Software Engineer – Reference and Entity Data Services

Job Description

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.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.

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About the Role:We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Reference and Entity Data Services mission. This team builds systems that ingest public and private company data from multiple sources, normalizing, deduplicating, and publishing it to every service at AlphaSense that surfaces company information. We’re a collaborative group of teams responsible for ensuring data quality, coverage and timeliness for over 9 million companies worldwide.

In the near future, we plan to expand our scope beyond companies to other types of reference data including people, industries, governments, and more. Our tech stack includes Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and AWS.

As part of our team, you’ll implement new data feed ingestions, integrate reference data with downstream systems, and ensure the health of systems that manage large flows of strategically important data relied upon by tens of thousands of users every day. Who You Are:3+ years of software development experience building highly reliable, mission-critical software. Strong software engineering skills in back-end engineering on data-intensive applications with professional, real-world experience with applications at scale.

A strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, such as algorithmic complexity, asynchronicity, and distributed computing. Experience writing high-quality code and tests, which includes handling error cases, asynchronous code, streaming data, caching, logging and analytics for understanding behavior in production. Knowledge of modern development practices, including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.

Excellent communication, organizational, problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills. Ability and desire to work in an open and team-oriented environment. What You’ll Do: Test, review and deploy code quickly.

We deploy over 10 times per day and manage major releases with feature flags rather than coordinated deployments. Research, learn and share new techniques for solving complex engineering problems. We’re a highly collaborative team and we push each other to find better solutions every day.

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