Software Engineer II, Technology Solutions

Hamilton Lane is looking to expand our team to satisfy the needs of our growing client base. Hamilton Lane is built on collaboration, teamwork and integrity. Our employees pursue excellence and always strive to do the right thing. We invest in our employees, clients and partner relationships, as well as, in the technology and resources necessary to remain competitive, working in a competitive environment that inspires innovation.

What we do:

As a recognized leader in providing Private Markets Solutions to clients across the globe we manage approximately $140.9 billion in discretionary assets and have oversight of an additional $845.3 in non-discretionary assets as of June 30, 2025.

The Opportunity:

This role will engage across a full-featured software design lifecycle to deliver direct value to internal and external technology solutions. The primary product under development, Cobalt (www.cobaltlp.com), is an industry leading diligence and analytics platform for the private markets.

This opportunity is a software development focused role to join an entrepreneurial, spirited team set within a successful, supportive, and innovative market leader. As a member of this team, you will contribute to our entire technology stack, providing platform and architectural contributions, mentorship, and best practice guidance, along with cross-team collaboration and communication.

Someone who is successful in this role has the energy and drive to learn and tackle new challenges with autonomy in a highly collaborative environment.

Your responsibilities will be to:  

• Collaborate with other team members across product, QA, and development teams as well as business stakeholders to implement new features, enhancements, and improvements to our platform.
• Bring projects from initial concept through all cycles of development: from project definition, development, debugging, release, and iteration.
• Build sound solutions ensuring scalability, extensibility, and maintainability.
• Operate with integrity and work collaboratively with peers and juniors in an open and supportive environment.
• Develop domain knowledge of how disparate services and sub-processes of our data and code paths interlink and function.
• Become proficiently versed and vested in our data model to best leverage our multi-data source environment.
• Deliver meaningful value and progress through a rigorous software design lifecycle within an Agile Scrum framework.
• Document and closeout sprint tickets professionally, with attention to detail.

Your background will include:

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Computer Science, similar technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
•  3-5+ years of experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer, or similar roles utilizing open-source technologies.  
• Strong experience with object-oriented languages (Such as Python and JavaScript) and software engineering fundamentals including object-oriented design, data structure, testable code, and algorithms.
• Experience with refactoring and continuously improving object-oriented code through Agile development methods is also required.
• Other tools used will include Flask, SQLAlchemy, Celery, React, Postgres, ORMs, Redis, Playwright, Git, Docker, Jenkins, SaltStack, AWS, and Change Release Management (Jira/Github).
• Experience in a SaaS-based product is a plus.
• Familiarity with full stack software development, including computationally intensive backend development and service design, data storage, and access models, and modern framework.
• Experience working in a B2B financial service or alternative asset management environment is a plus.

Benefits:

At Hamilton Lane, our benefits philosophy is simple: to provide our employees with a competitive suite of benefits and services to help navigate through the complexities and challenges of working, living, raising a family, and eventually retiring.

To do this, Hamilton Lane offers the following benefits:

Enhancing Your Physical and Emotional Health 

Employees have access to healthcare coverage, mental health resources, health & fitness reimbursement program, and Wellness Rewards Program.

Developing Your Career

Tuition and certification reimbursement programs are available, along with continual education and development trainings for you to grow with Hamilton Lane.

Supporting Your Family & Community

For our communities, Hamilton Lane provides paid time off to volunteer and compensates for referring qualified candidates that join our team. 

For growing family, we offer an adoption reimbursement program, paid time off for new parents and newlyweds, and provide travel support for nursing parents.  

Safeguarding Your Financial Wellbeing

Hamilton Lane contributes to retirement programs and offers an employee stock purchasing plan.

We offer a competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package which includes: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Paid Time Off, 401k plan, Life and Disability Insurances, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Stock Purchase Program, Health Club Reimbursement and Flexible Spending Accounts.

Hamilton Lane is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other classification prohibited by applicable law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at [email protected].

Hamilton Lane is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Hamilton Lane via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Hamilton Lane. No fee shall be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Hamilton Lane as a result of the referral or through other means.