Staff Software Engineer, AlphaSense
Reference & Entity Data
$198-242k
Market intelligence and search platform
Be an early applicant
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$198-242k
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
- 7+ years of software development experience building highly reliable, mission-critical software
- Strong software engineering skills in back-end engineering on data-intensive applications with professional, real-world experience with applications at scale
- A strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, such as algorithmic complexity, asynchronicity, and distributed computing
- Experience designing large-scale software systems and writing high-quality code and tests, which includes handling error cases, asynchronous code, streaming data, caching, logging and analytics for understanding behavior in production
- Knowledge of modern development practices, including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
- Experience in optimizing the performance and cost of cloud services
- Experience in leading teams and/or projects
- Excellent communication, organizational, problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills
- Ability and desire to work in an open and team-oriented environment
What the job involves
- 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 AI and search
- We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Reference and Entity Data Services mission
- This team builds systems that ingest public and private company data from multiple sources, normalizing, deduplicating, and publishing it to every service at AlphaSense that surfaces company information
- We’re a collaborative group of teams responsible for ensuring data quality, coverage and timeliness for over 9 million companies worldwide
- In the near future, we plan to expand our scope beyond companies to other types of reference data including people, industries, governments, and more
- Our tech stack includes Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and AWS
- As part of our team, you’ll implement new data feed ingestions, integrate reference data with downstream systems, and ensure the health of systems that manage large flows of strategically important data relied upon by tens of thousands of users every day
- Architect, design, and implement highly scalable services that solve complex problems
- Test, review and deploy code quickly. We deploy over 10 times per day and manage major releases with feature flags rather than coordinated deployments
- Research, learn and share new techniques for solving complex engineering problems. We’re a highly collaborative team and we push each other to find better solutions every day
- Write tools and develop practices for the engineering team. From GraphQL-to-Typescript compilers to fully automated deployments, we take the time to invest heavily in our own productivity
- Own projects from end-to-end. On a given day you might be building a system to measure search engine performance, reworking an integration with a third-party provider, or designing the next generation of a data pipeline
- Translate product requirements into software architectures in collaboration with Product Management
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
13% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
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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