Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform & GenSearch Agent
AI summary of the role
Hands-on Principal Engineer owning the financial data agent within AlphaSense's GenSearch platform, connecting AI reasoning to structured financial datasets and building web experiences for fundamentals, M&A, and screening.
What you’ll do
- Optimize orchestration between LLM workflows, structured datasets, and services
- Introduce performance benchmarks, observability standards, and SLO discipline
- Reduce fragmentation across datasets and services and partner with data platform teams to define scalable dataset integration patterns
- Contribute directly to backend and frontend systems powering financial data experiences and define durable contracts between AI-generated outputs and frontend consumers
What you’ll bring
- 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
Technologies
LLM orchestration · React · APIs · distributed systems · AI-integrated systems · retrieval · evaluation · observability · SLO
About AlphaSense
AI search and market intelligence over equity research, filings, expert calls, and news, used by enterprise strategy and investment teams.
Series F
Source and classification
Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:
majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us! About the Team: Our diverse Product & Engineering team values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous improvement of our platform. We offer a dynamic work environment where employees can grow and thrive while working on cutting-edge technology that shapes the future of AI and search. At AlphaSense, we believe that diverse experiences and perspectives are critical to our success. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves. About the Role: At AlphaSense, GenSearch is a production, customer-facing generative AI system delivering high-confidence answers across multiple
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About AlphaSense: The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us! About the Team: Our diverse Product & Engineering team values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous improvement of our platform. We offer a dynamic work environment where employees can grow and thrive while working on cutting-edge technology that shapes the future [... source excerpt omitted ...] ss. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves. About the Role: At AlphaSense, GenSearch is a production, customer-facing generative AI system delivering high-confidence answers across multiple domains. Our team owns the financial data agent within GenSearch — connecting AI reasoning to structured financial datasets — as well as the financial data web experiences that power fundamentals, M&A, screening, and other core capabilities. We are hiring a hands-on Principal Engineer to help us: Reduce latency in AI-powered financial answers Simplify fragmented and legacy-heavy architecture Improve cro [... source excerpt omitted ...] mic complexity This role sits at the intersection of AI systems, financial data infrastructure, and product-grade web development. Who You Are: 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 ini
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