Experienced Frontend Software Engineer

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.

Position

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.

AlphaSights is 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

Your qualification

• 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

Additional details

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