[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @AlphaSense

Role Description

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Fin Data team. This is an opportunity to work on different challenges at all levels of our stack, designing, implementing, testing, maintaining, and improving features and services. You’ll have the autonomy to own and operate applications and services that you build while focusing on collaborative delivery over independent efforts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience building highly reliable, mission-critical software.
• A strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, such as algorithmic complexity, asynchronicity, and distributed computing.
• Good knowledge on design and architecture concepts.
• Familiarity with Agile software development processes and software testing.
• Experience in shipping pragmatic and high-quality solutions with a sense of urgency.
• Ability and desire to work in an open and team-oriented environment.
• Excitement to learn from and work with experts in other disciplines.
• Have a strong sense of ownership, a sense of humor, and strong collaboration skills.
• Strongly preferred: Proficiency in Python and solid experience with relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL).

Requirements

• Preferred: Experience with AWS, GraphQL, TypeScript, web/frontend development, and data engineering.
• Nice to have: Familiarity with MCP servers or agentic system design.
• A background or interest in financial modeling, financial technology, or capital markets is a plus but not mandatory.

What You’ll Do

• Designing, building, delivering, and operating high-quality (reliable and intuitive to use) software systems, collaboratively with your cross-functional team.
• Belief in uneventful and predictable code releases, and an expectation that they happen many times each day, supported by robust Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines and extensive test coverage.
• Keep quality standards high. Ensure steady progress on the roadmap to reach acceptance by Product Management and Design.
• Participate in design and definition discussions, and in documentation. Through regular collaboration with your Product Management and Design counterparts about requirements, projects, scoping, and estimation.
• Guiding and coaching less experienced developers in their approach to debugging, design, and application of various software development paradigms.
• Building relationships and communicating effectively with other parts of the company (the rest of Engineering, Product Management, Equity Research, Marketing, and Sales).

Compensation Range

$117,600 — $176,400 CAD

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

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