Sr Software Engineer (Platform Enablement)

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August 16

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Alkymi

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Artificial Intelligence • Finance • Fintech

Alkymi is a company that provides AI-powered data workflows specifically designed for the financial services sector. The company offers an end-to-end solution for managing private markets data processing by transforming unstructured investment data into standardized, interactive datasets. Alkymi's platform leverages advanced AI, machine learning (ML), and large language models (LLMs) to automate data workflows, enabling financial firms to handle complex documents efficiently. This automation helps firms supercharge their operations, respond quicker to market changes, and make data-driven investment decisions. Through integrations with downstream systems, Alkymi ensures real-time delivery of structured portfolio data. Their solutions are utilized in various areas such as private equity, wealth and asset management, and financial data operations.

11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 $21M Series A on 2022-10

📋 Description

• Deliver highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant production applications based on containerized workloads in Kubernetes. • Collaborate with our product and engineering teams to identify areas for improvement and help drive the development of new features and functionality for our microservice architecture, especially focused on intra-service communication, isolation, and shared functionality such as session management, caching, and observability. • Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, including performance, related to our microservices and Kubernetes systems, including debugging code to identify the root cause of issues. • Support best practices with Kubernetes architecture, including optimized workloads, performant namespace and cluster architecture, in-cluster networking, service meshing, ingress and egress, and effective pod and node auto-scaling. • Define interoperable solutions and design patterns in a polyglot ecosystem, solving service communication, such as REST and gRPC, as well as their integration with external APIs and extensibility. • Leverage cloud native technologies for fault tolerance, scalability, and disaster recovery. • Lead code/design reviews to ensure smooth daily operations and accurate planning. • Provide mentoring and technical support to junior engineers. • Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging. • Write clean code to develop functional applications. • Document technical issues and resolutions in our knowledge base and communicate them to our customers and internal teams. • Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features. • Test-driven development while championing an API-first approach to software projects, ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and extensibility. • Set up and maintain environment configurations and monitor system health. • Respond promptly to on-call incidents, including troubleshooting and resolving critical disruptions to ensure minimal downtime.

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a minimum of 5+ years of related experience; or 3 years and an advanced degree. • Bachelor's degree in engineering, or another related field or equivalent work experience. • 5+ years of experience in software development, or a related field, or equivalent. • Excellent experience designing highly performant and scalable solutions with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes. • Strong programming skills in an OOP language like Java or C#, or a functional language like Python, Go, or Kotlin. • Proven experience optimizing system performance, including the ability to troubleshoot bottlenecks and implement performance improvements in distributed systems. • Excellent analytical and time management skills, with a proven ability to deliver value independently. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience providing technical input. • Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and product teams. • Collaborates effectively within the agile framework with a problem-solving attitude and willing to take a variety of approaches. • Experience developing and deploying applications for Cloud Native Infrastructure. • Developing tests including unit tests, UI automation tests, integration tests. • Understanding and practical application of REST API best practices. • Proficiency in adhering to standards, ensuring security, scalability, and optimal performance. • Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases, coupled with caching mechanisms. • Includes designing data structures, optimizing, and maintaining systems, as well as effective caching strategies to enhance performance and responsiveness. • Experience working with modern Javascript frameworks like React and Angular, HTML, and CSS. • Ability to participate in on-call rotation to support Alkami’s customers. • Desired Skills: Experience extending Kubernetes with operator and controller patterns. • Experience with OpenTelemetry. • Experience working with and designing RESTful and/or gRPC APIs. • Experience with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure. • Experience working with SaaS offerings in the technology and financial industries.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first environment • Unlimited paid time off • 401(k) with employer match • Great benefits