# Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) - UK

## Summary
- Organization: AlphaSights 
- Location: London Area, United Kingdom
- Type: Full-Time
- Department: Engineering
- Status: active
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- Closing Date: N/A
- External Apply: Yes
- External Apply URL: https://www.alphasights.com/job/senior-backend-engineer-remote-uk/

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## Description
**The role:**

We are looking for highly talented, driven software engineers who take pride in their work to expand our Engineering team in London. Successful candidates will join a cross-functional team including product managers and designers working closely with the rest of our business to deliver working code that solves real problems for both internal and external customers. You will take ownership of the services managed by your team, ensuring that their development aligns with the higher-level AlphaSights Engineering strategy, while mentoring more junior Engineers. If you have a strong passion for solving problems with code and want to work with exceptional colleagues in a high-achievement environment, this role is a good fit for you. 

**What you’ll do:**

- Design solutions: Define the best technical solutions to business problems, contributing to an architectural vision that will scale up to be the world’s leading research platform.
- Ship working code: We primarily use React on the frontend and Kotlin microservices with PostgreSQL on the backend, with some legacy services written in Ruby on Rails. We’re always on the lookout for new technologies that could improve our stack.
- Deploy and iterate: We release frequently to our customers, using CircleCI and Spinnaker for CI/CD, and quickly gather feedback to inform our next iteration.
- Build your competency: You will learn quickly by building market-leading technology with experienced colleagues in a high-performance environment. Engineers can also use our L&D budget to fast-track development of specific technical competencies. 
- Maintenance and troubleshooting: Carefully monitor our services to catch errors before users notice them, diagnose the root cause, and deploy fixes.

**Who you are:**

- You probably have a degree in a STEM field, but we’re happy to work with people who perfected their craft through a different path.
- Experience working at a similar level in a mature Engineering team, and looking to take my career to the next level. We’re looking for people who have incredible potential.
- Technical expertise with at least one programming language (we use Kotlin and a bit of Ruby), and ideally experience with relational databases.
- Proven track record – You’ve made a demonstrable impact in your previous roles, standing out from your peers. Highly driven and proactive – you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes.
- Highly driven and proactive – you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes.
- Meticulous – you hold high standards and have an obsessive attention to detail.
- Learn more about our tech organisation here! 


Don’t worry if your experience or background doesn’t match all of these areas. We believe a broad spectrum of experience provides a valuable perspective on solving problems in innovative ways, and we’d love to hear from you.
Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas for this position. AlphaSights is an equal opportunity employer.



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## Organization
- Name: AlphaSights 
- Website: http://www.alphasights.com
- Industry: Information Services
- Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
- Founded Year: 2008
- Description: Founded in 2008, AlphaSights is the global leader in knowledge on demand. We connect investors and business leaders with the knowledge they need to succeed. Working from nine cities globally, our 2,000+ colleagues provide round-the-clock coverage to the world's top investment funds, consultancies, and Fortune 500s. Learn more about us at alphasights.com. 

Please note that AlphaSights communicates exclusively by email through the AlphaSights domain, @alphasights.com, LinkedIn, and phone (including via text, WhatsApp, and WeChat). Any communications you receive that purport to come from AlphaSights but have been sent from another email domain (e.g. Gmail or Hotmail) or via other forms of social media (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Telegram) are likely to be fraudulent. If in doubt as to whether you have received genuine communication from AlphaSights, please contact us at https://www.alphasights.com/contact/.