Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform & GenSearch Agent

AlphaSense; United States; Remote; USD 246,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to join the GenSearch team, leading efforts to optimize AI-powered financial answers and scale our data infrastructure. You will own cross‑dataset orchestration and contribute to both backend services and frontend interfaces.

In this role, you will collaborate with data, platform, and product teams to improve performance, reliability, and the user experience, shaping durable contracts between AI outputs and frontend consumers.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and operating production systems.
• Experience operating at a Staff or Principal level.
• Strong background in distributed systems and performance optimization.
• Experience building AI-integrated systems (LLM orchestration, tool usage, retrieval, evaluation)

Responsibilities

• Improve AI and performance by optimizing LLM orchestration and data flows.
• Simplify architecture by reducing fragmentation across datasets and services.
• Build and evolve web products, ensuring durable API contracts and performance.
• Lead across teams by aligning stakeholders on system design and reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Production systems

Performance optimization

LLM orchestration

API design

React frontend

Staff/Principal level

Cross-team leadership

Tools

React

Job description

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 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 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 cross‑dataset querying and screening
• Ship new datasets and product capabilities without increasing systemic 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 initiatives

What You’ll Do:

Improve AI & Performance

• 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

Simplify Architecture

• Reduce fragmentation across datasets and services
• Partner with data platform teams to define scalable dataset integration patterns
• Remove legacy complexity while continuing to ship

Build & Evolve Web Products

• 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

Lead Across Teams

• 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

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.

You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program.

Compensation Range

$246,000—$339,000 USD

AlphaSense is an equal‑opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non‑merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.