Staff Engineer - API-team - Product Platforms

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! The role We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help build shared, API-first product platforms at AlphaSense that power multiple product surfaces, integrations, and agentic workflows. In this role, you'll focus on building platforms as products: well-designed APIs, clear contracts, strong reliability guarantees, and delivery driven by real product needs. These platforms are consumed by internal product teams and external integrations, including AI agents. This role sits at the intersection of hands-on engineering and technical leadership within the team. You'll stay close to the code while helping shape how product platforms are designed, evolved, and adopted. You'll collaborate across teams and own end-to-end systems within your domain. This is not a people-management role, nor a purely advisory architecture role. We're looking for a Staff engineer who enjoys building, prototyping, iterating, and solving complex problems in production. What you'll do: • Serve as a technical owner for API-first systems within your team and domain • Design, build, and evolve high-scale APIs used by internal teams, external customers, and intelligent agents • Apply API governance, versioning strategies, and backward compatibility in your systems • Contribute to API standards, design principles, and best practices through hands-on work and technical reviews • Tackle complex problems where requirements are ambiguous and constraints are real • Partner with Product, Platform, and SRE teams to ensure APIs are reliable, observable, secure, and scalable • Identify and reduce technical risks within your domain • Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through example Who you are: • Significant experience as a senior or staff-level software engineer working on applications and backend systems • Experience building product platforms or shared services consumed by multiple teams • Track record of designing, building, and operating APIs at scale • Strong hands-on experience with RESTful APIs • Some experience with GraphQL (design, usage, or operating in production) • Solid understanding of system design, performance, reliability, and evolution over time • Strong bias toward hands-on contribution and ownership of real systems • Ability to influence technical direction within and across teams through credibility and execution Nice to have: • Experience building or enabling agentic or AI-driven workflows • Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar agent integration patterns • Experience working in large-scale, distributed systems environments • Experience working closely with platform and SRE teams What we Offer: • Playing a part in the story of a fast growing compnay • Interesting career opportunities and training • Relocation support for single employees, couples and families • While we do have an office in Helsinki, we’re a distributed company. We value outcomes over time, and offer flexible working arrangements. We usually meet at the office once a week. • Private healthcare services from Terveystalo • 2 weeks of vacation granted up front, and possibility to use vacation days as they accrue • Access to gym room, gaming room, free parking near the office, mobile phone, Lunch benefit, mobile plan, home internet, remote work equipment, and many more.... 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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