Senior Principal Engineer

Overview

Senior Principal Engineer (individual contributor) driving architectural strategy and technical execution across AlphaSense’s 80+ engineer Applications Portfolio, covering Web, Mobile, and Headless surfaces.

What you'll do

• Define and drive technical strategy for the Applications Portfolio and frontend architecture standards (Web, Mobile, Headless).
• Mentor and coach senior engineering talent to foster technical excellence and proactive problem-solving.
• Collaborate with Product leadership to drive roadmaps aligned with customer needs and product evolution.
• Facilitate alignment across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines for complex multi-team projects.
• Spearhead application architecture evolution from a “feature factory” model to a platform-driven system.
• Partner with Design Systems teams to influence shared UI components and design tokens integration.
• Identify and reduce systemic technical risks through technical reviews and prototyping.

What you'll need

• 15+ years of experience as a senior/principal-level software engineer.
• Deep expertise in frontend architecture and large-scale application systems.
• Proven success leading technology transformation across organizations of 80+ engineers.
• Deep understanding of modern API design (REST, GraphQL) in distributed, agentic environments.
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar agent-integration patterns.
• Experience collaborating with Product leaders with a customer-obsessed product mindset.
• Ability to balance high-level architecture strategy with hands-on production coding.

Details

• Individual contributor role.