Are you an ambitious engineer ready to take on new challenges and grow exceptionally in your career? Join our team Editors as a Senior Software Engineer and be at the forefront of transforming our Creative production tooling!

About the Team:

Smartly proudly houses Editor, the creative heart of our platform. We build the engine that brings advertising to life, providing the essential tools for scaling creative post-production through image, video, and HTML templates. Our customers rely on our creative production tooling to design, animate, and scale millions of assets, and your future team will be placed in the center of all of this effort.

We are a Helsinki based group of experts passionate about solving high-level frontend challenges. Our squad enables the world's largest brands to turn a single design into a global campaign by mastering complex state management and high-performance canvas-based interactions. We are tech-agnostic at heart but rely heavily on React and TypeScript to build a seamless and powerful design experience. We are constantly looking for ways to improve and are dedicated to taking our product and our craft to the next level.

Check out our Engineering at Smartly site to learn how our engineering and product development work.

As a Senior Software Engineer, You Will:

• Own vertical slices of the Editor platform, taking end-to-end responsibility for complex projects from design to deployment.
• Find the smallest possible increments to deliver value to our customers as quickly as possible.
• Partner closely with Product and UX to dissect complex requirements into well-designed and well-executed software.
• Lead technical design decisions and tradeoffs, balancing long-term architecture with immediate product needs.
• Be a core contributor to our Creative Engineering Group, ensuring our frontend and core packages remain performant and scalable.
• Act as a mentor and technical guide, elevating the team through constructive code reviews and sharing your expertise.
• Drive projects forward independently and proactively dispatching roadblocks.

What We’re Looking For:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in building robust, complex web applications with a mastery of frontend development.
• Expertise in React and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of state management and performance optimization.
• Proven ability to drive projects independently, showing persistence and autonomy in the face of technical hurdles.
• Ambition and eagerness to excel and commitment to continuous growth
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
• Strong analytical skills to translate a broad product vision into actionable technical tasks.
• Motivation for solving customers' problems and delivering value to customers at a fast pace
• Ability to work in a hybrid capacity from our Helsinki office 3 days a week.

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 850 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Lead: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Technical Interviews: Engage in an interactive coding interview followed by a discussion around Systems Design and Architecture.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our VP of Engineering.

Apply Now and Shape Your Future with Smartly!

#LI-JF2 #LI-Hybrid

The Team:

AlphaSense’s Design team is a strategic driver of product differentiation, shaping how the world’s leading companies make high-stakes decisions with confidence. We believe great UX is not just about usability, it’s about deeply understanding our customers’ workflows and building experiences that feel tailored, intelligent, and indispensable to how they work.
As AlphaSense evolves into an AI-native platform, Design plays a critical role in defining how AI shows up in real workflows, from search to synthesis to decision-making. We partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn complex data and advanced AI capabilities into cohesive, intuitive, and high-quality experiences.
Our team is a global group of craftspeople, systems thinkers, and innovators who care deeply about quality, velocity, and impact. We operate with a strong sense of ownership, a bias toward action, and a commitment to raising the bar for what great product design looks like in an AI-first world.

About the Role:
We are seeking a Principal Design Engineer to play a key role in shaping the future of AlphaSense’s product experience. This is a senior individual contributor role, where you’ll lead through craft, systems thinking, and technical excellence, building AI-powered experiences that feel tailored, intelligent, and essential to our customers’ workflows.
You will operate at the intersection of design, engineering, and product strategy, translating complex, data-rich problems into high-quality, production-ready experiences. You won’t just prototype ideas; you’ll define how they are built, scaled, and experienced in the product.
As a senior member of the Design team, you’ll act as a multiplier—mentoring others, guiding technical and design decisions, and strengthening the connection between user needs, business goals, and engineering realities.

Why this role matters
At AlphaSense, design is a core driver of how we win. As we build an AI-native platform, the quality of our user experience will define how effectively customers can navigate complexity, build conviction, and make decisions.
In this role, you will help define that standard—through the systems you build, the experiences you ship, and the team you help elevate.

