About AlphaSense

AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by the world's leading companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, our AI-based technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from an extensive universe of public and private content – including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. Our platform is trusted by over 3,500 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,200 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.

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The Role

We seek an innovative and passionate Software Engineer to help create the next big thing in Enterprise Knowledge Platform solutions for Financial Data. You will join our team of world-class experts developing the Alphasense platform. The team is right at the core of what we do and responsible for implementing cutting-edge technology for building scalable, secure & reliable enterprise solutions.

You will focus on solving larger technical challenges while leading the effort to design, build, and configure applications and act as the primary point of contact. 

About the Team

Knowledge Management at AlphaSense is at the forefront of innovation in market intelligence, with a commitment to providing our users with the tools to capture crucial insights seamlessly, transform these insights into actionable intelligence, and make informed decisions that drive meaningful outcomes.

What You’ll Do

  • Writing high-quality, performant, and industry-standard code 
  • Develop product expertise, and technical mastery and contribute to a team
  • Clarify requirements & implement effective solutions
  • Evolve the technical maturity and ability of the organization by applying new technology and practices through constant learning and innovation
  • Collaborate with teams in global locations and across functions in some cases
  • Follow the engineering processes, DevOps practices, and trends inside the company

What we expect

  • Minimum 4 years of experience in Backend Development
  • Deep understanding of the Java ecosystem
  • Extensive knowledge of Spring-based applications
  • Experience with cloud, containerization and IaC (AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Helm)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to share thoughts and ideas, concisely, and persuasively
  • Strong understanding of algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, problem-solving, and object-oriented analysis
  • Experience in developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance, and reliability.

Good to Have...

  • Experience with writing RFCs and technical documentation is a plus
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in Kubernetes, Databases, Java and messaging technologies
  • Experience with testing frameworks
  • Experience with GitOps. ArgoCD
  • Experience with. GraphQL, GraalVM

What we offer

  • Playing a part in the story of a fast growing company
  • Interesting career opportunities and training
  • Relocation support for single employees, couples and families
  • While we do have an office in Helsinki, we’re a distributed company. We value outcomes over time, and offer flexible working arrangements. We usually meet at the office once a week.
  • Private healthcare services from Terveystalo
  • 2 weeks of vacation granted up front, and possibility to use vacation days as they accrue
  • Access to gym room, gaming room, free parking near the office, mobile phone, Lunch benefit, mobile plan, home internet, remote work equipment, and many more....

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