About the Orion Team
The Orion project transforms the way Preqin collects data and therefore impacts the entire business. The team moves fast and independently, and therefore also drives best practices across the entire Engineering department. Automation with Machine Learning and AI is at the core of the initiative.
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.
Department
Engineering
Employment Type
Permanent - Full Time
Location
London
Workplace type
Hybrid
Reporting To
VP, Engineering
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:
* 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. “Because we’ve always done it this way” is not a phrase you like to use
* 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
* Passion to improve the capacity of engineering teams to deliver value through collaboration, excellent tooling, and thin configurable services
Why join us?