ABOUT ALPHASENSE: 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. 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&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! The Role: 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. Responsibilities: * Architectural Vision: 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. * Mentorship & Leadership: 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. * Product-Engineering Synergy: Collaborate deeply with Product leadership to drive roadmaps, ensuring engineering strategy is inherently aligned with customer needs and product evolution. * Strategic Alignment: Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams regarding goals, outcomes, and timelines for complex, multi-team projects. * Technology Transformation: 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. * Design Systems Partnership: 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. * Technical Governance: Identify and reduce systemic technical risks, enforce design principles, and raise the bar through hands-on technical reviews and prototyping. Requirements: * Extensive experience (15+ years) as a senior/principal-level software engineer with 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) and its application in highly distributed, agentic environments. * Demonstrated experience with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar agent-integration patterns. * Strong product mindset: proven history of collaborating with Product leaders to solve complex customer problems with customer-obsession. * Ability to balance high-level architectural strategy with hands-on, production-level coding. * Extensive experience evaluating and adopting new frontend technologies and frameworks, expertly balancing innovation with long-term maintainability. * Proven track record of designing and scaling robust frontend architectures that support high-traffic, complex user interfaces across massive datasets. Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to facilitate clarity and drive consensus across distributed teams. 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. 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. Recruiting Scams and Fraud 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. Please note: * AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training. * All official communications will come from an @alpha-sense.com email address. * If you’re unsure about a job posting or recruiter, verify it on our Careers page. If you believe you’ve been targeted by a scam or have any doubts regarding the authenticity of any job listing purportedly from or on behalf of AlphaSense please contact us. Your security and trust matter to us.

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