Senior Software Engineer (Platform, Orion), Greater London
Client: Preqin
Location: Greater London, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 49e444ebcb1a
Job Views: 6
Posted: 01.03.2025
Expiry Date: 15.04.2025
Job Description:
About the Orion Team
The Orion project transforms the core of Preqin by changing the way we collect data. The team moves fast and independently, while also contributing to setting best practices across teams. We combine automation with Machine Learning and AI and with advanced data and engineering solutions.
Job Overview
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.
Working in the platform team, you will be responsible for the technical excellence of our platform services, shaping, collaborating, and creating new and changing existing implementations as necessary to raise the bar technically and improve the way we manage our services. In platform, we own some of the business-critical services such as authentication as well as a series of new work streams focused on user management, data management, and architectural oversight. You will also work with technical teams across the business supporting them to build, and implementing yourself, a variety of technological solutions.
The platform team is critical to the success of Preqin’s technology strategy, providing the foundations for cross-team services and enablement for teams located in other business units. The team has recently adopted this direction and there is tremendous opportunity to impact the way we do technology at Preqin and help contribute to Preqin’s mission to unleash the power of data, increasing transparency in alternative assets and empowering the finance community to make better decisions across the global alternatives market.
What you’ll be doing:
* Accelerate data collection at scale from millions of sources.
* Design, build, and deploy workflows at scale that seamlessly combine AI/ML with human expertise.
* Elevate development standards and empower others to adopt them through re-usable services, frameworks, templates, and knowledge sharing.
* Collaborate with engineering teams across the business to improve time to value and to ensure that the best options for internal technical solutions are known.
* Explore new technologies, approaches, and ideas that help to drive our business goals in unexpected ways.
What you’ll bring to us:
* Strong technical ability across the full stack:
o Backend: Python (FastAPI, pydantic)
o Frontend: REACT JS (webpack module federation, MFEs)
o Databases: postgres, Snowflake
o Cloud: AWS resources such as EC2, secrets manager, ECR, RDS, CloudWatch
* Knowledge and experience using infrastructure as code (terraform), CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration software such as Kubernetes with package managers such as HELM.
* A “let’s do it” and “challenge accepted” attitude when faced with the less known or challenging tasks.
* Ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment, developing iterative sustainable solutions with best practices (security, code quality, documentation) and long-term vision.
* Curiosity and willingness to learn about new technologies, ways of working and acquire new skills possessing a growth mindset.
* Understanding that generating positive outcomes requires knowledge of the stakeholder and the problem space to allow effective use of your technical knowledge ability.
* Passion to improve the capacity of engineering teams to deliver value through collaboration, excellent tooling, and thin configurable services.
* Excitement to collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues across teams.
* Qualifications are not as essential as experience. If you feel you have work examples and projects that illustrate what we need, we’re happy to have a conversation.
Why join us?
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London, United Kingdom
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