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**THIS IS A REMOTE POSITION EXCLUSIVELY FOR BRAZILIAN CITIZENS.**\n\nAt AlphaSights, we search through more than 500 million professionals working in the world today to find the small handful of experts qualified to answer our clients' needs. They use these insights to drive amazing progress within their organizations. Our mission is to provide access to dispersed, hidden, and underutilized knowledge.\n\nWeโve made terrific progress working in this new space, but there is still an incredible amount of work to do. Weโve only just scratched the surface on how we can apply technology to this problem. AlphaSights' Engineers build features across our ecosystem of products and services, both internal and client facing.\n\n**Your role:**\n\nAs a Senior Backend Engineer, you will build the next generation of our product suite to enhance the value we deliver to our clients.ย You will enhance the intelligence and capabilities of our systems, optimize workflows, remove pain-points, develop reliable services, and build the features that will take us to the next level. Your work is important because our internal teams depend on our core technology to serve our clients on a daily basis. You'll work closely with a variety of people in the business to arrive at the best solution, immediately see the impact of your work, and get feedback directly from users.\n\n**Key responsibilities:**\n\nScale our Transcript offerings to serve all clients across the globe\nBuild our next-generation Survey system\nAccelerate our migration to a microservice architecture\nImprove the performance of our applications\nImprove developer tooling and processes\nUnderstand our business context deeply and leverage your engineering knowledge to propose creative solutions to problems\nOccasionally lead a small team to plan, prioritize and deliver product releases\nDevelop backend services in Kotlin\nDive into our legacy Ruby on Rails applications when necessary\n\n**Main requirements:**\n\nHave at least 7 years of professional experience, and have served as tech lead for a specific application, product area, or infrastructure\nEnjoy mentoring other team members, including code reviews and tech talks\nCan balance deep work with cross-team collaboration\nConstantly learn from and mentor other engineers\nSee yourself as an entrepreneur as well as an engineer\nAdvanced English skills\nGreat interest in working with a modern language like Kotlin to develop Server Side services and APIs\n\n**Ideally, you have:**\n\nGood experience with a JVM languageย (3+ years). Experience with Koltin and SpringBoot is a plus\nWorked as a maintainer of Ruby/Rails applications\nA good command of Postgres and Elasticsearch with special attention to performance\nExperience with RabbitMQ or similar messaging queue systems\nFamiliarity with observability and monitoring tools\nA good understanding of distributed systems and its challenges\nHave a general understanding of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS)\nBasic knowledge of React\n\n**Your team:**\n\nYou will join a dynamic, multinational, and diverse team who enjoy solving interesting problems in a collaborative environment\nWe have self-taught engineers as well as graduates from top Computer Science and Engineering schools\nYour co-workers will include motivated recent graduates as well as experienced industry leaders from companies such as Google and Amazon\n\nWe believe a broad spectrum of experience provides a great perspective on solving problems in new and innovative ways. If your background doesn't check all the boxes above, but you are passionate about backend engineering, weโd still love to hear from you.\n\n**About AlphaSights:**\n\nAlphaSights is a leading global industry research platform. We leverage proprietary knowledge search technology powered by machine learning, natural language processing and data science to connect decision makers to globally distributed knowledge faster than ever before. Professionals at investment firms, consultancies, corporations and non-profits rely on us to connect them seamlessly with knowledgeable domain experts who help enhance their thinking, inform critical decisions and propel their business forward. Founded in 2008, AlphaSights currently employs nearly 1,000 professionals in nine offices around the globe and regularly ranks as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. AlphaSights has been consistently profitable since 2010, is internally (not VC/PE) funded and pursues a strategy of ambitious long-term growth.\n\nFind out more: http://engineering.alphasights.com \n\nPlease mention the words **KICK BLANKET SCATTER** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMy45NS4zOS4xMjc=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Location\nBrazil
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