About the job
About AlphaSense:
AlphaSense is trusted by the world's leading companies to enhance decision-making through unparalleled market intelligence. By leveraging advanced AI technologies, AlphaSense provides crucial insights derived from a reliable array of public and private content, including equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news articles, trade journals, and proprietary client research.
With the acquisition of Tegus in 2024, we are poised to further our mission of empowering professionals to make informed decisions through AI-enhanced market intelligence. This collaboration will drive innovation, accelerate growth, and expand our content capabilities, allowing users to extract more comprehensive insights from a plethora of resources. Our platform serves over 6,000 enterprise clients, including a significant number of S&P 500 companies. Established in 2011 and headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense has a global workforce of over 2,000 employees across various locations, including the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Join us in shaping the future of market intelligence!
About the Role
We are on the lookout for a skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our team and enhance our search platform, which processes market intelligence across billions of documents. You will face the exciting challenge of developing distributed systems capable of managing hundreds of queries per second while ensuring millisecond response times and maintaining engineering excellence for our enterprise clientele.
This position is ideal for an engineer with a passion for problem-solving and a proven history of creating robust, high-performance systems. While experience in search technologies is advantageous, we value the ability to adapt and excel in new areas – what truly matters is your capacity to design scalable systems that maintain high reliability.
What You Will Do
- Scale Distributed Systems: Design and enhance infrastructure that accommodates billions of documents and executes hundreds of queries per second.
- Lead Platform Evolution: Spearhead the transition from outdated systems to modern architecture, ensuring seamless operation and improved efficiency.
- Build Engineering Excellence: Implement robust monitoring, testing, and deployment protocols to identify and rectify issues proactively.
- Optimize Performance: Analyze and fine-tune systems for optimal performance and reliability.

