Staff Software Engineer – Enterprise File Platform & AI

Addepar, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 158,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Addepar, Inc. is seeking a staff software engineer to join the Files Platform team to build enterprise file management systems, secure storage, and access controls for wealth-management firms.

You will tackle distributed systems challenges, design event-driven pipelines, and mentor engineers while exploring AI-powered capabilities for metadata extraction and content-aware workflows. This role emphasizes collaboration with product, security, and compliance, with the opportunity to impact clients

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or similar technical field of study.
• Experience with server-side languages like Java, Python, or C++.
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server).
• Ability to complete complex projects involving partners across multiple teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bonus: Experience with building scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Bonus: Working with File System vendors.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain backend services that manage file storage, permissions synchronization, and third-party integrations at enterprise scale — writing well-designed, testable code.
• Design and build event-driven systems for real-time permission propagation across Addepar's financial graph and external storage providers, meeting compliance revocation SLAs.
• Collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, security, and compliance partners on projects involving sensitive data access controls.
• Contribute to migration efforts ensuring zero-downtime rollouts for production firms.
• Mentor other engineers on the team and promote engineering best practices and principles.
• Explore and build AI-powered capabilities for intelligent file processing, automated metadata extraction, and content-aware workflows.
• Evaluate emerging third-party file platform capabilities to expand Addepar's file management offerings.

Skills

Java

Python

C++

Distributed systems

Backend design

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Job description

Addepar, Inc. is seeking a staff software engineer to join the Files Platform team to build enterprise file management systems, secure storage, and access controls for wealth-management firms.

You will tackle distributed systems challenges, design event-driven pipelines, and mentor engineers while exploring AI-powered capabilities for metadata extraction and content-aware workflows. This role emphasizes collaboration with product, security, and compliance, with the opportunity to impact clients