Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform & GenSearch Agent

Overview

Principal Software Engineer on AlphaSense's GenSearch team, owning the financial data agent within GenSearch and the financial data web experiences that power fundamentals, M&A, screening and other core capabilities.

What you'll do

• 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

What you'll need

• 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

Details

• Remote, United States
• Compensation range $246,000 to $339,000 USD; equity and a generous benefits program may also be offered