Private Equity Engineering Lead

New York · USD 170,000-190,000 · 3+ years experience · Posted Oct 14, 2026

At a glance

As Vice President, Engineering Lead, you will own the engineering of a new private equity middle and back office platform end to end.
You will lead a small, senior team of [3-4] engineers as a player-coach, spending 40-60% of your time designing, writing and reviewing code.

Lead, mentor and develop a team of senior software and data engineers.
Own the architecture and the build: the canonical data model, the calculation and capital-activity engine, and the integration layer around them.
Stay hands-on by writing production code on critical-path components, authoring and chairing design reviews, and personally reviewing all calculation, reconciliation and controls logic.
Lead the migration off legacy end to end: data migration, parallel run, cutover, rollback planning and decommissioning.
Orchestrate partner teams as one delivery program with a shared roadmap, visible dependency board, and joint operating rhythm.
Partner with fund accounting, fund operations, finance, treasury, valuation, investor reporting, tax and compliance to cut cycle times and manual effort.
Build controls in by design and set engineering standards for CI/CD, testing, observability and incident management.
Apply AI selectively to document extraction and reconciliation-exception triage with evaluation sets and human approval.
Report progress to technology and business leadership against a clear metrics scorecard.

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading an engineering team, mentoring, planning and managing performance.
A track record of building complex, multi-component systems from the ground up, including designing and shipped transactional or calculation-heavy systems in a domain where accuracy and auditability matter.
Current hands-on proficiency in Python and SQL, building production systems and data pipelines on AWS.
Sound architectural judgement in API and event-driven integration, maintaining a clear line between owned and consumed data.
Experience leading at least one migration off a legacy system through parallel run, cutover and actual decommissioning.
Experience delivering work that depended on several other teams including non-engineering partners, external vendors, and core platforms belonging to others.
Ability to explain technical trade-offs to controllers or operations leads in plain terms.

Familiarity with private-markets fund accounting and operations concepts: capital calls and distributions, waterfalls and carried interest, partnership allocations, NAV, management fees, and ABOR systems.
Exposure to fund administrator data feeds, investor reporting (ILPA templates), valuation (ASC 820 / IPEV) or treasury and bank connectivity.
Experience with Snowflake, PySpark and workflow orchestration (Kestra, Argo or similar), and with reference-data or bitemporal modeling.
Background in ledgers and payments, securities operations, insurance policy administration, or finance and ERP system builds.
Practical experience applying LLMs to document extraction or exception handling, with evaluation and controls.