Principal Software Engineer - Product Platforms
AlphaSenseResponsibilities
- Own and advance API-first architecture across the company through hands-on technical contribution.
- Design, build, and evolve high-scale APIs for internal teams, external customers, and intelligent agents.
- Lead development of agentic workflows, including orchestration, state management, tooling, and integration patterns.
- Drive API standards, design principles, and best practices through implementation and technical reviews.
- Solve complex cross-team problems involving ambiguous requirements and real-world constraints.
- Partner with Product, Platform, and SRE teams to make APIs reliable, observable, secure, and scalable.
- Identify and reduce systemic technical risks while enabling faster team execution.
- Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar through example rather than hierarchy.
Requirements
- Extensive experience as a senior staff- or principal-level software engineer working on applications and backend systems.
- Experience building product platforms or shared services consumed by multiple product teams.
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating APIs at scale.
- Strong hands-on experience with RESTful APIs.
- Some experience designing, using, or operating GraphQL in production.
- Deep understanding of system design, performance, reliability, and system evolution.
- Strong hands-on contribution and ownership of production systems.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams through credibility and execution.
- Experience building or enabling agentic or AI-driven workflows is preferred.
- Familiarity with MCP or similar agent integration patterns is preferred.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems is preferred.
- Exposure to API governance, versioning strategies, and backward compatibility at scale is preferred.
- Experience working closely with platform and SRE teams is preferred.
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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.