Principal Mobile Platform & Backend Architect

AlphaSense India; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Accommodation policy

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a professional in London to join our Mobile Backend Architecture team, shaping the backend systems behind our AI-powered search platform. You will lead cross-team initiatives across application, search and AI groups, designing scalable endpoints and secure identity approaches for both Web and Mobile clients.

You will translate customer needs into robust architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver production services that scale as the product evolves.

Qualifications

• Deep production backend and distributed-systems expertise with cross-team impact.
• Strong hands-on engineering and production code contributions.
• Experience designing client-facing REST and GraphQL APIs with mobile constraints.
• Expertise in authentication, authorization, and session management.

Responsibilities

• Shape backend systems and API architecture for client experiences.
• Lead across engineering to align priorities and architecture.
• Deliver production-ready services that span teams and systems.
• Develop shared identity/config services with mobile clients.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

REST/GraphQL APIs

Security & Auth

Observability

Technical leadership

Stakeholder alignment

Tools

Auth0

Microsoft identity

Kafka

Job description

AlphaSense is seeking a professional in London to join our Mobile Backend Architecture team, shaping the backend systems behind our AI-powered search platform. You will lead cross-team initiatives across application, search and AI groups, designing scalable endpoints and secure identity approaches for both Web and Mobile clients.

You will translate customer needs into robust architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver production services that scale as the product evolves.