Sr. Software Engineer II - Backend (Remote)

About Allocate

Allocate is transforming private market investing by enabling RIAs and family offices to seamlessly discover, model, and manage their private market exposure.

Our platform combines curated fund and co-investment opportunities with institutional-grade infrastructure. Through a single, data-rich digital experience, clients access top-tier opportunities across venture capital, private equity, private credit, and other private asset classes—backed by powerful tracking, analytics, and administration tools.

About the Role

Allocate is looking to add a new Senior Software Engineer II - Backend to the team! There’s a lot for us to build, and we need a developer with a broad skillset who can jump right in to help us lay the technical foundation for the company’s future.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

Design & implement new features and endpoints in backend APIs

Design & implement schema changes to support these new features

Participate in an Agile-based development environment

Work as part of an independent, cross-functional squad to deliver critical features for our platform

Build high-quality, scalable, and testable code that will help drive engineering maturity and efficiency

Must Have Experience

5+ years of object-oriented software engineering experience (C#, Java, etc)

5+ years of experience with SQL-based databases (Postgres ideally)

Must understand how to design a schema that will result in a performant application (for example: when to add an index, and to which fields)

3+ years C# experience

2+ years experience developing REST APIs

Proficiency with Git and version control systems in general

Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, or Cursor, and a demonstrated ability to continuously evaluate and incorporate new tools into your workflow as they emerge

Nice to Haves

ASP.NET Web API development experience

Familiarity with basic ORM concepts (such as Dapper, Entity Framework, etc)

Familiarity with FluentMigrator

Docker and Docker Compose experience

AWS ECS/EKS experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience

Essential Values & Culture

Providing our clients with a world-class experience is our number one priority. We obsessively search for ways to improve the experience for our clients and partners. This requires extraordinary response times, proactivity, and ensuring that everything we do, from product strategy to offline communications is a top-tier client experience.

Challenge convention : Instead of detailing all the reasons why an idea may not work, we constantly question things to determine how a viable idea may be put into motion.

Commitment to continuous improvement : We find ways to personally scale each day by pushing ourselves up the learning curve.

Meritocracy, not politics : We place the utmost value on results and rewards through merit, not reward actions driven by political agendas or behavior.

Civil Discourse is embraced : We believe open, intellectually curious conversations are required to consistently arrive at the best decisions. Respect is paramount in our dealings with one another, but our mission is always to get the right answer collectively, not to be right.

Embrace technological change: We adopt tools and techniques that make us faster, smarter, and better. We stay open to innovation, especially around AI and automation, and drop outdated methods without hesitation. This includes actively integrating AI-assisted development tools into your daily workflow and staying current as the landscape evolves. Complacency kills progress, we value adaptability and curiosity.

Additional Details:

Location: Fully Remote Position (All I-9 eligible candidates will be considered)

Employment: Full-time

Seniority: Mid-level professional

Salary: Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. The expected base salary range for this role is $145,000 to $175,000

Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision. 401(k), and responsible vacation time (PTO)

Travel required for team/department offsites

An in-person interview may be required during the interview process

A Broadband internet connection required

Compliance with Allocate's Code of Ethics is a given for this role.