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# TELECOMMUTE Principal Software Engineer, Financial Data Platform & GenSearch Agent

- **Company:** AlphaSense, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $246,000.0 - $339,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Performance Tuning, Web Application Frameworks, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Backend, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** June 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/3920b557-e570-411e-8b20-0dc8471052c4

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

At AlphaSense, GenSearch is a production, customer-facing generative AI system delivering high-confidence answers across multiple domains. Our team owns the financial data agent within GenSearch - connecting AI reasoning to structured financial datasets - as well as the financial data web experiences that power fundamentals, M&A, screening, and other core capabilities., We are hiring a hands-on Principal Engineer to help us:

 * Reduce latency in AI-powered financial answers
 * Simplify fragmented and legacy-heavy architecture
 * Improve cross-dataset querying and screening
 * Ship new datasets and product capabilities without increasing systemic complexity, Improve AI & Performance
 * 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

Simplify Architecture

 * Reduce fragmentation across datasets and services
 * Partner with data platform teams to define scalable dataset integration patterns
 * Remove legacy complexity while continuing to ship

Build & Evolve Web Products

 * 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

Lead Across Teams

 * 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

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.


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