Staff Software Engineer - Files 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

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 1,500 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.

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.

The Role

We are currently seeking a staff software engineer to join Addepar's Files Platform team! This team is responsible for Addepar's enterprise file management platform — building the distributed systems that power secure file storage, access control, and third-party integrations for wealth management firms.

In this role, you'll tackle challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and enterprise-scale access control — designing solutions that scale from small advisory firms to the largest wealth managers in the world.

We want people who are excited by hard distributed systems problems: designing idempotent event-driven pipelines and building infrastructure that handles bursty workloads while meeting strict latency SLAs. If you've built systems that reconcile state across service boundaries, worked on event-driven architectures at scale, or are passionate about solving complex authorization and data access problems, join us!

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 H-1B, F-1/OPT, or similar), and must be authorized to begin work in the U.S. on their first day of employment.

What You’ll Do

• 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 (e.g., FileVault to Box, webhook consolidation, folder structure evolution) 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

Who You Are

• 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
• B.S., or 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

Addepar takes a market-based approach to pay. A successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on the role, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target base salary for this role within the United States.

Compensation for this role includes base salary + bonus + equity + benefits.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Additionally, these ranges reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

Base Salary Range

$158,000—$248,000 USD

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.

In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.

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.