Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. The company is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join the Calculation Engines team, responsible for designing and building distributed microservice components and scaling the Java-based calculation engine to handle larger workloads.

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

Skills

• 3+ years of software engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience with Object Oriented programming languages
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to explore complex problems 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
• Linux proficiency, basic shell scripting and a solid grasp of systems level programming is a plus

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits

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