Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) - APIs & Data

Allocate; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; Full time

Job description

About Allocate

Allocate is transforming private market investing by enabling RIAs and family offices to seamlessly discover, model, and manage their private market exposure.

Our platform combines curated fund and co-investment opportunities with institutional-grade infrastructure. Through a single, data-rich digital experience, clients access top-tier opportunities across venture capital, private equity, private credit, and other private asset classes—backed by powerful tracking, analytics, and administration tools.

About the Role

Allocate is looking to add a new Senior Software Engineer II - Backend to the team! There’s a lot for us to build, and we need a developer with a broad skillset who can jump right in to help us lay the technical foundation for the company’s future.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

• Design & implement new features and endpoints in backend APIs

• Design & implement schema changes to support these new features

• Participate in an Agile-based development environment

• Work as part of an independent, cross-functional squad to deliver critical features for our platform

• Build high-quality, scalable, and testable code that will help drive engineering maturity and efficiency

Must Have Experience

• 5+ years of object-oriented software engineering experience (C#, Java, etc)

• 5+ years of experience with SQL-based databases (Postgres ideally)

  • Must understand how to design a schema that will result in a performant application (for example: when to add an index, and to which fields)

• 3+ years C# experience

• 2+ years experience developing REST APIs

• Proficiency with Git and version control systems in general

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, or Cursor, and a demonstrated ability to continuously evaluate and incorporate new tools into your workflow as they emerge

Nice to Haves

• ASP.NET Web API development experience

• Familiarity with basic ORM concepts (such as Dapper, Entity Framework, etc)

• Familiarity with FluentMigrator

• Docker and Docker Compose experience

• AWS ECS/EKS experience

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience

Essential Values & Culture

• Providing our clients with a world-class experience is our number one priority. We obsessively search for ways to improve the experience for our clients and partners. This requires extraordinary response times, proactivity, and ensuring that everything we do, from product strategy to offline communications is a top-tier client experience.

• Challenge convention: Instead of detailing all the reasons why an idea may not work, we constantly question things to determine how a viable idea may be put into motion.

• Commitment to continuous improvement: We find ways to personally scale each day by pushing ourselves up the learning curve.

• Meritocracy, not politics: We place the utmost value on results and rewards through merit, not reward actions driven by political agendas or behavior.

• Civil Discourse is embraced: We believe open, intellectually curious conversations are required to consistently arrive at the best decisions. Respect is paramount in our dealings with one another, but our mission is always to get the right answer collectively, not to be right.

• Embrace technological change: We adopt tools and techniques that make us faster, smarter, and better. We stay open to innovation, especially around AI and automation, and drop outdated methods without hesitation. This includes actively integrating AI-assisted development tools into your daily workflow and staying current as the landscape evolves. Complacency kills progress, we value adaptability and curiosity.

Additional Details:

• Fully Remote Position

• Travel required for offsites

• An in-person interview may be required during the interview process

• A Broadband internet connection required

• Seniority: Mid-level

• Location: All I-9 eligible candidates will be considered

• Salary: $145-175K base, competitive early-stage fintech startup package (salary + bonus + equity)

• Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision. 401(k), and responsible vacation time (PTO)

• Employment: Full-time

• Compliance with Allocate's Code of Ethics is a given for this role.

The base pay offered will be determined based on the candidate's experience, location, skills, training, certifications, education, internal equity, and market data. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. We do not anticipate that candidates hired will begin at the top of the range, though this may occur on a case-by-case basis.