Lead Software Developer - SF

Jordan Park provides comprehensive investment and financial advice to a targeted community of individuals, families, and institutions. Our clients have made extraordinary contributions to business, philanthropy, government, and society. We are empathetic problem solvers with depth and diversity of experience. We embrace complexity, shoulder problems, and navigate challenges to empower clients to achieve their optimal outcomes. Our mission is to enhance lives and legacies.

Lead Software Developer

San Francisco, California

We are looking for an exceptional software engineer in San Francisco to support the growth of our investment advisory firm. This is an opportunity to work alongside individuals who are united by a strong sense of teamwork, service, and excellence. Our hallmarks of responsiveness, availability, dependability, and competency are among our highest priorities.

About The Role

This lead software developer position reports to the Head of Investment Strategy. The individual would be a member of the Investment Strategy Team, which is responsible for top-down portfolio construction and asset allocation, for macroeconomic and capital markets research, and for portfolio implementation and rebalancing using our proprietary client portfolio management products. These products are used to rebalance portfolios, generate portfolio analytics, and monitor portfolios.

This individual will use their depth of experience in software engineering and design to enhance these products to add new functionality and solve challenging future problems. The individual will maintain and upgrade the application code as well as the web UI, striving for a balance between responsiveness and reliability of our applications. The role also involves mentoring and coaching junior members of the investment technology team.

About You

You are excited to work on a small fast-moving team that is continuously building new products and features while supporting daily investment processes that are critical to the firm’s investment platform and investment operations. You are interested in working throughout the stack, and place equal importance on both front-end and back-end development projects. You display an ownership mentality, possessing a combination of an entrepreneurial attitude along with the knowledge and experience needed to design and build highly robust and flexible systems. You take a pragmatic rather than dogmatic approach to your work. You are comfortable taking initiative and being self-directed while also highly capable of collaborating closely with peers and with junior team members. You communicate well with teammates who have technical backgrounds as well as with those on the business side. Your qualifications include:

• Degree in a related field, such as computer science, computer systems, engineering, etc.
• 5-10 years of software engineering experience, including 2-3 years of leading software development projects
• Strong Python programming experience with expertise in pandas
• Knowledge of Dash or Flask a strong plus
• Experience with AWS, Airflow, git, bash, and Jira a strong plus
• Experience supporting critical production systems
• Willingness to contribute throughout the stack, including work on UI projects
• Strong project management and verbal and written communication skills
• Discreet in handling sensitive and confidential information
  
  

Additional desirable qualities and experience:

• Experience with SQL and ETL processes
• Understanding of Postgres database management and administration
• Familiarity with Addepar and Salesforce
  
  

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation at Jordan Park includes a base salary, discretionary year-end bonus, benefits and other perks. We apply a total reward philosophy when determining compensation terms.

The expected base salary for this role in San Francisco, California will range from $150,000 - $250,000 per year commensurate with experience, job-related skills, relevant education, licenses and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

Our benefits package includes:

• Medical, dental & vision insurance – 100% of premium covered for employees
• 401k participation with employer contribution
• Generous paid time off
• Commuter benefits program (pre-paid tax dollars towards your commute)
• Fitness Reimbursement
• Annual Professional Development and Mindfulness Stipend
  
  

We are empathetic problem solvers and subject matter experts, committed to serving clients at the highest level of trust and partnership. Our hallmarks of responsiveness, availability, dependability, and competency are our highest priorities.

Jordan Park is always seeking great talent. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition or disability. We comply with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Jordan Park is an SEC-registered investment adviser (RIA).