Art of Automation: Striking a Balance

Building at Addepar

At Addepar, we’re solving complex problems for finance — one of the largest, most impactful industries in the world. We collectively refer to the people designing and developing the underlying platform as our Build team — a name chosen to remind us that we’re creating something new, that our platform…

Rendering 10 Million Items with {{vertical-collection}} and Ember.js

ES Classes in Ember.js

A common data format

Every day we parse financial data from hundreds of sources, including custodial banks, prime brokerages, fund administrators, private banks, and market data vendors. We receive data in a variety of formats: CSVs, TSVs, text files, custom formats — and there are basically as many representations as sources. This variety of…

Retrofitting Position IDs to Addepar Non-Intrusively

Ember CLI Addon Docs: Shared Documentation for the Ember Ecosystem

An Introduction to Engineering @ Addepar

Addepar is tackling problems in one of the most underserved areas of financial tech and we’re doing it at a level of sophistication and scale that few can match. All of our clients, primarily wealth managers, have similar end-goals: to help their own clients plan better for the future and…

Meet the Teams @ Addepar

CompArch CompArch (Computational Architecture) is responsible for…

Bringing the 201 Created team to Addepar

Addepar’s…

How We Interview at Addepar

At Addepar, we’re committed to cracking the hard problem of technical interviewing. We know that to hire the most qualified, best matched candidates, our interview process needs to be engaging, challenging, and fair. When we’re designing our interview process, we ask: How do we gather the right information effectively and…

Our Tech Stack

We’re building the Financial Platform for the world. We have over $750 billion worth of assets on our platform that translates to 1.4 million nodes and 6.3 million edges in our financial graph from 268 thousand accounts. Every day we process hundreds of gigabytes of data from a few hundred…

The Financial Graph

Addepar Form Studies

Guided by a traditional approach to visual research and identity development, the Addepar Design team performed a series of studies to explore how we could translate our logo into a compelling, consistent visual language. We started by breaking the mark into its essential elements — shapes, lines, angles, and…

Migrating Mountains of Mongo Data

Type Workshop

Typography speaks to instinct. Often an unnoticed element, type can serve as the biggest influence in a design because it tends to tell the personality of a piece before the copy’s been read. To share the love of type with the company, Addepar’s Design team hosted an in-house, hands-on workshop…