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About The Role

PEI Group is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our engineering team in New York. You'll work closely with engineers across PEI Group build out the next generation of our global infrastructure: the platforms and services that power our application across regions and teams.

This is a hands-on technical role. You'll shape architecture and help set engineering standards.
 
Responsibilities:
  • Design, build, and operate backend services and infrastructure that scale across PEI Group's global footprint
  • Shape system architecture for the next generation of PEI's global platforms and services, working across regions and teams
  • Write clear technical specifications up front and drive work from spec through implementation, testing, and release
  • Partner with product, platform, and engineering leads to translate business needs into well-scoped technical plans
  • Help set and raise engineering standards and best practices across the engineering team
  • Lead design discussions and explain technical trade-offs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
  • Stay hands-on in the codebase, contributing across the stack using languages such as Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, PHP, and Python
  • Improve the reliability and visibility of services through strong use of observability tooling
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About You

Qualification & Experience 

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Experience working with a variety of programming languages including node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, PHP, and Python
  • Understanding of observability tooling
  • Strong communication skills: you can write a clear spec, lead a design discussion, and explain trade-offs to non-engineers.
  • Experience with TypeScript, Cloud Platform CWS, infrastructure-as-code, spec-driven development, and Headless CMS is highly desirable.

About Us

PEI Group is the leading global provider of business intelligence, data, analytics, and events for private markets professionals.

Through meticulously sourced data, deep analytical expertise, and a trusted journalistic heritage, PEI delivers vital intelligence to sharpen the decision-making of more than 30,000 investors, asset managers, and service providers.

With over two decades of strong growth, PEI operates across ten asset classes including private equity, private credit, private real estate, and private infrastructure, through our portfolio of premium research platforms, membership networks, and global events.

Our 500-strong team operating from six offices, equips private market professionals with the relationships, opportunities, and critical market insights they need to navigate evolving markets and achieve stronger investment outcomes.

Benefits:
  • 24 days of annual leave (increasing with tenure), plus 9 paid holidays
  • 56 hours of sick leave and the last week of the year off globally
  • Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Nationwide medical coverage through anthem blue cross blue shield, with at least one plan covered at no cost for you and your dependants
  • Dental, vision, FSA & HSA options, plus voluntary benefits (commuter, disability, legal and pet insurance)
  • 401k with 3% employer match through Empower – eligible from day one – no wait period
  • 4 paid volunteer days per year and access to EAP and Health Advocate resources
  • Participation in our Employee Incentive Reward plan (EIRP), with unit allocations tied to a future private equity exit

We strive to ensure that opportunities to work and develop at PEI Group are fair, inclusive, and open to all. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, or gender expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other equality characteristic.

PEI Group supports flexible working arrangements, and we welcome career returners.

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