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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.
You will be joining the world’s leading data and insights provider for the alternatives assets industry. We empower the finance community with comprehensive data and expert insights so they can make faster and smarter investment decisions with precision and confidence. We are a forward-thinking company and strive to make an impact by enabling our customers to envision future possibilities, invest in ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.
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.
Responsibilities: In this role you will:
- 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.
You are a good fit if:
- 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
Company Benefits:
- The opportunity to work within a well-regarded organisation in a fast-growing sector.
- Develop your career in a high growth company with an international presence.
- Subsidised Private Medical Insurance via BUPA, after successful completion of 3 months should you wish to.
- Interest-free season ticket loans on completion of probation.
- A pension plan under auto-enrolment which currently requires a minimum employee contribution of 5% of annual salary. This is matched by an employer contribution of 4%. You can opt to contribute more should you wish to. After your 1-year service with the company the employer contribution will be enhanced to match your contribution up to a maximum of 10% of your pensionable earnings. This means that if you are contributing the minimum contribution of 5%, after your 1-year service, Preqin will automatically uplift the company contribution to 5% of annual salary.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Study support of up to £900 per annum for relevant business qualifications and enhanced support of up to $2,500 for CAIA.
- Excellent Offices in London close to Victoria station and the proximity to many shops and restaurants and London’s West End.
- Company-sponsored sports teams.
- Winter and summer office parties and a company-funded team social budget.
Our culture and values are:
Be Customer obsessed
We exist for our customers. We listen to them and understand their challenges. We design best-in-class data solutions for their success.
Act with integrity
We build trust through honesty and transparency. We’re committed to doing the right thing for our customers, our company, and each other.
Own your success
We’re a high-performance team. We challenge and champion each other in our pursuit of excellence. We never stop learning and strive to become experts in our fields
Think forward
We lead the industry through innovation. We foster collaboration and creativity to solve our clients’ next challenge and give them a competitive advantage.
Make an impact
We drive positive change as individuals, and as a company. We’re passionate about creating a better tomorrow for our industry and our communities.
Equal Opportunities at Preqin:
Preqin is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is 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. Preqin is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, so everyone has the opportunity to be successful. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please let the Preqin recruiter know at the start of the application process. Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process
