AlphaSense
AlphaSense
AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform that helps organizations analyze public and private information for faster, more informed decisions. Its AI-powered tools bring together sources such as company filings, broker research, expert calls, market trends, internal data, and premium external content, supporting due diligence and research across financial services, healthcare, and technology. AlphaSense serves major corporations, financial institutions, and asset management firms with generative AI capabilities designed to surface relevant insights and reduce uncertainty.

Staff Software Engineer - India Remote

Lead backend architecture, scalable pipelines, and AI/ML production systems for AlphaSense’s enterprise market intelligence platform.

Description

  • Set technical direction, make build-versus-buy decisions, define architecture, and own the technical roadmap with product leadership
  • Translate ambiguous problems into scoped plans, identify risks, break down initiatives, and align teams
  • Design and deliver scalable pipelines, resilient services, and high-performance production systems
  • Use AI-assisted development tools including Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot
  • Evaluate and integrate production AI/ML capabilities such as LLMs, embeddings, and classification models
  • Lead cross-team technical initiatives, RFCs, architecture reviews, and consensus-building
  • Own systems from requirements through release and ongoing production operations
  • Monitor SLOs and SLIs, resolve production issues, and improve system reliability
  • Strengthen engineering practices through code reviews, mentoring, technical documentation, and example-setting

Requirements

  • Strong Python skills, with Python serving as the primary backend language
  • Production experience with at least two programming languages
  • Experience designing and owning production systems used by real users at scale
  • A record of making significant architectural decisions and owning their outcomes
  • Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives without formal authority
  • Strong system design judgment across failure modes, data flow, scalability, and operational cost
  • Deep DevOps and operations experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability
  • A track record of mentoring engineers and raising team standards
  • Willingness to complete a hands-on development session during the technical interview
  • Ability to navigate unfamiliar code, use AI tools critically, decompose problems, make incremental progress, and communicate trade-offs
  • Experience leading large-scale migrations or platform rewrites
  • Hands-on production AI/ML experience with LLMs, BERT, NLP pipelines, or document understanding systems
  • Experience with content processing, enrichment, or search systems at scale
  • Familiarity with Java
  • Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD, or Infrastructure as Code
  • Active practice of AI-assisted development (AIDLC)

Benefits

  • AlphaSense does not charge candidates for applications, equipment, or training
  • Equal-opportunity employer committed to a supportive, inspiring, and respectful workplace
  • Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified employees with protected disabilities as required by applicable law

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