Forward Deployed Engineer
Description For Forward Deployed Engineer
Addepar, a leading global technology and data company managing over $7 trillion in assets, is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join their team. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of engineering and client solutions, partnering directly with enterprise clients to build custom integrations and extend platform capabilities.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll operate with significant autonomy in small teams, leading client interactions and delivering mission-critical projects. The role combines technical expertise with client-facing responsibilities, requiring both strong engineering skills and the ability to understand and translate client needs into technical solutions.
The position requires 2+ years of software engineering experience and proficiency in object-oriented programming languages like Java or Python, or compiled languages like Go, Rust, or Scala. You'll be working with both relational and NoSQL databases, and experience with distributed systems is a plus.
What makes this role particularly exciting is its impact on both product development and client success. You'll not only build solutions for specific client needs but also contribute to Addepar's core product development, helping shape the platform's evolution. The role offers competitive compensation ($107,000 - $168,000 base salary) plus bonus and equity, with the flexibility of remote work.
Addepar's global presence, with offices across major financial and tech hubs including Silicon Valley, New York, London, and Dubai, provides exposure to international markets and diverse challenges. The company's platform integrates with over 100 software, data, and services partners, offering opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies and solve complex problems in the investment management space.
This role is ideal for engineers who want to combine technical depth with business impact, working directly with clients while contributing to a platform that helps manage and analyze over $7 trillion in assets globally.
Responsibilities For Forward Deployed Engineer
- Partner directly with key technical & strategic counterparts at Addepar's largest enterprise engagements
- Build custom data integrations and extend platform capabilities
- Work in small teams with minimal supervision to set priorities
- Lead client interactions
- Be responsible for end-to-end delivery of critically important projects
- Turn lessons learned into scalable and repeatable long term solutions
- Collaborate with teams across engineering and product organization
- Contribute directly to the core product code base
Requirements For Forward Deployed Engineer
- 2+ years experience as a professional Software Engineer
- Proficiency with one or more object-oriented programming language (Java and/or Python preferred) and/or compiled language (Go, Rust, Scala preferred)
- Experience building systems with Relational or NoSQL database storage
- BS+ in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics or other highly technical field paired with software industry experience
- Ability to lead complex projects, relationships and timelines
- Experience in one or more strongly typed server side programming language (ex: Java, C++) (Plus)
- Experience with distribution storage & execution frameworks (ex. Arrow, Spark, Flink, Storm) (Plus)
Benefits For Forward Deployed Engineer
- bonus
- equity
- benefits package
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