Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform – GenSearch Agent

🕒 February 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $246k - $339k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data 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

• 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.

🎯 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.