Front End Engineer – Design Systems

Who We Are

Addepar is a global technology and data company that helps investment professionals provide the most informed, precise guidance for their clients. Hundreds of thousands of users have entrusted Addepar to empower smarter investment decisions and better advice over the last decade. With client presence in more than 50 countries, Addepar’s platform aggregates portfolio, market and client data for over $8 trillion in assets.

Addepar’s open platform integrates with more than 100 software, data and services partners to deliver a complete solution for a wide range of firms and use cases. Addepar embraces a global flexible workforce model with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, and Geneva.

You’ll join a new part of Addepar’s Web Platform Engineering team, enhancing our existing teams focused on design systems and web application architecture. Your team will be responsible for raising the productivity level of working with a strong group of peers to create a productive monolith web codebase for over 50 contributors across the globe.

Addepar’s design system is at the heart of our product’s growth strategy. Built around pillars of consistency, performance, accessibility, and localization, the Addepar Product Language provides a platform for our product teams as they build new features and iterate on existing codebases.

You’ll work on growing the depth and breadth of our UI platform. To succeed in that goal, you will work in build systems, web components, design token solutions and designer tooling. To understand the challenges and opportunities ahead you’ll need to adapt your skills to new frameworks, tools, and codebases.

Addepar takes a market-based approach to pay. A successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on the role, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target base salary for roles in Colorado, California, and New York.

The current range for this role is $107,000 – $168,000 (base salary) + bonus + equity + benefits.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Additionally, these ranges reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

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.

• Partner with engineers, designers and product owners to deliver high performing customer experiences that are engaging, purposeful and powerful in their simplicity
• Tackle the challenge of building a global product, and a global team
• Implement the common building blocks of Addepar’s user experience, and support their adoption across the product engineering organization
• Create interfaces that are accessible, that work for a global user base, which perform well, and which deliver a great user experience
• Advocate for best practices and process improvements

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or similar technical field of study (or equivalent practical experience)
• 3+ years experience as a professional software engineer
• A passion for establishing and evangelizing best practices
• A bias toward smart automation
• Proven ability to collaborate with other engineers and designers
• 3+ years of experience with other Type Script or JavaScript frameworks such as Ember.js, React, etc.
• Previous experience with Stencil, Tailwind
  
  CSS, and Web Components is a significant plus
• Experience building scalable systems, modeling financial data, or building intuitive, feature-rich user interfaces
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

• 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’…