Senior Software Engineer, AlphaSense
AI Platform
$165-200k
Market intelligence and search platform
Job no longer available
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$165-200k
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organize the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- A BS/MS degree in a relevant technical discipline such as Computer Science, and Computer Engineering
- Experienced software engineer who can design large scale software systems, write high quality code and tests
- 3+ years of experience in building and deploying scalable cloud based backend services and APIs. Familiar with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS or GCP
- Proficient in Java and Python, and familiar with one or more of the following: Terraform, GraphQL, Javascript
- Having experience in deploying AI and search services (such as vector search) to single-tenant cloud environments
- An excellent communicator with strong organizational, problem-solving, debugging and analytical skills
- Demonstrated technical leadership in a cross-functional distributed team environment
What the job involves
- We are seeking a passionate senior software engineer to join our AI & Search Platform team. The AI & Search Platform team develops the next generation of AI platform and search infrastructure, and owns the platform and services powering AlphaSense’s AI & Search product features. You will work closely with a team of talented engineers to deliver scalable solutions for our world-class AI-powered search platform
- Architect, design and implement highly scalable backend services powering AlphaSense AI and Search products
- Own and improve the reliability, latency, and cost of AI and search services in cloud environments
- Deploy AI and Search services to single tenant cloud environments
- Work closely with Product Management to translate product requirements into software architectures
- Work with partner engineering teams to design, develop and optimize our search and document processing platform
- Provide technical leadership to implement best practices for software development
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Manual research can be a serious pain : financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it is now setting its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Customer obsession - We measure ourselves against a simple yardstick: do our clients rave about us?
- Passion for product - Building a powerful yet simple and beautiful product is in our DNA
- Results - We value execution and outcomes over appearance and office politics. It’s that simple
- Diversity of perspective - Great ideas come from everywhere and anywhere
- Think big - We believe AlphaSense can change the game, and possibly the world
- Ownership - As owners of AlphaSense, it’s everyone’s job to ensure we do great work - and to always look for opportunities to do better
- Acceleration - We’re a fast-growing and fast-moving company. Do it, iterate, and try again
- Trust - We trust our colleagues to do what’s right and what’s best for the company
- Teamwork - Helping our colleagues succeed always comes first. We are serious about our work - and have fun too
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Founders
Jaakko Kokko
(CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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