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) — AlphaSense

Lead backend architecture, scalable pipelines, and production systems for AlphaSense’s AI-powered market intelligence platform. Shape technical direction, integrate AI/ML capabilities, and coordinate engineering initiatives across teams.

Description

  • Define technical strategy, guide build-versus-buy decisions, establish architecture, and maintain the technical roadmap with product leaders.
  • Turn ambiguous problems into scoped initiatives, surface risks, sequence deliverables, and align teams around execution.
  • Build and ship scalable data pipelines, resilient services, and high-performance production systems.
  • Apply AI-assisted development tools, including Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.
  • Assess and productionize AI/ML capabilities such as large language models, embeddings, and classification models.
  • Drive cross-functional technical programs, RFCs, architecture reviews, and agreement on major engineering decisions.
  • Take ownership of systems from initial requirements through release and ongoing production operations.
  • Track SLOs and SLIs, resolve production incidents, and strengthen system reliability.
  • Improve engineering quality through reviews, mentoring, technical documentation, and sound modeling practices.
  • Work effectively in unfamiliar codebases, break down complex problems, make incremental progress, and explain trade-offs during technical interviews.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated strength in Python, the primary backend language.
  • Professional production experience delivering software in at least two programming languages.
  • Experience designing and owning production systems used by real customers at scale.
  • A history of making significant architectural decisions and being accountable for their outcomes.
  • Experience leading technical initiatives across teams without relying on formal authority.
  • Strong system design judgment across failure handling, data movement, scalability, and operating cost.
  • Advanced operational and DevOps experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, CI/CD, and observability.
  • Evidence of mentoring engineers and improving engineering standards across a team.
  • Experience with large-scale migrations or platform rewrites is preferred.
  • Practical AI/ML experience in production, including LLMs, BERT, NLP pipelines, or document-understanding systems, is preferred.
  • Experience establishing engineering-wide standards, practices, or tooling is preferred.
  • Experience building content processing, enrichment, or search systems at scale is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Java is preferred.
  • Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD, or infrastructure as code is preferred.
  • Regular use of AI-assisted development tools in day-to-day engineering work is preferred.

Benefits

  • AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer dedicated to a supportive and respectful workplace.
  • Qualified employees with protected disabilities may receive reasonable accommodation as required by applicable law.
  • AI tools are provided and configured for the technical interview.

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