AlphaSense
The market intelligence and search platform trusted by over 3,500 leading organizations
Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform – GenSearch Agent
Location
United States
Posted
12 days ago
Salary
$246K - $339K / year
12 yrs expEnglishDistributed SystemsReact
Job Description
• 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
• Reduce fragmentation across datasets and services
• Partner with data platform teams to define scalable dataset integration patterns
• Remove legacy complexity while continuing to ship
• Contribute directly to backend and frontend systems powering financial data experiences
• Define durable contracts between AI-generated outputs and frontend consumers
• Ensure performance and usability at both API and product layers
• Drive technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams
• Align stakeholders on service boundaries and system design decisions
• Raise the bar for system design, reliability, and operational rigor.
Job 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 (LLM orchestration, tool usage, retrieval, evaluation)
- Comfortable working across backend systems and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React)
- Experienced designing APIs and durable service contracts
- Effective at driving cross-team technical initiatives.
Benefits
- You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program.