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[Remote] Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform & GenSearch Agent
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AlphaSense is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to build and evolve the financial data agent within its GenSearch generative AI system and the web experiences that use structured financial datasets. The role focuses on improving AI response performance and reliability, simplifying architecture, delivering financial data product capabilities, and leading technical initiatives across engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Reduce fragmentation across datasets and services
- Partner with data platform teams to define scalable dataset integration patterns
- Remove legacy complexity while continuing to ship
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- You may also be offered equity.
- A generous benefits program.
- Remote - United States
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