Senior Software Engineer; FinData

Position: Senior Software Engineer (FinData)
The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on Alpha Sense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, Alpha Sense 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 Alpha Sense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, Alpha Sense 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, Alpha Sense 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 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.
Who You Are:
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 of 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).
Preferred:

Experience with AWS, Graph

QL, Type Script, 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).
For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.
You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits…