AlphaSense

The market intelligence and search platform trusted by over 3,500 leading organizations

Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform – GenSearch Agent

Full TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2011H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

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.

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