engineering organization.

Our team is focused on building high-performance data and compute infrastructure that powers large-scale analytics, APIs, and downstream product experiences for our global customer base of Financial Advisors and Wealth Managers.

We partner closely with a world-class team of engineers, designers, and product managers, and put system performance, scalability, and reliability at the forefront of every initiative.

Our platform is rapidly evolving to support increasingly complex workloads, and as we modernize our architecture, we are enabling new capabilities through high-throughput data pipelines, efficient compute primitives, and flexible APIs. We pride ourselves on delivering robust, scalable, and highly performant systems.

The Precompute team builds and operates the foundational computation layer that accelerates financial analytics across the platform, with a strong emphasis on vectorisation, parallelism, and distributed processing. Our systems form the backbone of how data is processed and served at scale.

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

Develop and implement core computation and data processing capabilities that align with our product vision within a multi-functional team

Enhance the performance and scalability of our computation platform, processing large volumes of financial data efficiently across distributed systems

Design and build systems that leverage vectorised execution, parallelism, and elastic infrastructure to optimise throughput and latency

Collaborate on architecture designs, performance strategies, and system-level optimisations

Own software features from inception through delivery, with a focus on reliability and efficiency at scale

Who You Are

Extensive experience as a Software Engineer

Experience with server-side languages like Java, Python, or C++

Experience working with data-intensive systems and relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server)

Ability to complete complex projects involving partners across multiple teams

Strong understanding of performance, scalability, and distributed systems concepts

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bonus: Experience working with large-scale distributed or data processing systems

Bonus: Experience with high-performance computing concepts such as vectorisation, parallel execution, or batch/stream processing systems

Bonus: Experience with DuckDB

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.

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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