Head of Application Engineering

Join Hamilton Lane a global leader in private markets as we scale to meet the demands of our growing client base. Here youll work with ambitious highperforming teams built on integrity candor and collaboration backed by our market-leading data and technology. We invest heavily in our people and our partners giving you the platform to enrich lives safeguard futures and grow your career.

What We Do
As one of the largest private markets investment firms globally we provide innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world specializing in flexibility and full-spectrum access. We currently employ approximately 800 professionals operating in offices throughout North America Europe Asia Pacific and the Middle East and have $1.0 trillion in assets under management and supervision composed of $146.1 billion in discretionary assets and $871.5 billion in non-discretionary assets as of December 31 2025.

The Opportunity:

The Head of Application Engineering will serve as a senior execution leader responsible for the continued growth delivery reliability quality and engineering operating discipline of Hamilton Lanes Cobalt platform and other application initiatives. This leader will oversee application engineering DevOps/platform operations QA engineering and testing while partnering closely with product and executive leadership to ensure strong execution across the full software development lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will be low-ego highly accountable technically credible and experienced leading in a scaled engineering environment. This is an exciting opportunity to join an entrepreneurial team set within a successful supportive and innovative market leader. At Hamilton Lane we are dedicated to delivering technology-driven solutions to our clients and this role will directly influence a product that is strategically important to the firm and growing rapidly.

Cobalt is an industry-leading diligence and analytics platform for the private markets. As a multi-tenant SaaS platform serving both external clients and internal users globally Cobalt requires strong leadership across engineering execution platform operations quality and team development. Ownership communication stewardship leadership and delegation are keys to success in this role.

Your responsibilities will be to:

• Lead a global multi-disciplinary engineering organization across application engineering DevOps/platform operations QA engineering and testing.
• Own end-to-end engineering execution for Cobalt including delivery reliability quality and engineering operating discipline.
• Set engineering direction in partnership with product and executive leadership ensuring alignment between business priorities architecture delivery plans and operating outcomes.
• Provide leadership on decisions related to architecture SDLC quality practices release discipline and production operations.
• Build lead and develop a high-performing team across onshore offshore in-office and hybrid environments.
• Lead through and mentor senior individual contributors creating clarity accountability transparency and execution rigor across the organization.
• Expand the scope of the engineering team execution over time to support application development around and beyond the core Cobalt product as firm priorities evolve.
• Partner closely with business stakeholders and cross-functional leaders to manage expectations communicate progress and deliver strong outcomes.
• Foster a strong engineering culture centered on ownership collaboration continuous improvement and high standards.
• Collaborate with organizational leaders to ensure operations and technology decisions support scale stability and thoughtful budget management.
• Operate with integrity and work collaboratively with peers and team members in an open supportive environment.

Your background will include:

Must-haves:

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Computer Science or similar technical discipline or equivalent work experience.
• 10 years of experience in software development or related technology leadership roles.
• Significant experience recruiting leading and developing high-performing engineering teams including distributed and multi-level organizations.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering teams responsible for software development platform/DevOps operations and quality engineering in a SaaS-based environment.
• Strong software engineering background with the technical credibility to guide architecture and engineering decisions.
• Deep understanding of software architecture SDLC engineering quality practices operational excellence and scalable delivery processes.
• Experience operating and scaling mission-critical external-facing software platforms with high availability expectations.
• Proven ability to partner effectively with product leaders executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams in a corporate setting.
• Strong leadership communication stewardship and delegation skills.

Tools and Packages:

• Python: Flask SQLAlchemy Celery
• Javascript: React
• Databases: Postgres ORMs
• Keyed Storage: Redis
• Development tools: Git Docker Jenkins
  

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in B2B financial services alternative asset management or related industries.
• Experience in a scaled software start-up or similarly fast-paced product environment.
• Experience leading engineering organizations supporting products with global users and 24/7 availability expectations.

Travel Requirements:

• No travel is required.

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.

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.

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