Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform & GenSearch Agent
AlphaSense5 months ago
Base Salary
$246k - $339k/yr
Responsibilities
- Optimize orchestration between LLM workflows, structured datasets, and services to reduce latency.
- Introduce performance benchmarks, observability standards, and SLO discipline while improving reliability and correctness of AI-backed financial responses.
- Reduce fragmentation across datasets and services and define scalable dataset integration patterns with data platform teams.
- Remove legacy complexity while continuing to ship new datasets and product capabilities.
- Contribute directly to backend and frontend systems powering financial data experiences.
- Define durable contracts between AI-generated outputs and frontend consumers and ensure performance and usability at API and product layers.
- Drive technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams and align stakeholders on service boundaries and system design decisions.
- Raise the bar for system design, reliability, and operational rigor.
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 involving LLM orchestration, tool usage, retrieval, and evaluation.
- Experience working across backend systems and modern frontend frameworks such as React.
- Experience designing APIs and durable service contracts.
- Ability to drive cross-team technical initiatives.
Benefits
- Equity may be offered.
- Generous benefits program.
Tech Stack
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About AlphaSense
AlphaSense builds an AI-powered market intelligence and search platform used by investment, corporate strategy, and research teams to find insights across public and private content (equity research, filings, transcripts, expert calls, news, and internal documents). It sells enterprise subscriptions to its SaaS platform and content sets. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held and acquired Tegus in 2024; its customers include a majority of the S&P 500.