Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack at AlphaSense in Remote - India

Job description

• We are looking for a hands-on Full Stack (Frontend Heavy) Staff Software Engineer to join our team and lead efforts in building scalable, performant, and reliable software systems that power the AlphaSense platform. You will play a key role in shaping technical architecture, mentoring engineers, and driving engineering excellence across teams. This is a high-impact role for an experienced engineer who thrives on solving complex problems and delivering robust, customer-focused solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality, performant, and scalable software systems across backend and frontend.
• Own the technical architecture and reliability of backend services alongside frontend microapps.
• Lead technical design discussions, clarify requirements, and deliver effective and maintainable solutions.
• Take ownership of full-stack development projects, from backend APIs (Python/Java) to front-end integration.
• Serve as architectural glue across multiple domains.
• Apply best practices in DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering to improve delivery efficiency.
• Mentor and coach engineers, raising the technical bar across the team.
• Collaborate with globally distributed teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Drive innovation by evaluating and adopting emerging technologies where relevant.
• Build and integrate intelligent features into the platform, leveraging LLMs, agents, and AI frameworks where they add user value.
• Partner with other teams to integrate and optimize intelligent features and workflows within the platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of software development experience building scalable, high-performing, and robust applications.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript with solid experience in full-stack development.
• Expertise in modern web frameworks such as React, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
• Identify and codify React performance best practices, architectural trade-offs, and code-level improvements in the existing codebase.
• Experience with at least one backend language/framework (e.g., Node.js, Java, Python)
• Strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, multithreading, distributed systems).
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Solr/Vespa/Lucene).
• Cloud-native development experience with AWS or GCP.
• Skilled with containerization and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm).
• Familiarity with observability tools and platforms (monitoring, logging, tracing).
• Experience with service reliability, on-call ownership, and incident triage for production systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technically within distributed, cross-functional teams.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot) as a core part of daily engineering workflow.
• Track record of driving AI adoption within engineering teams - establishing best practices, defining guardrails, evaluating tools, and measurably improving team velocity through AI-assisted workflows (a strong plus).

Skills

Required

• JavaScript
• React
• TypeScript
• GraphQL
• Node.js
• Java
• Python
• SQL
• NoSQL
• DynamoDB
• MySQL
• Redis

Preferred

• AI adoption within engineering teams