Principal Software Engineer – Product Platforms

🕒 July 8

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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AlphaSense

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

💰 Debt Financing on 2022-06

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform that empowers companies to unlock critical insights across an extensive universe of public and private content, including company filings, broker research, expert calls, and market trends. Its AI-driven technology affords users the ability to conduct comprehensive due diligence with speed and accuracy, reducing uncertainty and blind spots in decision-making. Trusted by major corporations, financial institutions, and asset management firms globally, AlphaSense serves sectors such as financial services, health care, and technology by providing generative AI-powered solutions that integrate internal proprietary data with external premium content.

📋 Description

• Act as a technical owner and force multiplier for API-first architecture across the company • Design, build, and evolve high-scale APIs used by internal teams, external customers, and intelligent agents • Lead the development of agentic workflows, including orchestration, state management, tooling, and integration patterns • Drive API standards, design principles, and best practices through hands-on work and technical reviews • Tackle complex cross-team problems where requirements are ambiguous, and constraints are real • Partner with Product, Platform, and SRE teams to ensure APIs are reliable, observable, secure, and scalable • Identify and reduce systemic technical risks while enabling teams to move faster • Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar through example, not hierarchy

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience as a senior staff/principal-level software engineer working on applications and backend systems • Experience building product platforms or shared services consumed by multiple product teams • Proven track record of designing, building, and operating APIs at scale • Strong hands-on experience with RESTful APIs • Some experience with GraphQL (design, usage, or operating in production) • Deep understanding of system design, performance, reliability, and evolution over time • Strong bias toward hands-on contribution and ownership of real systems • Ability to influence technical direction across teams through credibility and execution

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Reasonable accommodation for qualified employees • Protection against recruitment scams