AlphaSights

This position is eligible for remote working opportunities within the United Kingdom.  About AlphaSights AlphaSights provides global investment and business professionals with on-demand access to business expertise across all industries and geographies. Through AlphaSights, decision makers from investment management, private equity, management consulting, and corporates connect with a dynamic network of industry experts that provide qualitative and quantitative market insights, industry expertise, and execution support. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and our global team of 1,000+ professionals in nine offices on three continents, we support our clients 24/7 around the globe. AlphaSights regularly ranks as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Learn more at  alphasights.com . The role: An engineering team lead within one of AlphaSights’ innovation areas, working in close partnership with innovation area specialists, product, design, data, and other software engineers to drive technical innovation. Our innovation areas in London span a range of subjects, from Finance & Analytics to User Engagement, and we’ll be more than happy to go through them in detail as part of the interview process. What you’ll do: As an engineering team lead, you will be responsible for defining technical direction, and providing technical mentorship and guidance to other members of the team. You will be focussed on the technical planning, quality of work, productivity and striving to increase the impact of the team’s work, with the expectation that up to 50% of your time will be spent programming. As a lead, you will be empowered to make independent decisions for the team and will learn how to handle complex management and leadership situations. Who you are:  Skilled, humble, driven, transparent  An experienced software engineer looking to level up in their career Likely to have been working as an software engineer for 5+ years Expert in at least one software programming language Doesn’t have to be in our tech stack Independent learner, with track record of teaching/mentoring other engineers  Great communicator Solid understanding of modern software engineering practices Continuous delivery Cloud technology Testing approaches Functional programming Tech stack (previous experience not required): Kotlin (new services), Ruby , Python (for data processing) are officially supported back end languages React is officially supported on the front end language Our software is hosted on AWS Kubernetes is used for application deployment, scaling, and management Continuous Integration CircleCI , Spinnaker , ECR Learn more about Tech at AlphaSights in this video and through our engineering website . 

Who we are: AlphaSights provides global investment and business professionals with on-demand access to business expertise across all industries and geographies. Through AlphaSights, decision makers from investment management, private equity, management consulting, and corporates connect with a dynamic network of industry experts that provide qualitative and quantitative market insights, industry expertise, and execution support. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and our global team of 1,000+ professionals in nine offices on three continents, we support our clients 24/7 around the globe. AlphaSights regularly ranks as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Learn more at alphasights.com . The role: As a Product Manager at AlphaSights you’ll have complete ownership of a product innovation area, and will be responsible for driving it forward with significant autonomy. You’ll join our rapidly-evolving, global technology function and take on challenging assignments that have the potential to transform the way our entire company operates. This will involve tackling a diverse set of challenges and opportunities, spanning problem definition, ideation, solution design and iteration, development, launch, and operationalisation of new technologies that scale our business. This role is a great opportunity for you if you’re motivated, hardworking, and enthusiastic to apply your product skillset to innovate a space ripe for tech disruption. What you’ll do: User need identification and problem definition: Collection of user feedback, internal feedback, and market feedback to identify and prioritise the user needs and sources of value within your product area. Iterative and detailed solution formation: Work cross-functionally to hypothesize and validate solutions, convince stakeholders on your approach, and build out product evolutions. Product development: Meticulous planning and management of the software development required for your and your team’s product solutions; you will have to partner effectively with Engineering and Design to see your ideas through to completion. Planning: Maintenance of a clear roadmap for your innovation area. Contribution to cross-product development / release planning. Go-to-market: Lead seamless product rollouts, including coordination of necessary documentation and training for impacted users. Monitor adoption and feedback, and continue to iterate and improve solutions. Executive communication: Communicate and present ideas, learnings and updates to senior leadership across the business. Define, measure, and monitor KPIs, to ensure your product is delivering demonstrable business outcomes. Who you are: 4-6 years of product management experience Love defining and tackling complex problems in ambiguous environments, and are not satisfied until you’ve considered every angle and got to the source Empathise with and listen to users, alongside leveraging data analytics to build a true understanding of user needs Ideate creative and collaborative solutions Communicate persuasively, both written and verbally Have a proven organisation, execution and development management skillset, and can inspire, lead, and support a cross-functional team to ship great products Hold high standards and an obsessive attention to detail with respect to the products and user experiences your team develops Can think longer term and set out a metrics-supported, outcome-based roadmap for your innovation area Love hiring, building teams, and mentoring and developing others Previous experience partnering with a technical lead in a complex tech industry (experience with B2B, enterprise, or SaaS products is a plus) For more information about our team, how we build, our projects, our tech stack, and our benefits, visit alphasights.com/careers/alphatech .

