Principal Software Engineer - Product Platforms
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AlphaSenseMarket Intelligence
Remote - United KingdomFull-TimePrincipal
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Backend DevelopmentGraphQLRESTful APIsDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Extensive experience as a senior staff/principal-level software engineer working on applications and backend systems
- Experience building product platforms or shared services consumed by multiple product teams
- Proven 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)
- Deep 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 across teams through credibility and execution
Responsibilities
- Act as a technical owner and force multiplier for API-first architecture across the company
- Design, build, and evolve high-scale APIs used by internal teams, external customers, and intelligent agents
- Lead the development of agentic workflows, including orchestration, state management, tooling, and integration patterns
- Drive API standards, design principles, and best practices through hands-on work and technical reviews
- Tackle complex cross-team 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 systemic technical risks while enabling teams to move faster
- Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar through example, not hierarchy
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