Staff Software Engineer

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! About the Role We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who owns technical direction, thrives in ambiguity, and uses AI as a natural part of how they build software. You won't just write code - you'll make decisions that shape systems for years, mentor engineers across teams, and drive the engineering bar higher across the organization. This role sits within the Unstructured Content Portfolio, Broker Research domain - the systems that acquire, process, and deliver equity research from major brokers, and the authorization layer that controls who can access what. You'll work on real-time ingestion pipelines, multi-vendor API integrations, entitlement enforcement across distributed systems, and content delivery at scale - where compliance, reliability, and low-latency processing matter deeply. As a Staff Engineer, you'll operate at the intersection of technical depth and organizational influence - turning ambiguous business problems into executable technical strategies, and shipping them end-to-end. What You'll Do Set technical direction for your area - make build-vs-buy decisions, define architecture, and own the technical roadmap alongside product leadership. Take ambiguous problems and make them concrete - scope work, identify risks, break down large initiatives into deliverable increments, and drive alignment across teams. Design and deliver production-grade systems - scalable pipelines, robust services, and high-performance solutions that serve real users at scale. Leverage AI tools as part of your workflow - you use AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to accelerate your work and have formed opinions on when it helps and when it gets in the way. Evaluate and integrate AI/ML capabilities into production systems when the problem calls for it - you don't need to be an ML researcher, but you're sharp enough to pick up LLMs, embeddings, or classification models and put them to work. Drive cross-team technical initiatives - influence engineers and teams you don't manage. Lead RFCs, drive architectural reviews, and build consensus on hard technical decisions. Own what you build - from requirements to release to production. You build it, you run it. You monitor SLOs/SLIs, troubleshoot production issues, and continuously improve reliability. Raise the engineering bar - through code reviews, mentorship, technical documentation, and by modeling the standards you expect from others. Must Have Strong in Python (our primary backend language). Comfortable working across languages - you've shipped production code in at least two. Designed and owned production systems serving real users at scale - not just contributed to them, but made consequential architectural decisions and lived with the outcomes. Led cross-team technical initiatives without formal authority - driven migrations, platform changes, or architectural…