Senior Engineering Manager - Product Platforms
AlphaSense
IndiaPosted 15 days ago
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Key highlights
- Role: Senior Engineering Manager
- Focus: API and AI consumption/usage platforms
- Management Scope: Global (EMEA/US teams)
- Key Requirement: Strong hands-on backend/distributed systems background
- Key Requirement: Experience managing engineering teams
Role overview
AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform powered by AI, trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers. Following the acquisition of Tegus in 2024, the company continues to expand its AI-driven capabilities to empower professionals to make smarter decisions. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead teams building shared product platforms, specifically focusing on API-first platforms that power product surfaces, integrations, and agentic workflows, as well as a business-critical usage platform that meters and reports AI credit consumption.
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and develop a team of backend and platform engineers across the API and usage/consumption areas
- Own delivery: roadmap commitments, execution quality, and predictable outcomes for platforms with many internal and external consumers
- Own the direction of usage metering and AI credit accounting, including accuracy, auditability, latency, and cost of the metering pipeline itself
- Partner with Product to shape a platform roadmap driven by real product and customer needs
- Hire strong engineers, build a healthy pipeline, and raise the bar with every offer
- Uphold API governance, versioning strategy, and backward compatibility, and hold the line on contracts that other teams depend on
- Own operational excellence: SLOs, observability, on-call health, and follow-through on incidents
- Partner with Finance, RevOps, and Pricing on consumption models, entitlements, quotas, overages, and reporting
- Create clarity in ambiguous, cross-team problems and break them into work your teams can execute
- Grow senior ICs and tech leads, and make succession and technical ownership explicit
- Own hiring, growth, delivery, and the operational health of your teams
- Partner closely with Product, Platform, SRE, and Finance/RevOps to set direction
- Stay technical enough to hold credible design discussions, review architecture, and push back where it matters
- Work alongside Principal Engineers in long-term technical direction
Requirements
- Proven experience managing backend or platform engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development
- Strong hands-on engineering background in backend or distributed systems prior to management, with the ability to engage credibly in design and code reviews today
- Experience with product platforms or shared services consumed by multiple product teams
- Track record of delivering and operating APIs at scale, with strong grounding in RESTful API design
- Experience with data-intensive systems: high-volume event ingestion, aggregation, and reporting
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to influence technical direction across teams
- Strong written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Nice to have
- Experience with consumption or usage-based business models: metering, rating, entitlements, quotas, and billing integrations
- Experience with AI cost, token, or credit accounting systems
- Experience building or enabling agentic and AI-driven workflows, including orchestration, state management, and integration patterns
- Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar agent integration patterns
- Some experience with GraphQL (design, usage, or operating in production)
- Experience working in large-scale, distributed systems environments
- Experience working closely with Platform and SRE teams
- Experience leading globally distributed teams
Additional details
- The immediate team is largely based in EMEA/US, so global people management is preferred.
- AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer.
- 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.
- AlphaSense provides reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
- Recruiting Scams and Fraud: AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training.
- All official communications will come from an @ email address.
- Originally posted on Himalayas