Addepar
0 open Forward Deployed Engineer roles at Addepar, plus 1 closed. Curated with comp bands.
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Our take
Why Addepar
One of the stickiest FDE verticals there is — wealth-tech data nobody re-platforms twice — offered as a rare remote seat, at a rare-for-FDE below-market base.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Remote-first
- Comp
- Below market
- Stage
- Late-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Engineers who want genuinely fully-remote (US) deployment work
- People who like wrangling messy portfolio and custodial data for demanding clients
- Candidates who weight vertical durability and equity over headline cash
- Those drawn to a mature, late-stage platform over a green-field build
The platform under $7 trillion in assets
Addepar is a wealth-management data platform used by RIAs and family offices; by 2024 it tracked roughly $7 trillion in assets across about 1,200 client firms, ingesting data daily from more than 7 million accounts and 250,000+ unique alternative-investment positions. The FDE's job is pushing that platform deeper into client workflows — which in wealth-tech means taming portfolio and custodial data that was never designed to reconcile cleanly.
What “forward deployed” means in wealth-tech
True forward-deployed work, but remote-first — unusual for a role that usually pulls you on-site. Wealth management is one of the stickiest FDE verticals precisely because the data is hard and clients don't re-platform twice; deployments run deep and long rather than fast. You're building integrations, data models, and custom workflows on top of the portfolio platform, not standing up throwaway demos.
Comp: the below-market base is the headline
The posted base band is $107K–$168K plus bonus and equity — below the lab and infra FDE bands, and low enough that it's the first thing a candidate should weigh. Addepar frames pay as market-based and leans on remote flexibility and equity to close the gap. For FDEs comparing offers on cash alone, this reads below-market for the function.
A late-stage company, not a startup bet
Addepar raised a $230M Series G in May 2025 at a $3.25B valuation (co-led by Vitruvian Partners and WestCap), bringing total funding to about $790M on an estimated $275M of 2024 revenue. This is a mature company expanding a proven product, so the seat is a durable-vertical bet rather than a ground-floor equity lottery.
What the single remote req signals
One remote-US opening is an expansion into RIA and family-office workflows, not a stand-up-the-org moment. The upside is a sticky vertical and real remote flexibility; the tradeoff is the cash base and joining an established motion rather than defining one. Average revenue per client (around $229K in 2024) tells you these are deep, long-lived deployments, not quick installs.
Questions candidates ask
Is this role really fully remote?
Yes — it's posted as remote from anywhere in the US, which is unusual for forward-deployed work. Wealth-tech deployments lean on data and video rather than on-site presence, so Addepar can run the function remotely.
Why is the base pay lower than other FDE roles?
The posted base is $107K–$168K plus bonus and equity, below lab and infra FDE bands. Addepar trades on remote flexibility, equity, and a mature, stable platform rather than top-of-market cash.
What kind of data will I actually work with?
Messy portfolio, custodial, and alternative-investment data — the platform tracks 250,000+ unique alt positions and ingests from 7M+ accounts. The deployment work is largely reconciling and modeling that data into something clients can report on.
Is Addepar a stable place to land?
It's late-stage and well-capitalized: roughly $790M raised, a $3.25B valuation from its May 2025 Series G, about $275M in 2024 revenue, and around 1,200 client firms. This is a durable vertical, not a startup gamble.
Analysis updated 2026-10-12
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