This position is eligible for remote working opportunities within the United Kingdom.  About AlphaSights AlphaSights provides global investment and business professionals with on-demand access to business expertise across all industries and geographies. Through AlphaSights, decision makers from investment management, private equity, management consulting, and corporates connect with a dynamic network of industry experts that provide qualitative and quantitative market insights, industry expertise, and execution support. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and our global team of 1,000+ professionals in nine offices on three continents, we support our clients 24/7 around the globe. AlphaSights regularly ranks as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Learn more at alphasights.com . At 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 organisations. Our mission is to provide access to dispersed, hidden, and underutilized knowledge. We’ve made terrific progress working in this new space, but there is still an incredible amount to do. We’ve only just scratched the surface on how we can apply technology to this problem. AlphaSights' Frontend Engineers build features across our ecosystem of products, both internal and client facing. As a frontend engineer you will build ambitious web applications, on the edge of what is possible with today’s browsers. 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. We're looking for people who are interested in building software systems to an incredibly high standard, comfortable working across multiple languages, and learn quickly when new technologies are introduced. We want our senior engineers to lead the thinking in their area of expertise and encourage everyone around them to continuously improve.  You will: - Build and own our frontend architecture  - Push the boundaries of modern frontend engineering to build fast and ambitious web applications - Work closely with our Product Team to build features that have significant business impact - Design elegant and intuitive UI components  - Drive forward thinking for frontend technologies at AlphaSights - Proactively identify and improve our front-end developer experience - Work in small, nimble teams - Understand our business context deeply and leverage your engineering knowledge to propose creative solutions to problems - Contribute to our open source projects   You might be a fit if you: - Have a deep understanding of JavaScript and its fundamentals - Is experienced leading high performing engineering teams, and setting high standards in front-end development - Understand the complexities of the DOM and CSS, especially how they interact - Interpret UI performance metrics and address issues accordingly - Know and understand the implications of the latest developments in ECMAScript - Learn from and mentor other engineers - Reason about trade-offs when discussing frontend technologies - Navigate and write backend code where necessary   You might: - Build UIs to schedule multi-party communication with heavy constraints - Integrate our software to browsers, web email clients, and web calendars to meet our users needs - Launch new product initiatives that delight our clients and differentiate our services - Develop innovative search and discovery interfaces that are mission critical to our knowledge-search business   Who you would work with: - You would join a dynamic, multinational, and diverse team who enjoy solving interesting problems in a collaborative environment - We have self-taught engineers as well as graduates from top Computer Science and Engineering schools - Your co-workers will include motivated recent graduates as well as experienced industry leaders from companies such as Google and Amazon Don't worry if your experience or background doesn't match all of these areas, we believe a broad spectrum of experience provides great perspective on solving problems in new and innovative ways and we’d love to hear from you.  Find out more: http://engineering.alphasights.com

