Staff Software Engineer
AlphaSense7 hours ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and evolution of a major area of the entity data platform.
- Design systems that ingest and serve large volumes of heterogeneous vendor data with high reliability, freshness, and accuracy.
- Reduce manual validation through AI-assisted resolution, confidence scoring, provenance, and deterministic matching rules.
- Establish contracts for correctness and traceability, including source attribution and entity-matching rationale.
- Balance AI-driven and rules-based approaches to improve reliability and explainability.
- Deliver integrations across ingestion, matching, entity generation, and downstream delivery.
- Respond to production incidents and improve observability and reliability through iterative hardening.
- Set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner with product and downstream consumers on quality bars and success metrics.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale production systems.
- Proven experience with data ingestion, entity resolution, matching, or normalization at scale.
- Deep expertise in one or more of distributed systems, data pipelines, reference data platforms, platform engineering, or AI-powered classification and validation.
- Strong coding, system design, and architecture pattern skills.
- Ability to design trustworthy systems combining probabilistic AI and deterministic approaches.
- Experience with incident response, observability, and sustained reliability improvements.
- Effective use of AI, testing, automation, and tooling to ship confidently.
- Track record of setting standards, driving technical decisions, documenting systems, and mentoring engineers.
- Experience evolving or re-platforming live systems with many downstream consumers.
- Preferred experience with company or financial reference data, vendor reconciliation, provenance, lineage, confidence scoring, quarantine or resolution workflows, end-to-end data vendor integration, cloud-native architectures, or internal platforms shared across teams.
Benefits
- Equity may be offered.
- Generous benefits program.
- Base compensation is listed in Canadian dollars and may vary based on location, experience, and expertise.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.