Director of Engineering

About Us

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 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software, data, and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, Geneva, Singapore, and São Paulo.

About the Role

We are currently seeking a Director of Engineering for our Institutions Engineering Team. You will assume engineering leadership over our investor solutions and research product suite and take ownership of technology delivery across our Institutional segment and sophisticated investor product offerings. You’ll lead a multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, platform architects, and engineering managers. The ideal candidate brings strong technical depth in scalable cloud-native systems alongside proven leadership in scaling engineering teams and executing complex product roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering organization dedicated to the Institutional segment.
• Establish clear engineering goals, operational metrics, and delivery standards aligned with company objectives and create a high-performing engineering culture.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design leadership to drive Addepar strategy across all of our engineering organizations.
• Drive the technical vision, coordination, and delivery across all products and solutions within our Institutional segment.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Design, and GTM to define, prioritize, and execute product roadmaps.
• Implement robust Agile software development practices to ensure predictable, high-quality, and timely releases.
• Guide architectural decisions to ensure scalable, secure, and resilient system design suitable for institutional security and compliance standards.
• Champion engineering best practices, including automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and robust monitoring/observability platforms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of engineering leadership experience with a track record of managing managers, architects, and software engineers.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise/institutional software platforms with stringent security, regulatory, and uptime requirements.
• Deep familiarity with modern cloud architecture, microservices, API design, data pipelines, and enterprise security frameworks.
• 5+ years experience with financial risk frameworks and asset management in either a SaaS environment or financial institutions.

Pay

The current range for this role is $214,000 - $335,000 (base salary) + bonus + equity + benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target base salary for roles in Colorado, California, and New York. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Benefits

In addition to base salary, this role includes bonus, equity, and benefits.

Work Authorization

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.

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.

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.