This position is eligible for remote working opportunities within the United Kingdom.  About AlphaSights AlphaSights provides global investment and business professionals with on-demand access to business expertise across all industries and geographies. Through AlphaSights, decision makers from investment management, private equity, management consulting, and corporates connect with a dynamic network of industry experts that provide qualitative and quantitative market insights, industry expertise, and execution support. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and our global team of 1,000+ professionals in nine offices on three continents, we support our clients 24/7 around the globe. AlphaSights regularly ranks as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Learn more at  alphasights.com . The Engineering Manager Role AlphaSights' Engineering Managers are technical team leaders early in their management experience.  They are still honing their management skills with the support of more senior technical leadership, but excel at unlocking their team’s potential for high quality delivery.  They manage both the technical and the people side of their teams; being both a career mentor as well as a technical mentor for their developers. They spend a majority of their time ensuring the technical excellence of their team, unblocking their team for maximum delivery, and communicating the team’s needs and progress to the rest of the organization.  As an engineering manager you are expected to be able to write and optimize code, as well as ensure that your developers can do the same. 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. We are seeking engineering managers looking to grow their experience and expertise, and experienced engineering leaders that are looking to expand their career into technical management.  In either case, you should be skilled as an individual contributor as well as interested in running (and building) technical teams and holding them accountable to an incredibly high standard.  You should be comfortable working across multiple technical languages, be excited to learn new technologies, and experienced providing technical mentorship to your teams.   You will: Manage a team (or subset of a team depending on experience level) of software engineers, including task planning and code reviews Technically manage (and typically build) large areas of our product and service ecosystem Work with Product Owners to flesh out business requirements and ensure that the team is solving the right problems to help the business Ensure that the team adheres to high standards and practices sustainable engineering Help your team grow from both a technical and career perspective. Follow an agile methodology for rapid, nimble delivery.   What We Look For: Have at least 4 years of professional development experience, and have served as a technical lead (or manager) for at least a year. Enjoy mentoring other team members, including code reviews and tech talks Can balance deep work with cross team collaboration Enjoy writing code in a variety of languages Constantly learn from and mentor other engineers   What You Can Expect You would join a dynamic, multinational, and diverse team who enjoy solving interesting problems in a collaborative environment We have self-taught engineers as well as graduates from top Computer Science and Engineering schools Your co-workers will include motivated recent graduates as well as experienced industry leaders from companies such as Google and Amazon This position is eligible for remote working opportunities within the United Kingdom.  Don't worry if your experience or background doesn't match all of these areas, we believe a broad spectrum of experience provides great perspective on solving problems in new and innovative ways and we’d love to hear from you.  

This position is eligible for remote working opportunities within the United Kingdom.  About AlphaSights AlphaSights provides global investment and business professionals with on-demand access to business expertise across all industries and geographies. Through AlphaSights, decision makers from investment management, private equity, management consulting, and corporates connect with a dynamic network of industry experts that provide qualitative and quantitative market insights, industry expertise, and execution support. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and our global team of 1,000+ professionals in nine offices on three continents, we support our clients 24/7 around the globe. AlphaSights regularly ranks as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Learn more at alphasights.com . The Back End Role AlphaSights' Back End Engineers build features across our ecosystem of products and services, both internal and client facing. As a back end engineer, you will remove pain-points, optimise workflows, and enhance the intelligence and capabilities of our systems. 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. We're looking for people who are interested in building software systems to an incredibly high standard, comfortable working across multiple languages, and learn quickly when new technologies are introduced. We care more about your engineering skill versus your deep knowledge of a particular language or framework. Learn more about Tech at AlphaSights in this video . Learn more about our Engineering Team on our website.   You will: Diagnose complex issues across various levels of the stack Improve the performance of our applications Improve developer tooling and processes Work in small, nimble teams Understand our business context deeply and leverage your engineering knowledge to propose creative solutions to problems Contribute to our open source projects What We Look For Have 3+ years of industry experience Are able to write code in a high-level programming language.  Can balance deep work with cross-team collaboration Enjoy writing code in a variety of languages See yourself as an entrepreneur as well as an engineer Are you hesitant to submit an application because you're not sure if you check every box? Apply anyway! We’d love to hear from you and see how you can drive impact in our firm.  What You Can Expect You would join a dynamic, multinational, and diverse team who enjoy solving interesting problems in a collaborative environment We have self-taught engineers as well as graduates from top Computer Science and Engineering schools Your co-workers will include motivated recent graduates as well as experienced industry leaders from companies such as Google and Amazon Don't worry if your experience or background doesn't match all of these areas, we believe a broad spectrum of experience provides a great perspective on solving problems in new and innovative ways and we’d love to hear from you.