Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform & GenSearch Agent

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.

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

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.

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