Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join AlphaSights' Engineering team in Portugal as a highly talented and driven software engineer. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team, designing and developing solutions using React, Kotlin, and Postgres. Responsibilities include designing solutions, shipping working code, deploying and iterating, building competency, and maintenance and troubleshooting. The ideal candidate possesses a STEM degree or equivalent experience, proven technical expertise in Java or Kotlin with Springboot, and a demonstrable track record of success. This is a remote position exclusively for current Portuguese residents; visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

• Possess a degree in a STEM subject
• Have experience working at a similar level in a mature Engineering team
• Have technical expertise with Java or Kotlin with Springboot, and ideally experience with relational databases
• Demonstrate a proven track record of making a demonstrable impact in previous roles
• Be highly driven and proactive
• Be meticulous and possess 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

Have experience that doesn't match all of the listed areas

Benefits

Remote work