Senior Backend Software Engineer, Kensho
Office located in Cambridge, MA
AI-powered data analytics tools
Open for applications
AI-powered data analytics tools
101-200 employees
Open for applications
Office located in Cambridge, MA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build solutions that uncover insights in messy and unstructured data that enable critical workflows and empower businesses to make decisions with conviction.
Role
Who you are
- At least five years of direct experience developing SaaS applications within a team
- Thoughtful and efficient communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Experience developing SaaS application backends and APIs using a variety of tools
- Experience turning abstract business requirements into concrete technical plans
- Experience working across many stages of the software development lifecycle
- Sound reasoning about the behavior and performance of loosely-coupled systems
- Proficiency with algorithms (including time and space complexity analysis), data structures, and software architecture
- At least one domain of demonstrable technical depth
Desirable
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Link team, you will develop the software behind our reliable, secure, and performant APIs.
- You will collaborate with colleagues from Machine Learning, Product, and Infrastructure, as well as with other engineers within Link. You have a demonstrated capacity for depth, but are comfortable working with a broad range of technologies. You are a thoughtful, deliberate technologist and share your knowledge generously
- Design, develop, test, document, deploy, maintain, and improve software
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Work with key stakeholders to develop system architectures, API specifications, implementation requirements, and complexity estimates
- Test assumptions through instrumentation and prototyping
- Promote ongoing technical development through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship
- Technology You'll Encounter:
- Django, Python 3, PostgreSQL
- Git, Jsonnet, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
- Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Kensho combines natural language search queries, graphical user interfaces, and secure cloud computing to create analytics tools for investment professionals. Addressing the three biggest challenges surrounding investment analysis on Wall Street today, speed, scale, and automation, Kensho's intelligent computer systems are capable of answering complex financial questions posed in plain English.
Kensho’s AI and machine learning systems strive to make S&P data that much more relevant. Given the sheer amount of data and the abundance of knowledge workers trying to categorize it, Kensho’s data pipeline system processes unstructured data for data discovery relevant to clients’ needs. Whether clients seek data search and classification or transcription, Kensho’s various products allow a variety of data-driven financial applications.
Global data analytics continues to grow by 25% until 2030 from the present estimate of $25 billion. High profile customers such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanely and Citigroup are among those utilizing Kensho products to improve their processes. With the growing volume of raw data coupled with the demand for better machine learning, Kensho is poised to continue to overcome challenges.
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2014
$7m
SERIES A
Mar 2014
$10m
SEED
Total funding: $17m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 100% company paid premiums
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 26 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave (paternity and maternity)
- 401(k) plan with 6% employer matching
- Generous company matching on donations to non-profit charities
- Up to $20,000 tuition assistance toward degree programs, plus up to $4,000/year for ongoing professional education such as industry conferences
- Plentiful snacks, drinks, and regularly catered lunches
- Dog-friendly office (CAM office)
- In-office gyms and showers (CAM, DC)
- Bike sharing program memberships
- Compassion leave and elder care leave
- Mentoring and additional learning opportunities
- Opportunity to expand professional network and participate in conferences and events
Company values
- Go Team - We put the team before ourselves
- Empowerment - We encourage intelligent risk-taking; we like action, and we don’t waste time
- Inclusion -We encourage differences
- Open Communication - We default to openness and happily acknowledge and embrace failures so we can learn from them
- Pursuit of Excellence - We never sacrifice our high bar and optimize under the assumption that quality work hours from the best people are the scarcest resource
Company HQ
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
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Founders
Bhavesh Dayalji
(CEO, not founder)Served as COO of the company before transitioning to CEO in 2021.
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