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Aluma

Cambridge

Founded 2009

Employees 11 - 50

Data Management

Automation Software

Who are Aluma

We are a Cambridge (UK) based B2B tech company with a core of expertise in applying AI to make sense of unstructured information found in documents. Our cloud platform automatically classifies, interrogates, and extracts information from documents using a proprietary suite of AI tools. During the last two years, this 11-person company has doubled revenue each year and now we find ourselves at an inflexion point where that growth will certainly accelerate, and we need help! We operate at a fast pace, with updates to our cloud platform occurring sometimes daily, and with customers across the Americas and Europe going live with new projects weekly. Most importantly, we expect every member of the team to possess a Founder's Mentality, and we will treat you that way as well!

Life at

Aluma

Culture overview

Our culture at Aluma is built on four core values: People First, Innovative, Ethical, and Balanced. Everything we do is aimed at improving people’s lives—whether through the solutions we create or the way we work together. Innovation drives us; we combine advanced document automation and machine learning with practical, real-world impact. We hold ourselves to high ethical standards—honesty, transparency, and fairness are non-negotiable. We value each individual’s potential and promote a healthy work–life balance. Led by experienced and curious founders, our team is mature, technically strong, and united by a shared commitment to making a positive difference.

Employee benefits

Flexible Hours

Flexible Working

Laptop

Learning/Development days

Wellbeing Programme

Work anywhere

Office vibe

Remote-first

Social Events

Team Building Days

Location

Tech at

Aluma

Leadership

Mark WightmanCTO

Tech overview

In building our cloud-native platform from the bottom up, we’ve chosen to work with technologies that both solve our challenges and are rewarding & enjoyable to work with. Our backend services are written in Go with PostgreSQL databases, deployed on Kubernetes in GCP and AWS, with redis, temporal.io, timescale and a few other third party services. Some of our core technology is written in C# and C++. Our web apps are written in Svelte and Typescript. We try to ensure our dev and test loop is short and frictionless. We're always on the lookout for other technologies and tools that will give us an advantage, and are able to move fast when we find those. Recent examples include the use of Google Gemini LLMs within our core data extraction, the adoption of TimescaleDB for storing & querying customer analytics data, and exploring how we can most effectively utilise AI coding and code review assistants.

Engineering principles

Agile Process

Automated acceptance testing

Code Reviews

Collective code ownership

Communication and collaboration

Continuous delivery

Infrastructure as code

Rapid release cycles

Unit testing

Company tech stack