AlphaSense India - Staff Engineer, Software

• Strong in Python (our primary backend language). Comfortable working across languages — you've shipped production code in at least two. • Strong in Python • 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. • Designed and owned production systems • Led cross-team technical initiatives without formal authority — driven migrations, platform changes, or architectural shifts that required aligning multiple teams. • Led cross-team technical initiatives • Strong system design instincts — you think in terms of failure modes, data flow, scalability, and operational cost. You design for the system you'll maintain, not just the one you'll ship. • Strong system design instincts • Deep DevOps and operational experience — Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD, observability. You don't throw code over the wall. • Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team standards — through pairing, reviews, RFCs, and leading by example. • Track record of mentoring engineers • Good to Have • Experience leading large-scale migrations or platform rewrites • Hands-on experience with AI/ML in production — LLMs, BERT, NLP pipelines, or document understanding systems • Contributed to or driven engineering-wide standards, practices, or tooling • Experience with content processing, enrichment, or search systems at scale • Familiarity with Java (parts of our stack) • Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD, or Infrastructure as Code • Active practitioner of AI-assisted development (AIDLC) — uses AI tools daily in their engineering workflow • How We'll Evaluate You • Our technical interview includes a hands-on session in a real development environment — not a whiteboard. You'll work on a realistic, messy codebase with AI tools pre-configured and available. We're evaluating how you think, how you use tools, and how you approach problems — not whether you've memorized algorithms. • hands-on session in a real development environment • What we look for: • How you navigate and make sense of unfamiliar code • How you leverage AI tools — critically, not blindly • How you decompose problems and make incremental progress • How you communicate trade-offs and decisions as you work • 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. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination. • In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works. • Recruiting Scams and Fraud • We at AlphaSense have been made aware of fraudulent job postings and individuals impersonating AlphaSense recruiters. These scams may involve fake job offers, requests for sensitive personal information, or demands for payment. Please note: • AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training. • All official communications will come from an @alpha-sense.com email address. • If you’re unsure about a job posting or recruiter, verify it on our Careers page. • If you believe you’ve been targeted by a scam or have any doubts regarding the authenticity of any job listing purportedly from or on behalf of AlphaSense please contact us. Your security and trust matter to us.