Staff Engineer, Software
RemoteFull-timeSenior levelPosted over a month ago
Senior software engineering role at AlphaSense India. Remote.
About the role
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who owns technical direction, thrives in ambiguity, and uses AI as a natural part of how they build software. You won't just write code — you'll make decisions that shape systems for years, mentor engineers across teams, and drive the engineering bar higher across the organization.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction for your area — make build-vs-buy decisions, define architecture, and own the technical roadmap alongside product leadership
- Take ambiguous problems and make them concrete — scope work, identify risks, break down large initiatives into deliverable increments, and drive alignment across teams
- Design and deliver production-grade systems — scalable pipelines, robust services, and high-performance solutions that serve real users at scale
- Leverage AI tools as part of your workflow — you use AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Cursor
- Evaluate and integrate AI/ML capabilities into production systems when the problem calls for it — you don't need to be an ML researcher
What you need
- System design
- Python
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- GCP
- CI/CD
Good to have
- Java
- NLP
- Terraform
- Azure
- Machine learning
- LLMs