What are the responsibilities and job description for the Design Systems Engineer position at Addepar?
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 45 countries, Addepar’s platform aggregates portfolio, market and client data for over $7 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 Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, Edinburgh and Pune.
The Role
You’ll join Addepar’s Web Platform Engineering team, and work day-to-day with a cross-functional group to build Addepar’s in-house design system and ensure its successful adoption. Addepar’s design system group is a cross-disciplinary squad across engineering, design and product content domains.
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 $101,000 - $158,000 (base salary) bonus equity benefits.
What You’ll Do
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.
PHISHING SCAM WARNING: Addepar is among several companies recently made aware of a phishing scam involving con artists posing as hiring managers recruiting via email, text and social media. The imposters are creating misleading email accounts, conducting remote “interviews,” and making fake job offers in order to collect personal and financial information from unsuspecting individuals. Please be aware that no job offers will be made from Addepar without a formal interview process. Additionally, Addepar will not ask you to purchase equipment or supplies as part of your onboarding process. If you have any questions, please reach out to TAinfo@addepar.com.
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 45 countries, Addepar’s platform aggregates portfolio, market and client data for over $7 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 Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, Edinburgh and Pune.
The Role
You’ll join Addepar’s Web Platform Engineering team, and work day-to-day with a cross-functional group to build Addepar’s in-house design system and ensure its successful adoption. Addepar’s design system group is a cross-disciplinary squad across engineering, design and product content domains.
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 $101,000 - $158,000 (base salary) bonus equity benefits.
What You’ll Do
- 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 TypeScript or JavaScript frameworks such as Ember.js, React, etc
- Previous experience with Stencil, TailwindCSS, 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’ 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.
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.
PHISHING SCAM WARNING: Addepar is among several companies recently made aware of a phishing scam involving con artists posing as hiring managers recruiting via email, text and social media. The imposters are creating misleading email accounts, conducting remote “interviews,” and making fake job offers in order to collect personal and financial information from unsuspecting individuals. Please be aware that no job offers will be made from Addepar without a formal interview process. Additionally, Addepar will not ask you to purchase equipment or supplies as part of your onboarding process. If you have any questions, please reach out to TAinfo@addepar.com.
Salary : $101,000 - $158,000
