Engineering Manager - Platform

Location

Delhi | India

Job description

About AlphaSense: 

AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform used by the world's leading companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, our AI-based technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from an extensive universe of public and private content—including equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. 

Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,500+ people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, Germany, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com

Check out what we’ve built so far: 

1. The decision that matters -

2. India Office -

The Role: 

We are seeking an innovative Engineering Manager to help create the next big thing in document processing and search solutions. 

You will join our team of world-class experts developing the AlphaSense platform. The team is right at the very core of what we do and responsible for implementing the cutting-edge technology for scalable, distributed processing of millions of documents.

As the technical lead, you will focus on solving larger technical challenges while leading the effort to design, build and configure applications and act as the primary point of contact. 

The ideal candidate has strong Java skills accompanied by solid experience with working with cloud computing. You should be able to work with your team and inspire them to reach their goals. You should always be expanding your industry knowledge and be able to quickly identify problems. Outstanding technical leads are accountable, trustworthy, and able to build lasting relationships with their teams.

We are seeking an accomplished Lead Software Engineer to spearhead a new team focused on developing a groundbreaking system for live transcription of audio files. In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of scalable solutions to transcribe audio files in real-time and maintain a dynamic transcript publishing system. Experience in building data ingestion systems at scale is crucial for this position.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop product expertise, technical mastery, and lead a team.
• Clarify requirements & design effective solutions to complex problems.
• Ensure effective delegation to reach the delivery goals with high-quality output while team members are mentored and guided effectively
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues. Identify risks and form contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Evolve technical maturity and ability of the organization by applying new technology and practices through constant learning and innovation.
• Collaborate with teams in global locations and across functions in some cases. Communicate directly with the product and other stakeholders.
• Ensure team performance and inspire the team to grow their skills-set. Effectively mentor junior members of the team. 
• Follow the engineering processes, DevOps practices, and trends inside the company (monitoring, alerting, performance optimization, integration testing, design documentation) and make sure the teams improve related knowledge as well

Candidate Requirements:

Must-Have

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Software Development with 3+ years of proficiency in Java or Python
• Minimum 1 year of experience developing applications in Spring/Springboot or Django/Flask/FastAPI
• Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available, and distributed systems using MicroServices 
• Experience with any cloud service provider(preferably AWS)
• Lead a team of engineers for at least a year or more
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to share thoughts and ideas clearly, concisely, and persuasively.

Nice to have

• Exposure to NoSQL solutions like MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc
• Experience with working on Dockers, K8s
• Experience with speech-to-text technologies and live transcription systems is highly desirable.

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