Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

London, England, United Kingdom

12/18/2024

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Reporting To: Engineering Manager

Description

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 helping to 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

• 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.
• Build efficient and reusable services that have cross organisational use.
• Focus acutely on quality, using best practice to deliver well designed and tested solutions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement within working practices, teams and yourself.
• Operate autonomously to proactively seek out optimal technological solutions by collaborating with various stakeholders internal and external.
  
  

What You’ll Bring To Us

• You possess strong technical ability across the full stack: C# and .NET core, python, REACT.JS and Postgres are our main technologies, with AWS as our cloud provider.
• 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 possessing a growth 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.
• You are passionate about improving the capacity of engineering teams to deliver value through collaboration, excellent tooling and thin configurable services.
  
  

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, sexual 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.