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AlphaSights

Mid-level Backend Engineer (Remote)

RemoteBrazil, United Kingdom only
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Role
Backend
Experience
Mid
Salary not disclosed
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Mid-level backend engineer for Kotlin-based microservices and Postgres; experience with CI/CD and production service maintenance. Remote role limited to current Brazilian residents; employer cannot sponsor visas. Looking for candidates with prior experience in a mature engineering team and demonstrable impact.

Core skills

KotlinPostgreSQLmicroservices

Required skills

CI/CDCircleCISpinnakerRubyRelational databases

Optional skills

Ruby on RailsLLM APIsOpenAI SDKAI-assisted workflows

What you'll do

  • Design solutions: Define the best technical solutions to business problems, contributing to an architectural vision that will scale up to be the world's leading research platform.
  • Ship working code: We primarily work with React on the frontend and Kotlin microservices with Postgres on the backend, with some older services written in Ruby on Rails.
  • Deploy and iterate: We release frequently to our customers, using CIrcleCI and Spinnaker for CI/CD, and quickly gather feedback in order to inform our next iteration.
  • Build your competency: You will learn quickly by building market-leading technology with experienced colleagues in a high performance environment.
  • Maintenance and troubleshooting: Carefully monitor our services, catching errors before users notice them, diagnosing the root cause and deploying fixes.
  • Define the best technical solutions to business problems, contributing to an architectural vision that will scale up to be the world's leading research platform.
  • Ship working code.
  • Release frequently to customers using CIrcleCI and Spinnaker for CI/CD, and quickly gather feedback to inform the next iteration.
  • Learn quickly by building market-leading technology with experienced colleagues in a high performance environment.
  • Carefully monitor services, catching errors before users notice them, diagnosing the root cause and deploying fixes.

What they require

  • You probably have a degree in a STEM subject, but we’re happy to work with people who perfected their craft via a different route.
  • Experience working at a similar level in a mature Engineering team, and looking to take your career to the next level.
  • Technical expertise with at least one programming language (we use Kotlin and a bit of Ruby).
  • Ideally experience with relational databases.
  • Experience in modern AI technologies is a plus (e.g., integrating LLM APIs such as OpenAI SDK, building AI-assisted workflows).
  • Proven track record – You’ve made a demonstrable impact in your previous roles.
  • Highly driven and proactive – you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes.
  • Meticulous – you hold high standards and have an obsessive attention to detail.
  • Technical expertise with at least one programming language; the team uses Kotlin and a bit of Ruby.
  • Proven track record — you’ve made a demonstrable impact in your previous roles, standing out from your peers.
  • Highly driven and proactive — you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes.
  • Meticulous — you hold high standards and have an obsessive attention to detail.
  • Unable to sponsor visas for this position.
  • Remote position exclusively for current UK residents.

Benefits

  • Engineers can use the L&D budget to fast-track development of specific technical competencies.

AlphaSights is building a research platform.

Details

Visa sponsorshipNo
Salary not disclosed