Senior Software Engineer - Reference Data

Addepar
Edinburgh, UK
2 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£69,000.0 - £109,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Computer Literacy Web Browsers Reference Data Software Engineering Large Language Models Multi-Agent Systems Information Technology Machine Learning Operations Databricks

Job description

  • Drive end-to-end execution and delivery of AI-native products, from prototype through scalable production services.
  • Architect, build, and productionize core AI platform components, including LLMs and related tools, agentic frameworks, and agent capabilities such as MCP, cross-platform tool use, web browsing, and computer use.
  • Uphold technical discipline and operational excellence across AI products.
  • Iterate on AI products using performance metrics and user feedback to support continuous improvement.
  • Lead the evaluation and adoption of AI technologies and frameworks.
  • Partner with product managers and engineering teams to translate strategic goals into technical solutions and make AI capabilities easier to build on.
  • Collaborate with engineering leads to define and implement platform architecture that supports growth and scalability.
  • Evaluate and drive strategic business and technology decisions for our company and customers.
  • Provide technical leadership, education, best practices, and strategic guidance across multiple areas.

Requirements

  • Bachelors or masters degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a similar quantitative or technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Extensive software engineering experience.
  • Proven track record of owning and shipping complex, production-grade systems.
  • Experience shipping and maintaining AI-native products or features, or significant personal AI projects demonstrating strong interest in the field.
  • Strong ownership mindset, with a record of seeing projects through to completion and raising execution standards across a team.
  • Bias for action and passion for shipping rapidly and iterating based on feedback.
  • Preferred: Experience with LLMs and agentic systems.
  • Preferred: Hands-on experience with modern AI/LLM technologies such as Databricks, LangChain, or MLflow.
  • Preferred: Advanced understanding of the probabilistic systems underpinning modern LLMs.
  • Preferred: Experience building AI products in accuracy-sensitive domains such as finance.
  • Must have and maintain the right to work in the United Kingdom from the first day of employment; visa sponsorship is not available.

About the company

We are Addepar, a global data and AI platform that helps investment professionals turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Our platform unifies portfolio, market, and client data and delivers AI-powered insights in investment and client workflows. More than 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use our platform to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets, and our open platform connects with nearly 650 software, data, and consulting partners. We support clients worldwide from offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, Geneva, Singapore, and São Paulo. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with an AI background to join our growing Reference Data team, which manages market-data reconciliation and curation to create a single source of truth across public and alternative investment data products. You will work with product teams to build innovative AI solutions for wealth technology and help deliver robust, scalable, high-performance production systems. Our values are ownership, collaboration, client focus, innovation, and continuous learning. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and belonging, and we provide reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities during the application and interview process and in performing essential job functions.

last updated 39 week of 2026

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