Software Engineer II

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 4,000 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.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

The Role: 

We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer II to join our dynamic team responsible for building and maintaining data ingestion systems at scale, with a focus on web scraping. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging projects and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement robust solutions for scraping millions of documents per month. Experience with web scraping systems is a plus but not required.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data ingestion pipelines to scrape large volumes of documents efficiently and reliably from various sources on the web.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and implement solutions that meet business needs.
• Write clean, maintainable code and perform code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to coding standards.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in web scraping workflows, and implement solutions to optimize performance and reliability.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in web scraping and data engineering, and propose innovative solutions to enhance our data ingestion capabilities.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes and tools, and actively participate in team meetings and discussions.

 

Candidate Requirements:

Must-Have

• Minimum 1 years of experience in Software Development with proficiency in Python. 
• Good understanding of data structures, algorithms and computer science fundamentals.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders.
• Good problem-solving and logical reasoning capabilities

• Knowledge of web scraping techniques and libraries (e.g., BeautifulSoup, Scrapy) is a plus.
• Experience with one or more programming languages such as Java or Go and proficiency in writing efficient, scalable code.
• Familiarity with Crossplane and/or ArgoCD for GitOps-based infrastructure management.
• Exposure NoSQL solutions like MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc. 
• Experience developing applications in Python frameworks (e.g. Django, Flask, FastAPI)
• Experience with working on Dockers, K8s

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

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