Staff Software Engineer - Calculation Engines

We are currently seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Calculation Engines team which operates the critical servers, caching layers, and communication protocols which power Addepar’s financial analytics and reporting product. More than 95% of all Addepar traffic flows through this infrastructure; you will be responsible for the next generation of development, tooling, and CI/CD systems which empower Addepar to serve our clients.

Responsibilities

Design and build distributed microservice components in Addepar’s calculation engine - a data intensive application; Scale our Java-based calculation engine to 100x larger workloads using best-of-breed time series analytics database technologies; Get involved in the decision process to make the best decision to scale with the consideration of data consistency, throughput, speed, operability and cost; Profile and improve system efficiency in a highly concurrent platform

Requirements

7+ years of software engineering or equivalent experience; Experience with Object Oriented programming languages; Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Ability to explore complex problem spaces objectively from multiple points of view, utilizing both legacy tools and modern technologies to drive outcomes; General familiarity with some of the technologies we use: Java, Python, SQL, SQS, relational databases and key-value stores; Kubernetes

Nice to have

Linux proficiency; basic shell scripting; solid grasp of systems level programming

Benefits

bonus; equity; benefits