Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform & GenSearch Agent
AlphaSense13 days ago
Base Salary
$246k - $339k/yr
Responsibilities
- Reduce latency in AI-powered financial answers.
- Simplify fragmented and legacy-heavy architecture.
- Improve cross-dataset querying and screening.
- Ship new datasets and product capabilities without increasing systemic complexity.
- Optimize orchestration between LLM workflows, structured datasets, and services.
- Introduce performance benchmarks, observability standards, and SLO discipline.
- Improve reliability and correctness of AI-backed financial responses.
- Partner with data platform teams to define scalable dataset integration patterns.
- Contribute directly to backend and frontend systems powering financial data experiences.
- Drive technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
Requirements
- 12+ years building and operating production systems.
- Experience operating at a Staff or Principal level.
- Proven ability to simplify complex systems and reduce architectural entropy.
- Strong background in distributed systems and performance optimization.
- Experience building AI-integrated systems.
- Comfortable working across backend systems and modern frontend frameworks.
- Experienced designing APIs and durable service contracts.
- Effective at driving cross-team technical initiatives.
Tech Stack
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