layiq

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worthy; deserving; fitting; suitable.

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LAYIQ - Private Equity Engineering Lead at KKR, New York, NY

Required
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. You have designed and shipped transactional or calculation-heavy systems in a domain where accuracy and auditability matter, and you can explain how you proved correctness.
Current hands-on proficiency in Python and SQL, building production systems and data pipelines on AWS. You expect to spend 40–60% of your time coding and reviewing, and you want that.
Sound architectural judgement: API and event-driven integration, a clear line between data you own and data you consume, and examples of decisions you made early on versus ones you deferred.
Experience leading at least one migration off a legacy system through parallel run, cutover and actual decommissioning.
You have delivered work that depended on several other teams including non-engineering partners (operations, finance), external vendors and at least one project where a core platform belonged to someone else.
You can explain a technical trade-off to a controller or an operations lead in plain terms. Collaborative, low ego, with a strong sense of ownership for outcomes and system health.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field preferred, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred
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, comparable domains where correctness is non-negotiable.
Practical experience applying LLMs to document extraction or exception handling, with evaluation and controls.
TECH STACK
AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora), Python (FastAPI), React, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Redis, Kestra (job scheduling), PySpark (ETL / medallion model), with AI-assisted development tools used across the SDLC. Integration with fund accounting, administrator, treasury and reporting systems through APIs, events and managed file transfer.

Private Equity Engineering Lead

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