Staff Engineer User Activities

About AlphaSense

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.

Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with over 1,300 people across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com. 

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About the Team:

User Activities encompass the core user actions that enable collaboration within the platform, including tagging, bookmarking, highlighting, commenting, and more. We focus on creating features that not only help users organize and retrieve information efficiently but also foster collaboration across teams. By integrating these activities with AlphaSense’s powerful AI and search capabilities, we provide users with a cohesive and intuitive experience that enhances productivity and insight discovery. We work with many stakeholders across the company to ensure a seamless experience. 

What You’ll Do :

• Technical Leadership: Demonstrate expertise in core technical domains, proactively addressing complex issues and mitigating risks across projects.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Build strong relationships with product and business stakeholders, contributing to roadmap refinement and aligning technical strategies with business goals.
• Quality and Delivery: Provides the right timeline forecast to the Business and proactively engage with the team in doing the deliveries on time without compromising on Quality
• Project Ownership: Ensure team efficiency by facilitating technical discussions, resolving blockers, and accurately forecasting deliverables.
• Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing: Actively mentor  team members, fosters knowledge sharing, and champions documentation practices for team continuity.
• Strategic Thinking: Manage cost, capacity, and timeline estimation with a high level of accuracy, optimizing team productivity while ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals.
• DevOps and Operational Awareness: Skilled in DevOps practices, sets and monitors SLOs/SLIs, and ensures team accountability for service reliability in production. Proactively identifies and resolves production risks, effectively handling Production issues with stakeholder collaboration.

Must Have

• Expert in building scalable, high-performing, and robust applications
• Experience in taking ownership of services, including building, running and performing regular  iterative improvements to the services
• Expert knowledge of SQL/NO-SQL databases
• Expert with Java ecosystem
• Extensive knowledge of Spring-based applications
• Expert with cloud, containerization and IaC (AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Helm)
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with writing RFCs and technical documentation
• Strong understanding of algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, problem-solving, and object-oriented analysis

Good to Have

• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in relevant technologies
• Experience with testing frameworks
• Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD
• Experience with  GraalVM

What we offer

• Playing a part in the story of a fast-growing pre-IPO company
• Relocation programs for single employees, couples, and families
• Remote work and flexible hours
• Interesting career opportunities and training
• Office benefits: coffee, soft drink, snack, access to gym and sauna
• Company-sponsored public transport or parking
• Work equipment of your choice (laptop, mobile phone, home internet)
• Lunch and recreational voucher, occupational health care

You can apply by sending your cover letter and resume through the application form.

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