Staff Software Engineer - Trading
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Who We Are</strong></span></p> <p>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 1,500 firms in 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $10 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and levels of complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, São Paulo, London, Edinburgh, Geneva, Warsaw, Dubai, Pune and Singapore.</p></div><h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Role</strong></span></h4> <p>We are currently seeking a highly experienced Backend Software Engineer with a strong Java background to join our Trading suite of products—including Rebalancing, Order Management System (OMS), and Investment Book of Record (IBOR).</p> <p>We’re building a scalable, tax-efficient trading & rebalancing platform for wealth management firms of all sizes. The platform will target sophisticated rebalancing strategies across equities, mutual funds and fixed income products and send trades to be completed in the market. </p> <p>You will <strong>play a significant role in driving complex, long-term technical designs</strong> from concept to delivery, ensuring our solutions are scalable, resilient, and secure. You will leverage your deep expertise in software design patterns and distributed systems to solve challenging problems and pioneer the adoption of new technologies. While you will educate and empower other engineers, this is fundamentally a hands-on technical leadership role where you will work closely with product and design teams to deliver exceptional products for our clients.</p> <p>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 <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_1mT5xdRAKS"><span class="_0nmozVaHVx _2V7sgO2M4S _3BoeIDwZ7G _30zrXRyxdf _0ReiIH7zJH" data-testid="definition-highlighter">H-1B</span></span></span>, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_1mT5xdRAKS"><span class="_0nmozVaHVx _2V7sgO2M4S _3BoeIDwZ7G _30zrXRyxdf _0ReiIH7zJH" data-testid="definition-highlighter">F-1</span></span></span>/OPT, or similar), and must be authorized to begin work in the U.S. on their first day of employment.</p> <h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></h4> <ul> <li>Architect, implement, and maintain engineering solutions to solve complex problems; write well-designed, testable code.</li> <li>Lead individual project priorities, deadlines, and solutions.</li> <li>Collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, and partners on projects.</li> <li>Active support of business needs during US hours.Act as an engineering representative to the client and product support and steer communications from engineering standpoints.</li> <li>Communicate technical ideas and set direction on projects with a focus on solving business challenges.</li> <li>Mentor other engineers on the team.</li> <li>Participate in the design and development of a strategic product for Addepar.</li> <li>Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code th