Sr. Engineering Manager, Precompute

About the role

The Precompute Platform Lead will own and scale Addepar's precompute layer, which pre-calculates financial analytics to improve query latency and concurrency. This role involves leading the evolution of the platform from targeted use cases to a performance layer, solving complex problems in distributed systems and vector-oriented programming. You will partner with product and engineering leadership to define roadmaps and meet performance KPIs for enterprise-scale wealth management clients.

Responsibilities

• Own the precompute platform roadmap in partnership with Product and engineering leadership, defining and meeting aggressive performance KPIs for daily processing, incremental processing, and query latency across enterprise clients
• Architect, implement, and maintain engineering solutions to solve sophisticated problems; reduce complexity through the adoption of strategic data architecture and workflows
• Drive integration with core compute infrastructure, growing the share of query traffic served through the precompute layer
• Continue global region support, building a repeatable architecture that scales across Addepar's multi-region deployment
• Drive deeper vectorisation of the calculation layer, moving compute-intensive factor math from row-by-row execution into the columnar engine for step-change throughput improvements
• Improve team efficiency by engaging with operational partners
• Drive Data Governance outcomes by integrating Data Publisher Responsibilities into precompute data creation workflows and achieving Data Health indicators for precompute artifacts

Required skills

• Software engineering
• Data platform
• Performance engineering
• Distributed systems
• Vector-based data processing
• AWS
• Databricks
• Kubernetes
• Data Governance

Nice to have

• Finance domain knowledge
• Wealth management domain knowledge

Qualifications

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Mathematics, Statistics, or similar numerate field
• Equivalent practical experience

About the Company

Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. The company unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows.