Senior Backend Engineer

April 28

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AlphaSights

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Founded in 2008, AlphaSights is the global leader in knowledge on-demand. We connect investors and business leaders with the knowledge they need to succeed. Working from nine cities globally, our 1500+ colleagues provide round-the-clock coverage to the world's top investment funds, consultancies, and Fortune 500s. Learn more about us at alphasights.com.

1001 - 5000 employees

💰 Venture Round on 2008-01

📋 Description

• The role: • We are looking for highly talented and driven software engineers who take pride in their work, to expand our Engineering team in Brazil. • Successful candidates will join a cross functional team including product managers and designers working closely with the rest of our business to deliver working code that solves real problems for both internal and external customers. • You will take ownership of the services managed by your team, ensuring that their development aligns with the higher level AlphaSights Engineering strategy, while mentoring more junior Engineers. • If you have a strong passion for solving problems with code, and want to work with exceptional colleagues in a high achievement environment, this role is a good fit for you. • What you’ll do: • 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. • 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. • Learn more about our tech organization here! • Don't worry if your experience or background doesn't match all of these areas, we believe a broad spectrum of experience provides great perspective on solving problems in new and innovative ways and we’d love to hear from you. • Please note that unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas for this position. AlphaSights is an equal opportunity employer. • *THIS IS A REMOTE POSITION EXCLUSIVELY FOR CURRENT BRAZILIAN RESIDENTS.

🎯 Requirements

• You probably have a degree in a STEM subject • Experience working at a similar level in a mature Engineering team • Technical expertise with Java or Kotlin with Springboot, 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.