Graduate Software Engineer

AlphaSights; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm based in London is seeking aspiring software engineers to join their Engineering team. The role involves designing technical solutions, shipping code with technologies like React and Kotlin, and maintaining high-quality services. Successful candidates will collaborate with product managers and designers, ensuring effective communication and supporting continuous improvement. The firm embraces diverse experience and is committed to equal opportunity.

Benefits

Learning and development budget

High-performance environment

Qualifications

• Strong passion for solving problems with code.
• Excellent communication skills for teamwork.
• Proactive and driven attitude towards excellent outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define the best technical solutions to business problems.
• Ship working code using React and Kotlin microservices.
• Deploy and iterate frequently based on customer feedback.
• Maintain and troubleshoot services by diagnosing errors.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

Python

React

CI/CD

Education

Pursuing a degree in Computer Science or a related field

Job description

The role:

We are looking for highly driven, aspiring software engineers who take pride in their work, to expand our Engineering team in London. Successful candidates will join a cross functional team including product managers and designers working closely with the rest of our business to deliver working code that solves real problems for both internal and external customers. You will take ownership of the problems that your team solves, ensuring a high level of quality in everything that we release, working as part of a top performing international development team. If you have a strong passion for solving problems with code, and want to work with exceptional colleagues in a high achievement environment, this role is a good fit for you.

What you’ll do:

• Design solutions: Define the best technical solutions to business problems, contributing to an architectural vision that will scale up to be the world's leading research platform.
• Ship working code: We primarily work with React on the frontend and Kotlin microservices with Postgres on the backend, with some older services written in Ruby on Rails. We’ve always got an eye open to assess new technologies that might improve our stack.
• Deploy and iterate: We release frequently to our customers, using CIrcleCI and Spinnaker for CI/CD, and quickly gather feedback in order to inform our next iteration.
• Build your competency: You will learn quickly by building market-leading technology with experienced colleagues in a high performance environment. Engineers can also use our L&D budget to fast-track development of specific technical competencies.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting: Carefully monitor our services, catching errors before users notice them, diagnosing the root cause and deploying fixes.

Who you are:

• You are pursuing a degree in Computer Science, or a related field.
• Technical expertise with Kotlin, Java or Python.
• Proven track record – you have clear accomplishments both in and out of university, standing out from your peers.
• You have practical experience, applying your technical skills in a professional environment.
• You have excellent communication skills, collaborating closely and effectively with teammates.
• Highly driven and proactive – you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes.
• Meticulous – you hold high standards and have an obsessive attention to detail.

Learn more about our tech organisation here.

Don't worry if your experience or background doesn't match all of these areas, we believe a broad spectrum of experience provides great perspective on solving problems in new and innovative ways and we’d love to hear from you.

AlphaSights is an equal opportunity employer.