Senior Software Engineer, AlphaSense
CA$135-165k
Market intelligence and search platform
Open for applications
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$135-165k
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organize the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software development experience building highly reliable, mission-critical software
- A strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, such as algorithmic complexity, asynchronicity, and distributed computing
- Good Knowledge on design and architecture concepts
- Familiarity with Agile software development processes and software testing
- Experience in shipping pragmatic and high quality solutions with a sense of urgency
- Ability and desire to work in an open and team-oriented environment
- Excitement to learn from and work with experts in other disciplines
- Have a strong sense of ownership, a sense of humor and strong collaboration skills
- Experience with Python, Typescript, AWS is a plus
- A background or interest in financial modeling, financial technology, or capital markets is a plus but not mandatory
What the job involves
- At AlphaSense, the FinData team is leading the effort to build robust ingestion data pipelines and services that power our platform with fundamentals and reported data coming from various sources
- Our diverse Product & Engineering team values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous improvement of our platform
- We offer a dynamic work environment where employees can grow and thrive while working on cutting-edge technology that shapes the future of our platform
- At AlphaSense, we believe that diverse experiences and perspectives are critical to our success
- We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves
- We’re looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our FinData team
- This is an opportunity to work on different challenges at all levels of our stack, designing, implementing, testing, maintaining, and improving features and services
- You’ll have the autonomy to own and operate applications and services that you build while focusing on collaborative delivery over independent efforts
- Designing, building, delivering and operating high-quality (reliable and intuitive to use) software systems, collaboratively with your cross functional team
- Belief in uneventful and predictable code releases, and an expectation that they happen many times each day, supported by robust Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines and extensive test coverage
- Keep quality standards high. Ensure steady progress on the roadmap to reach acceptance by Product Management and Design
- Participate in design and definition discussions, and in documentation. Through regular collaboration with your Product Management and Design counterparts about requirements, projects, scoping and estimation
- Guiding and coaching less experienced developers in their approach to debugging, design and application of various software development paradigms
- Building relationships and communicating effectively with other parts of the company (the rest of Engineering, Product Management, Equity Research, Marketing and Sales)
- Reports to: Engineering Manager
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain : financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it is now setting its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Customer obsession - We measure ourselves against a simple yardstick: do our clients rave about us?
- Passion for product - Building a powerful yet simple and beautiful product is in our DNA
- Results - We value execution and outcomes over appearance and office politics. It’s that simple
- Diversity of perspective - Great ideas come from everywhere and anywhere
- Think big - We believe AlphaSense can change the game, and possibly the world
- Ownership - As owners of AlphaSense, it’s everyone’s job to ensure we do great work - and to always look for opportunities to do better
- Acceleration - We’re a fast-growing and fast-moving company. Do it, iterate, and try again
- Trust - We trust our colleagues to do what’s right and what’s best for the company
- Teamwork - Helping our colleagues succeed always comes first. We are serious about our work - and have fun too
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
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Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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