Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience

The posting, as Addepar wrote it

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.

The Role

We are seeking a highly proactive Staff Software Engineer to drive the architecture of our next-generation validation guardrails and spearhead our AI-native developer experience across the organization. This role focuses on architecting engineering workflows across all traditional SDLC stages - Planning, Design, Build, Test, Deploy, and Maintain - into automated, closed-loop system where AI agents and committed markdown artifacts are able to accelerate delivery while keeping human engineers and product managers firmly in control of high-judgement decisions.

As a technical thought leader, you will help lead the design of intelligent frameworks, AI SDLC playbooks, and deterministic guardrails required to modernize our SDLC. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will lead grassroots efforts across engineering teams, navigate technical ambiguitity to advocate for best practices, mentor devleopers and engineer the friction-free internal platform for the future.

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

Technical Leadership & Grassroots Evangelism

• Adoption & Mentorship: Drive bottom-up adoption of AI-native development workflows across product teams by coaching engineers to transition into orchestration of parallel agentic sessions and subagents.
• Cross-Team Alignment: Partner with platform engineers, R&D teams, and security to dismantle traditional handoffs and convert manual sign-off cycles into automated artifact triggers with clear governance boundaries.

AI-Native Lifecycle Architecture

• Artifact-driven workflows: Operationalize markdown-driven artifact piplines to create transparent audit trails from idea to production.
• Deterministic Guardrails & Hooks: Architect deterministic build-time and deployment hooks to serve as safety boundaries behind AI development.
• Automated Code Review & PR pipelines: Integrate AI into PR review loop using structured policies and CI runners to enable agents to conduct multi-pass reviews and

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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.

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