Lead Software Developer

###Hamilton Lane is looking to expand our team to satisfy the needs of our growing client base. Hamilton Lane is built on collaboration, teamwork and integrity. Our employees pursue excellence and always strive to do the right thing. We invest in our employees, clients and partner relationships, as well as, in the technology and resources necessary to remain competitive, working in a competitive environment that inspires innovation.
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* What we do:

** As a recognized leader in providing Private Markets Solutions to clients across the globe, we manage approximately $145.6B in discretionary assets under management an d $859.8B in non-discretionary assets under management, as of 9/30/2025.
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* The Opportunity:

** This role will engage across a full featured software design lifecycle to deliver direct value to internal and external technology solutions. The primary product under development, Cobalt () is an industry leading diligence and analytics platform for the private markets. This opportunity is a software development focused role to join an entrepreneurial spirited team set within a successful, supportive and innovate market leader.

At Hamilton Lane, we are dedicated to delivering technology-driven solutions to our clients and your work will be directly and responsively visible.

We hire with the anticipation that all team members contribute across our entire technology stack. We seek skill, aptitude, drive to learn and culture fit. Your energy and drive to tackle new challenges with autonomy in a collaborative team environment will foster foundations for strong tailwinds in this mid-career position. Ownership, stewardship and leadership are keys to success in this role.
** Your responsibilities will be to:
*** Collaborate with other team members across product, QA and development teams as well as business stakeholders to implement new features, enhancements and improvements to our platform.
* Bring projects from initial concept through all cycles of development: from project definition, development, debugging, release and iteration.
* Build sound solutions ensuring scalability, extensibility and maintainability.
* Operate with integrity and work collaboratively with peers and juniors in an open and supportive environment.
* Master and architect domain knowledge of how disparate services and sub-processes of our data and code paths interlink and function.
* Protect and maintain our data model to best leverage our multi-data source environment.
* Deliver meaningful value and progress through a rigorous software design lifecycle within an Agile Scrum framework.
* Document and closeout sprint tickets professionally with attention to detail.
** Your background will include:
***** Must-haves:
**** Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Computer Science or similar technical discipline or equivalent work experience. (4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor's) (Minimum Required)
* 9+ years of experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer or similar roles utilizing open-source technologies.
* Strong experience with Python, Java script and/or other object-oriented languages.
* Strong software engineering fundamentals including object-oriented design, data structures, testable code and algorithms.
* Proclivity towards refactoring and continuously improving object-oriented code through Agile development methods.
* Comfort with full stack software development, including computationally intense backend development and service design, data storage and access models and modern frameworks.
* Experience in these tools and packages:  + Python:
Flask, SQL Alchemy, Celery  + Java script:
React  + Databases:
Postgres, ORMs  + Keyed Storage:
Redis  + Development tools:
Git, Docker, Jenkins
*** Nice-to-haves:
**** Experience in a SaaS-based product and comfort working effectively in a corporate setting.
* B2B financial service or alternative asset management experience.
** Benefits:
** At Hamilton Lane, our benefits philosophy is simple: to provide our employees with a competitive suite of benefits and services to help navigate through the complexities and challenges of working, living, raising a family, and eventually retiring.

To do this, Hamilton Lane offers the following benefits:
** Enhancing Your Physical and Emotional Health
** Employees have access to healthcare coverage, mental health resources, health & fitness reimbursement program, and Wellness Rewards Program.
** Developing Your Career
** Tuition and certification reimbursement programs are available, along with continual education and development trainings for you to grow with Hamilton Lane.
** Supporting Your Family & Community
** For our communities, Hamilton Lane provides paid time off to volunteer and compensates for referring qualified candidates that join our team.

For growing family, we offer an adoption reimbursement program, paid time off for new parents and newlyweds, and provide travel support for nursing parents.
** Safeguarding Your Financial Wellbeing
** Hamilton Lane…