Senior Principal Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About AlphaSense:&nbsp;</strong></h2> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&amp;P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!</span></p></div><div class="_1e0c1kw7 _2lx21kw7 _4cvr1kw7 _1bah1kw7" data-testid="ref-spotlight-target-global-spotlight-target-description"> <div class="_16jlkb7n _1o9zkb7n _i0dlf1ug _kqswh2mm"> <div class="_1bsb1osq"> <div class="_1runpxbi"> <div class="_1b0m53f4" data-editor-container-id="issue-description-editor"> <div data-testid="issue.views.field.rich-text.description"> <div class="_1bsb1osq _a4q3x0bf _1gzc1txw _auuz1h6o _1o4r1hna _osjgidpf _alyvidpf _2g9b12x7 _1bohze3t _pa3xze3t"> <div class="_otyr1ejb _3tcu1h67" data-component-selector="jira.issue-view.common.inline-edit.compact-wrapper-control">&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="_16jlkb7n _1o9zkb7n _i0dlf1ug _kqswh2mm"> <div class="_1bsb1osq"> <div class="_kqswh2mm"> <p><strong>The Role:</strong></p> <p>We are seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to drive the architectural strategy and technical execution across our 80+ engineer Application Portfolio, encompassing all Web, Mobile, and Headless surfaces. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role where you will set the vision for our technology transformation, bridging the gap between deep frontend architecture and scalable, agentic API-first platforms. You will partner with Product leadership to drive customer-obsessed engineering, ensuring that our technical choices directly accelerate product velocity and user value.</p> <br><strong>Responsibilities:</strong> <ul> <li><strong>Architectural Vision: </strong>Define and drive the technical strategy for the entire Applications Portfolio, establishing deep frontend architecture standards (Web, Mobile, Headless) to ensure consistency, scalability, and performance.</li> <li><strong>Mentorship &amp; Leadership: </strong>Act as a key mentor and coach to senior engineering talent, fostering a culture of technical excellence, high-impact decision-making, and proactive problem-solving.</li> <li><strong>Product-Engineering Synergy: </strong>Collaborate deeply with Product leadership to drive roadmaps, ensuring engineering strategy is inherently aligned with customer needs and product evolution.</li> <li><strong>Strategic Alignment: </strong>Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams regarding goals, outcomes, and timelines for complex, multi-team projects.</li> <li><strong>Technology Transformation: </strong>Spearhead the evolution of our application architecture from a 'feature factory' model to a platform-driven system, modernizing API layers and integrating emerging standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable next-generation agentic workflows.</li> <li><strong>Design Systems Partnership: </strong>Partner closely with Design Systems teams to define and influence the evolution of shared UI components and design tokens, ensuring seamless integration with engineering architectural standards.</li> <li><strong>Technical Governance: </strong>Identify and reduce systemic technical risks, enforce design principles, and raise the bar through hands-on technical reviews and prototyping.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Extensive experience (15+ years) as a senior/principal-level software engineer with deep expertise in Frontend architecture and large-scale application systems.</li> <li>Proven success leading technology transformation across organizations of 80+ engineers.</li> <li>Deep understanding of modern API design (REST, GraphQL) and its application in highly distributed, agentic environments.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar agent-integration patterns.</li> <li>Strong product mindset: proven history of collaborating with Product leaders to solve complex customer problems with customer-obsession.</li> <li>Ability to balance high-level architectural strategy with hands-on, production-level coding.</li> <li>Extensive experience evaluating and adopting new frontend technologies and frameworks, expertly balancing innovation with long-term maintainability.</li> <li>Proven track record of designing and scaling robust frontend architectures that support high-traffic, complex user interfaces across massive datasets.</li> </ul> <p><br>Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to facilitate clarity and drive consensus across distributed teams.</p> </div> <div class="_1runpxbi"> <div class="_1rre5xq6 _1f775xq6 _do8z5xq6 _4mh55xq6 _11mkidpf _gzzzidpf _z7alidpf _kkzzidpf _17ulkb7n _1rv1kb7n _hb7ckb7n _40x3kb7n _18nqkb7n _174ukb7n _exurkb7n _kmkbkb7n _1q6pkb7n _1ftxkb7n _1sqlkb7n _12opkb7n _2rko12b0 _otyr126e _1e0c1txw _4cvr1h6o _18u0r5cr _ca0q1b66 _u5f31b66 _n3td1b66 _19bv1b66 _1bsb1ns9 _irr3plhp">&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> </div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Recruiting Scams and Fraud</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We at AlphaSense have been made aware of fraudulent job postings and individuals impersonating AlphaSense recruiters. These scams may involve fake job offers, requests for sensitive personal information, or demands for payment. 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