Software Engineer (Front End)

 (3+ years exp)
Published: 4 weeks ago
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Alation

Custom data solutions to help make sense and leverage your data

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Job Type

Full Time

Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

Relocation

Allowed

The Role

What do we do as a company?
Alation is building a data-fluent world by changing the way people find, understand, and trust data. The first to bring a data catalog to market, Alation combines machine learning and human collaboration to bring confidence to data-driven decisions. More than 100 organizations, including eBay, Munich Re and Pfizer, leverage the Alation Data Catalog. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation is funded by Costanoa Ventures, Data Collective, Harmony Partners, Icon Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Sapphire Ventures. For more information, visit alation.com.

Job Scope:
Alation is seeking a talented and highly technical Software Engineer (Front End) to join our fast growing team in Chennai, India. The ideal candidate will communicate fearlessly to build trust. We need leaders who take active roles in shaping the future of engineering while embodying our core values.

What does the Enterprise Readiness team do?
Enterprise Readiness (ER) team is an integral part of the Alation Engineering team as it is responsible for the delivery of a packaged product for our customers. ER team enables our customers to configure a highly available instance with seamless backup, restore, monitoring including ownership of a portal for install distribution.

Alation's Enterprise Readiness team also helps our customers with license and permission enforcement along with encryption services.

As part of the Enterprise Readiness team, you will:
Build, enhance, and maintain our customer portal web application with React and Django
Support new initiatives to improve instance tracking for Alation along with easy provisioning
Maintain a comprehensive test suite with Jasmine and Selenium
Collaborate with our product design team to provide the highest quality user experience
Make smart scoping and priority decisions to ship fast, impactful code
Work directly with users to integrate feedback into designs and priorities
You may be a perfect fit if you:
Have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Have strong experience with Javascript.
Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience designing, developing, and shipping software products and services with a distributed backend.
Experience building web applications with scalable web architecture in working closely with operations to deliver an unparallel user experience.
Experience with AWS products Like EC2, RDS, etc is a plus.
Have experience building single page applications - React JS and Django are a huge plus
Understand how to translate business requirements and “user needs” into code
Are adaptable and prepared for a fast-paced, evolving, growing, and dynamic environment
Have strong Git skills while working with an Agile team
Are able to identify solutions that improve the quality of service and reduce operational and support burden
You have a passion for elegance and simplicity.
You take pride in designing solutions that will outlive the problem.
More About Alation
Our founders have come together from different backgrounds: business, engineering, and design. This unique mix from our founding team is important to the Alation culture story. Today, our team consists of creators and communicators with varied backgrounds - from Stanford, to the Indian Institute of Technology, big companies and one-person startups, the United States, and abroad. We continue to seek ever more diverse perspectives as we grow.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, name, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, mar

More about Alation

Funding

AMOUNT RAISED
$315M
FUNDED OVER
6 rounds
Rounds
E
$123,000,000
Series E Nov 2022
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Founders

Venky Ganti
Founder • 3 years
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Aaron Kalb
Founder • 3 years • 11 years
San Francisco
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Satyen Sangani
Founder • 3 years
Silicon Valley
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