Staff Engineer

Summary

Join AlphaSense's User Activities team as a Technical Leader, driving the development of collaborative features within our market intelligence platform. You will lead and mentor a team, ensuring high-quality, timely delivery of projects. This role requires expertise in Java, Spring, cloud technologies, and databases, along with strong problem-solving and communication skills. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage project timelines and resources, and contribute to roadmap refinement. AlphaSense offers a dynamic work environment, remote work flexibility, and various employee benefits.

Requirements

• Expert in building scalable, high-performing, and robust applications
• Experience in taking ownership of services, including building, running and performing regular iterative improvements to the services
• Expert knowledge of SQL/NO-SQL databases
• Expert with Java ecosystem
• Extensive knowledge of Spring-based applications
• Expert with cloud, containerization and IaC (AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Helm)
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with writing RFCs and technical documentation
• Strong understanding of algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, problem-solving, and object-oriented analysis

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate expertise in core technical domains, proactively addressing complex issues and mitigating risks across projects
• Build strong relationships with product and business stakeholders, contributing to roadmap refinement and aligning technical strategies with business goals
• Provides the right timeline forecast to the Business and proactively engage with the team in doing the deliveries on time without compromising on Quality
• Ensure team efficiency by facilitating technical discussions, resolving blockers, and accurately forecasting deliverables
• Actively mentor team members, fosters knowledge sharing, and champions documentation practices for team continuity
• Manage cost, capacity, and timeline estimation with a high level of accuracy, optimizing team productivity while ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals
• Skilled in DevOps practices, sets and monitors SLOs/SLIs, and ensures team accountability for service reliability in production. Proactively identifies and resolves production risks, effectively handling Production issues with stakeholder collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in relevant technologies
• Experience with testing frameworks
• Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD
• Experience with GraalVM

Benefits

• Playing a part in the story of a fast-growing pre-IPO company
• Relocation programs for single employees, couples, and families
• Remote work and flexible hours
• Interesting career opportunities and training
• Office benefits: coffee, soft drink, snack, access to gym and sauna
• Company-sponsored public transport or parking
• Work equipment of your choice (laptop, mobile phone, home internet)
• Lunch and recreational voucher, occupational health care