Senior Software Engineer Content Platform

About AlphaSense:

The worlds most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research company filings event transcripts expert calls news trade journals and clients own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth innovation and content expansion with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6000 enterprise customers including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011 AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S. U.K. Finland India Singapore Canada and Ireland. Come join us!

The Role:

You will join our team of world-class experts developing the AlphaSense platform. The team is right at the very core of what we do and responsible for implementing cutting-edge technology for scalable distributed processing of millions of documents.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team responsible for building and maintaining data ingestion systems at scale. As a key member of our team you will play a crucial role in designing implementing and optimizing robust solutions for ingesting millions of documents per month from the public web. You are a good fit if youre a proactive problem-solver with a go-getter attitude startup experience and a readiness to learn whatever comes your way!

What Youll Do:

• Design develop and maintain scalable data ingestion pipelines to process large volumes of documents efficiently and reliably.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications and system designs.

• Implement best practices for data ingestion storage and processing to ensure high performance scalability and reliability.

• Optimize data ingestion workflows to improve throughput reduce latency and minimize resource utilization.

• Monitor system performance troubleshoot issues and implement solutions to address bottlenecks and ensure smooth operation.

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends related to data ingestion and multimedia processing and propose innovative solutions to enhance our capabilities.

• Work closely with Product Management to translate product requirements into software architectures

• Follow the engineering processes DevOps practices and trends inside the company (monitoring alerting performance optimization integration testing design documentation) and make sure the teams improve related knowledge as well

Responsibilities:

• Design develop and maintain high-performance scalable applications.

• Solve complex technical challenges with innovative solutions that enhance product features and operational efficiencies.

• Collaborate across teams to integrate applications optimize system performance and streamline data flows.

• Take full ownership of projects from inception to deployment delivering high-quality solutions that improve user experience.

• Lead or support data ingestion processes ensuring seamless data flow and management.

• Continuously learn and adapt to new tools frameworks and technologies as they arise embracing a growth mindset.

• Mentor and guide junior developers fostering a collaborative innovative culture.

Requirements:

• 4 years of backend development experience with a strong understanding of Python or Java

• Experience with any cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP).

• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Proactive problem-solver with a keen eye for tackling challenging technical issues.

• A willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and challenges as they arise.

• Strong team player with a go-getter attitude comfortable working both independently and within cross-functional teams.

Nice-to-Have:

• Knowledge of data processing microservices architecture or DevOps practices.

• Familiarity with Crossplane and/or ArgoCD for GitOps-based infrastructure management.

• Experience with working on Docker K8s

• Experience with GenAI coding tool for productively achieving day-to-day tasks.

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports inspires and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSenses commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race color sex (including pregnancy) national origin age religion marital status sexual orientation gender identity gender expression military or veteran status disability or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense including recruitment hiring training advancement and termination.

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