Principal Engineer, Mobile Platform & Backend Systems
AlphaSenseResponsibilities
- Set technical direction for client-facing APIs and backend architecture supporting product workflows across web and mobile clients.
- Lead cross-organizational technical priorities and build alignment with engineering leaders, Product, and customers.
- Design, implement, and validate production services and subsystems spanning multiple teams, with an emphasis on reusable architectures.
- Evolve authentication, authorization, entitlements, session management, identity, and configuration services for web and mobile clients.
- Improve customer-visible reliability, performance, observability, and production validation across client and backend systems.
- Coach engineers, strengthen team technical judgment, and establish reusable engineering patterns.
Requirements
- Deep production experience with backend engineering and distributed systems, including service boundaries, data ownership, consistency, failure recovery, and integration models.
- Significant hands-on contributions to production code and system evolution, including the ability to understand unfamiliar codebases and make sound engineering decisions.
- Experience designing client-facing REST and GraphQL APIs with attention to business-logic placement, product states, backward compatibility, and mobile constraints.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, entitlements, session management, trust boundaries, and client-service security implications.
- Experience improving reliability and performance with practical observability and production-validation expertise.
- Demonstrated ability to lead consequential technical change across teams through influence rather than reporting authority.
- Product and stakeholder leadership experience connecting technical decisions to customer value and aligning senior leaders.
- Preferred experience with AI-powered search, research, or analysis workflows; enterprise identity and managed applications; multi-tenant configuration or service discovery; and event-driven or event-streaming architectures such as Kafka.
Benefits
- Distributed and flexible working arrangements with typical office attendance once per week in Helsinki.
- Relocation support for single employees, couples, and families.
- Private healthcare services from Terveystalo.
- Two weeks of vacation granted upfront, with the option to use additional days as they accrue.
- Access to a gym room, gaming room, free parking near the office, mobile phone and plan, lunch benefit, home internet, and remote-work equipment.
- Career opportunities and training.
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About AlphaSense
AlphaSense is the technology behind the business world’s most important decisions – from Wall Street to boardrooms across every major industry. Trusted by over 6,500 leading companies – including 88% of the S&P 100, 80% of top global banks, and all 20 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms – our AI search and market intelligence platform empowers business leaders to move faster and with greater confidence by delivering the right insights at the right moment. Whether investing, acquiring, advising, or launching, AlphaSense fuels the decisions where clarity creates competitive edge. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 2,500 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.