Lead Software Engineer, Preqin
Platform
£100-120k
2+ days a week in office
Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.
Job no longer available
Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£100-120k
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To revolutionise the private markets with data, insights and tools that help industry professionals make more informed decisions.
Role
Who you are
- You possess strong technical ability across the full stack: C# and .NET core, python, REACT.JS and Postgres are our main technologies, with AWS as our cloud provider
- You have deep knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines (including secrets management) and container orchestration software such as Kubernetes
- You’ve occupied positions of influence (or always found yourself being the got to person) and are able to demonstrate the experience of setting and owning direction for others to follow
- You have an engineering and customer focused mindset, understanding that delivering value is more than just building excellent solutions and requires incremental and continuous feedback
- You know that generating positive outcomes requires knowledge of the customer, other dev teams and the problem space to allow effective use of your technical knowledge ability
What the job involves
- Working in the platform team you will be responsible for the technical excellence of our platform services, shaping, collaborating and creating new and changing existing implementations as necessary to raise the bar technically and improve the way we manage our services
- In platform we own some of the business-critical services such as authentication as well as a series of new work streams focused on user management, data management and architectural oversight
- You will also work with technical teams across the business supporting them to build, and implementing yourself, a variety of technological solutions
- The platform team is critical to the success of Preqin’s technology strategy providing the foundations for cross team services and enablement for teams located in other business units
- The team has recently adopted this direction and there is tremendous opportunity to impact the way we do technology at Preqin and helping to contribute to Preqin’s mission to unleash the power of data, increasing transparency in alternative assets and empowering the finance community to make better decisions across the global alternatives market
- Maintain close interaction with other customer facing development teams to provide first class core services that improve the time to value for the business and improve developer experience
- Guide technical design and delivery. From rapid prototyping enabling fast experimentation, to modernising and paying down technical debt
- Focus acutely on quality, setting the example by executing with best practice to deliver well designed and tested solutions
- Drive continuous improvement within working practices, teams and yourself. Participate in cross organisation enablement to ensure teams know their best options for designing and building technical systems
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers, accelerating their technical growth and setting aspirational standards
- Reporting To: Engineering Manager, Engineering
Application process
- Introduction Call (30 Minutes - Telephone Call)
- Manager Call (30 Minutes - Video Call)
- Technical Interview (1.5 hours - Video Call)
- Cultural Interview (1 hour - Video Call)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Preqin is a London-based investment data company empowering the alternative asset market with essential data and insights. Supporting customers throughout the entire investment lifecycle, Preqin provides them with critical information leading to analytical solutions.
Preqin has produced advanced methods of collecting private data for 20 years. Its products allow a customer base of over 200,000 professionals to streamline how they raise capital, source deals and investments, understand performance, and stay informed.
As a global company, Preqin is working with software providers, world-renowned institutions, and industry associations around the globe to build innovative products, tools, and research that helps connect data to critical decisions. It's had a successful history, and will look to continue on a strong growth path ahead.
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14% employee growth in 12 months
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Challenging work
"At Preqin, the work experience is marked by an high level of challenge and intellectual stimulation. The projects I've undertaken have been among..."
Company benefits
- Hybrid workplace & flexible holiday allowance
- Parental leave: maternity & paternity leave policies
- Pension/retirement contributions: contributions are matched up to 10% after 1 year's service (US & UK)
- Subsidized medical insurance
- Bereavement leave
- Annual personal study support allowance of $1,500/£900
- Discounted gym membership (US & UK)
- Access to discount & reward programs
Company values
- Be Customer Obsessed: We exist for our customers. We listen to them and understand their challenges. We design best-in-class data solutions for their success.
- Act with Integrity: We build trust through honesty and transparency. We're committed to doing the right thing for our customers, our company, and each other.
- Own Your Success: We're a high-performance team. We challenge and champion each other in our pursuit of excellence. We never stop learning and strive to become experts in our fields.
- Think Forward: We lead the industry through innovation. We foster collaboration and creativity to solve our clients' next challenge and give them a competitive advantage.
- Make an Impact: We drive postive change as individuals, and as a company. We're passionate about creating a better tomorrow for our industry and our communities.
Company HQ
Victoria, London, UK
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Leadership
Mark O'Hare
(Managing Director)Previously a Manager at The Boston Consulting Group and CEO of Citywatch.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Preqin
- Our company vision is to create an environment where diversity and inclusion are at its core and our differences are valued. An environment where we actively celebrate and support each other, no matter our visible or invisible differences. We believe that every person has the right to work in a safe and welcoming environment and that’s why we commit to being a truly inclusive employer that integrates DEI throughout all of our operations, whilst investing in and empowering our people.
- Launched our DEI Steering Committee in October 2020. They hold sessions regularly to support and guide Preqin’s DEI initiatives, with active leadership from our CEO.
- Workshops, fireside talks and external guest speakers discussing important topics such as, navigating challenges for women in senior leadership, menopause and managing stress.
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