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Staff Software Engineer in Canada

  • AlphaSense
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture and evolution of a major area of the entity data platform.
  • Design systems that ingest and serve large volumes of heterogeneous vendor data with high reliability, freshness, and accuracy.
  • Reduce manual validation through AI-assisted resolution, confidence scoring, provenance, and deterministic matching rules.
  • Establish contracts for correctness and traceability, including source attribution and entity-matching rationale.
  • Balance AI-driven and rules-based approaches to improve reliability and explainability.
  • Deliver integrations across ingestion, matching, entity generation, and downstream delivery.
  • Respond to production incidents and improve observability and reliability through iterative hardening.
  • Set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner with product and downstream consumers on quality bars and success metrics.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale production systems.
  • Proven experience with data ingestion, entity resolution, matching, or normalization at scale.
  • Deep expertise in one or more of distributed systems, data pipelines, reference data platforms, platform engineering, or AI-powered classification and validation.
  • Strong coding, system design, and architecture pattern skills.
  • Ability to design trustworthy systems combining probabilistic AI and deterministic approaches.
  • Experience with incident response, observability, and sustained reliability improvements.
  • Effective use of AI, testing, automation, and tooling to ship confidently.
  • Track record of setting standards, driving technical decisions, documenting systems, and mentoring engineers.
  • Experience evolving or re-platforming live systems with many downstream consumers.
  • Preferred experience with company or financial reference data, vendor reconciliation, provenance, lineage, confidence scoring, quarantine or resolution workflows, end-to-end data vendor integration, cloud-native architectures, or internal platforms shared across teams.

Benefits

  • Equity may be offered.
  • Generous benefits program.
  • Base compensation is listed in Canadian dollars and may vary based on location, experience, and expertise.

AlphaSense

AlphaSense is the technology behind the business world’s most important decisions – from Wall Street to boardrooms across every major industry. Trusted by over 6,500 leading companies – including 88% of the S&P 100, 80% of top global banks, and all 20 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms –...

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