Job Description
Job description
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: London
Reporting To: VP, Engineering
Description
At Preqin data is at the heart of everything we do, we operate a world class data research team and provide alternative asset data highly prized by thousands of customers worldwide. Preqin engineering is evolving into a fast-paced and autonomous culture, our Software Engineers have an opportunity to significantly accelerate these changes and help shape our organisation for the future.
Data literacy, product awareness, communication and initiative are core parts of your skillset, enabling you to deliver and maintain scalable, reliable and extensible product solutions. You’ll develop new features while extending our current services and tooling to support new products and improvements. You’ll actively take part in conversations about new product directions, technical and data architecture and software quality. You’ll be a true team player able to work closely with your peers on complex customer problems.
What You’ll Be Doing
• Champion a curious and diligent engineering mindset to enhance our platform capabilities
• Collaborate with cross functional teams within our Continuous Discovery practices, to develop a deep understanding of customer needs
• Build efficient and reusable services within a cloud native environment
• Focus acutely on quality, using best practice to deliver well designed and tested solutions
• Contribute to continuous improvement within working practices, teams and yourself
What You’ll Bring To Us
• You possess strong technical ability across the full stack: Ideally Python, JavaScript, Postgres, AWS
• You have some experience with a framework language such as Java or .Net, as our legacy system uses .Net
• You have knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines (including secrets management) and container orchestration software such as Kubernetes
• You are curious; willing to learn about new technologies, ways of working and acquire new skills in a truly “agile” mindset.
• You know that generating positive outcomes requires knowledge of the customer and the problem space to allow effective use of your technical knowledge ability
Why join us?
About Us
You will be joining the world’s leading data and insights provider for the alternative assets market. We empower the global financial community with critical information and leading analytics solutions to help them make faster and smarter investment decisions, and to make them with confidence. A forward-thinking company, we lead our industry through innovation. We trust in the power of data, and we use it to increase transparency in alternatives. We believe that access to information leads to more investment in the ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.
Our Culture
We centre our culture in our teams members growth, sparking their curiosity and fuelling their career adventures. We celebrate and recognise contribution, high performance and strong collaborative behaviours. We’re building and growing our learning programs, frameworks and tools to help people thrive and it's an exciting time to join us. We support our internal communities and donate our time, knowledge and support to the communities that surround our offices globally.
Equal opportunities
Preqin is an equal opportunity employer, with diversity at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, ****** orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
