Staff Backend Engineer, Distributed File Platform

Addepar, Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 158,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Addepar, Inc. seeks a staff software engineer to join the Files Platform team, building the enterprise file management platform with distributed systems and secure access controls. You will tackle event-driven architectures and latency SLAs while collaborating with product, security, and compliance on sensitive data access.

Strong backend experience and CS degree are required, with AWS as a bonus. Join a team designing solutions that scale from small firms to the largest wealth managers and help

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, or C++ and relational databases (MySQL/Postgres/SQL Server).
• Ability to lead complex projects across teams and strong communication.
• Bonus: experience with building scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain backend services for enterprise-scale file management and third-party integrations.
• Design event-driven systems and ensure real-time permission propagation across systems.
• Collaborate with product, security, and compliance on sensitive data access controls.
• Contribute to migration efforts with zero-downtime rollouts for production firms.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Explore AI-powered capabilities for intelligent file processing and metadata extraction.

Skills

Backend experience

CS degree

Java / Python / C++

Relational databases

Team collaboration

Communication skills

AWS experience

Education

B.S. or M.S. in CS

Tools

AWS

Job description

Addepar, Inc. seeks a staff software engineer to join the Files Platform team, building the enterprise file management platform with distributed systems and secure access controls. You will tackle event-driven architectures and latency SLAs while collaborating with product, security, and compliance on sensitive data access.

Strong backend experience and CS degree are required, with AWS as a bonus. Join a team designing solutions that scale from small firms to the largest wealth managers and help