Software Engineer II

About AlphaSense:

The world’s 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. Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.

Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with over 1,300 people across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com. 

The Role: 

We are seeking an innovative Software Engineer to help create the next big thing in document processing and search solutions. 

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 the cutting-edge technology for scalable, distributed processing of millions of documents.

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. The ideal candidate has strong Java skills accompanied by solid experience with working with cloud computing.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop product expertise, technical mastery, and contribute in a team.
• Clarify requirements & implement effective solutions.
• Evolve 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. Communicate directly with the product and other stakeholders.
• Follow the engineering processes, DevOps practices, and trends inside the company (monitoring, alerting, performance optimization, integration testing, design documentation)

Candidate Requirements:

Must-Have

• 1-3 years of experience in Software Development primarily with Java
• Minimum 1 year experience developing applications in Spring/Springboot
• Working knowledge on any cloud service provider(preferably AWS)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to share thoughts and ideas clearly, concisely, and persuasively.

Nice to have

• Experience in deploying scalable, highly available and distributed systems using Microservices 
• Experience in asynchronous processing of data at scale
• Experience any one or multiple of these: Python, NodeJS, ReactJS
• Exposure to NoSQL solutions like MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc
• Experience with working on Dockers, K8s.