Lead Engineer
Description For Lead Engineer
AlphaSense, a leading Enterprise Knowledge Platform for Financial Data, is seeking a Lead Engineer to join their innovative team. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense serves over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.
As a Lead Engineer, you'll be at the core of developing the AlphaSense platform, focusing on solving large technical challenges and leading efforts to design, build, and configure applications. You'll work with a team of world-class experts to implement cutting-edge technology for scalable, secure, and reliable enterprise solutions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and writing high-quality, performant code
- Clarifying requirements and implementing effective solutions
- Evolving the organization's technical maturity through innovation
- Collaborating with global teams across functions
- Following engineering processes and DevOps practices
- Developing product expertise and mentoring other engineers
The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of software development experience, expert knowledge of SQL/NO-SQL databases, proficiency in Java or Python, and experience with cloud-native services, containerization tools, and ETL/file handling at scale. Strong communication and problem-solving skills are essential.
Join AlphaSense and be part of a team that's revolutionizing market intelligence and helping companies make informed decisions that drive meaningful outcomes.
Responsibilities For Lead Engineer
- Design & write high-quality, performant, and industry-standard code
- Clarify requirements, Design & 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
- Develop product expertise, and technical mastery and contribute to a team
- Mentor & coach other engineers on the latest developments
Requirements For Lead Engineer
- 7+ years of software development experience in building scalable, high-performing, and robust applications
- Expert knowledge of SQL/NO-SQL databases
- Proficient in Java or Python and their ecosystems
- Experience in building cloud-native services
- Experience with containerization tools like Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm
- Experience with Observability tools & platforms
- Experience with ETL/file handling at scale
- Excellent communicator with strong organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills
- Demonstrated technical leadership in a cross-functional distributed team environment
- Experience with writing RFCs and technical documentation
- Ability to carefully break down the problem into small pieces
