Staff Software Engineer - Reference & Entity Data

About the Team:

Our diverse Product & Engineering team values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous improvement of our platform. We offer a dynamic work environment where employees can grow and thrive while working on cutting-edge technology that shapes the future of AI and search.

At AlphaSense, we believe that diverse experiences and perspectives are critical to our success. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Reference and Entity Data Services mission. This team builds systems that ingest public and private company data from multiple sources, normalizing, deduplicating, and publishing it to every service at AlphaSense that surfaces company information. We're a collaborative group of teams responsible for ensuring data quality, coverage and timeliness for over 9 million companies worldwide. In the near future, we plan to expand our scope beyond companies to other types of reference data including people, industries, governments, and more. Our tech stack includes Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and AWS.

As part of our team, you'll implement new data feed ingestions, integrate reference data with downstream systems, and ensure the health of systems that manage large flows of strategically important data relied upon by tens of thousands of users every day.

Who You Are:

• 7+ years of software development experience building highly reliable, mission-critical software.
• Strong software engineering skills in back-end engineering on data-intensive applications with professional, real-world experience with applications at scale.
• A strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, such as algorithmic complexity, asynchronicity, and distributed computing.
• Experience designing large-scale software systems and writing high-quality code and tests, which includes handling error cases, asynchronous code, streaming data, caching, logging and analytics for understanding behavior in production.
• Knowledge of modern development practices, including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Experience in optimizing the performance and cost of cloud services.
• Experience in leading teams and/or projects.
• Excellent communication, organizational, problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Ability and desire to work in an open and team-oriented environment.

What You'll Do:

• Architect, design, and implement highly scalable services that solve complex problems.
• Test, review and deploy code quickly. We deploy over 10 times per day and manage major releases with feature flags rather than coordinated deployments.
• Research, learn and share new techniques for solving complex engineering problems. We're a highly collaborative team and we push each other to find better solutions every day.
• Write tools and develop practices for the engineering team. From GraphQL-to-Typescript compilers to fully automated deployments, we take the time to invest heavily in our own productivity.
• Own projects from end-to-end. On a given day you might be building a system to measure search engine performance, reworking an integration with a third-party provider, or designing the next generation of a data pipeline.
• Translate product requirements into software architectures in collaboration with Product Management.