Mid-Level Backend Engineer

Summary

Join AlphaSights' Engineering team in London as a highly talented and driven software engineer. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team, working on a world-leading research platform. Responsibilities include designing solutions, shipping working code (primarily using React, Kotlin, and Postgres), deploying and iterating frequently, and maintaining and troubleshooting services. You will need 3+ years of experience in a similar role, technical expertise in Java or Kotlin, and a proven track record of success. The company offers opportunities for professional development, including an L&D budget for skill enhancement.

Requirements

• You probably have a degree in a STEM subject
• 3+ years of experience working at a similar level in a mature Engineering team
• Technical expertise with Java or Kotlin, and ideally experience with relational databases
• Proven track record – You’ve made a demonstrable impact in your previous roles, standing out from your peers. Highly driven and proactive – you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes
• Meticulous – you hold high standards and have an obsessive attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Design solutions: Define the best technical solutions to business problems, contributing to an architectural vision that will scale up to be the world's leading research platform
• Ship working code: We primarily work with React on the frontend and Kotlin microservices with Postgres on the backend, with some older services written in Ruby on Rails. We’ve always got an eye open to assess new technologies that might improve our stack
• Deploy and iterate: We release frequently to our customers, using CIrcleCI and Spinnaker for CI/CD, and quickly gather feedback in order to inform our next iteration
• Build your competency: You will learn quickly by building market-leading technology with experienced colleagues in a high performance environment. Engineers can also use our L&D budget to fast-track development of specific technical competencies
• Maintenance and troubleshooting: Carefully monitor our services, catching errors before users notice them, diagnosing the root cause and deploying fixes

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with relational databases

Benefits

Engineers can also use our L&D budget to fast-track development of specific technical competencies