Staff Software Engineer: AI-Driven Systems Architect

Alphasenseindia; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own technical direction, mentor teams, and build scalable backend services and data pipelines powering AI-driven market intelligence. The role emphasizes turning ambiguous problems into concrete architectural strategies and delivering end-to-end solutions that scale to thousands of users.

You will drive RFCs, own production reliability, and Push the engineering bar higher across the organization, leveraging Kubernetes and cloud platforms

Qualifications

• Strong in Python and production backend development.
• Experience designing and owning large-scale production systems.
• Led cross-team initiatives without formal authority.
• Deep DevOps and operational experience with cloud platforms.
• Mentored engineers and raised team standards.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and define architecture roadmaps.
• Break down ambiguous problems and drive distributed initiatives.
• Design and deliver scalable data pipelines and services.
• Apply AI/ML capabilities where appropriate in production systems.
• Lead architecture reviews and RFCs, and maintain reliability.

Skills

Python

Cross-team leadership

System design

DevOps

Mentoring engineers

AI/ML awareness

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

AlphaSense is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own technical direction, mentor teams, and build scalable backend services and data pipelines powering AI-driven market intelligence. The role emphasizes turning ambiguous problems into concrete architectural strategies and delivering end-to-end solutions that scale to thousands of users.

You will drive RFCs, own production reliability, and Push the engineering bar higher across the organization, leveraging Kubernetes and cloud platforms