What You’ll Do

• Create high-fidelity, coded prototypes and interaction models that bring complex, AI-powered workflows to life and clearly communicate product direction.
• Own high-impact initiatives from concept through production, shipping experiences that reflect strong design thinking, technical rigor, and a deep understanding of customer workflows.
• Lead technical design discussions, make architectural decisions, and guide cross-team implementation efforts.
• Advance AlphaSense’s design system as a core piece of product infrastructure—defining scalable patterns, enabling consistency, and accelerating teams building across AI-native experiences.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to research and evaluate user requirements, translate them into effective designs, and ensure that the final product meets both user and business needs.
• Collaborate with engineering teams during development, advocating for design quality and user experience by championing design fidelity and attention to detail throughout the development lifecycle.

• Act as a senior leader within the Design team, mentoring designers and engineers, raising the bar for craft, and contributing to a strong, collaborative design culture.
• Serve as connective tissue across design, product, and engineering—helping teams navigate tradeoffs between technical constraints, business goals, and user experience to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Who You Are

• 12+ years of experience in product design, design/UX/front-end engineering, design systems, or a related discipline.
• A bachelor’s degree or higher. A degree in design, computer science, information sciences, psychology, or human-computer interaction is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with modern front-end technologies (e.g., HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React) and evolving design systems.
• Experience building AI and agentic experiences, and you are already leveraging AI to speed up and augment your end-to-end design and development process.
• Expertise with modern AI technologies and ability to apply them to design problems (e.g., MCP, Claude Code, Codex, Skills).
• Experience shipping production-ready experiences and influencing technical and design choices across teams.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, end-to-end customer workflows, and the ability to turn new users into habitual users.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in project leadership, mentorship, and providing constructive feedback to foster professional growth.

What we offer

• Playing a part in the story of a fast growing company
• Interesting career opportunities and training
• Relocation support for single employees, couple and families
• While we do have an office in Helsinki, we’re a distributed company. We value outcomes over time, and offer flexible working arrangements. We usually meet at the office once a week.
• Private healthcare services from Terveystalo
• 2 weeks of vacation granted up front, and possibility to use vacation days as they accrue
• Access to gym room, gaming room, free parking near the office, mobile phone, Lunch benefit, mobile plan, home internet, remote work equipment, and many more....

About the Team

AlphaSense’s Design team is a strategic driver of product differentiation, shaping how the world’s leading companies make high-stakes decisions with confidence. We believe great UX is not just about usability, it’s about deeply understanding our customers’ workflows and building experiences that feel tailored, intelligent, and indispensable to how they work.

As AlphaSense evolves into an AI-native platform, Design plays a critical role in defining how AI shows up in real workflows, from search to synthesis to decision-making. We partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn complex data and advanced AI capabilities into cohesive, intuitive, and high-quality experiences.

Our team is a global group of craftspeople, systems thinkers, and innovators who care deeply about quality, velocity, and impact. We operate with a strong sense of ownership, a bias toward action, and a commitment to raising the bar for what great product design looks like in an AI-first world.

About the Role

We are seeking Senior and Staff Design Engineers to play a key role in shaping the future of AlphaSense’s product experience. This is a senior individual contributor role, where you’ll lead through craft, systems thinking, and technical excellence, building AI-powered experiences that feel tailored, intelligent, and essential to our customers’ workflows.

You will operate at the intersection of design, engineering, and product strategy, translating complex, data-rich problems into high-quality, production-ready experiences. You won’t just prototype ideas; you’ll define how they are built, scaled, and experienced in the product.

As a senior member of the Design team, you’ll act as a multiplier—mentoring others, guiding technical and design decisions, and strengthening the connection between user needs, business goals, and engineering realities.

Why this role matters

At AlphaSense, design is a core driver of how we win. As we build an AI-native platform, the quality of our user experience will define how effectively customers can navigate complexity, build conviction, and make decisions. In this role, you will help define that standard—through the systems you build, the experiences you ship, and the team you help elevate.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience in product design, design/UX/front-end engineering, design systems, or a related discipline.
• A bachelor’s degree or higher. A degree in design, computer science, information sciences, psychology, or human-computer interaction is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with modern front-end technologies (e.g., HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React) and evolving design systems.
• Experience building AI and agentic experiences, and you are already leveraging AI to speed up and augment your end-to-end design and development process.
• Expertise with modern AI technologies and ability to apply them to design problems (e.g., MCP, Claude Code, Codex, Skills).
• Experience shipping production-ready experiences and influencing technical and design choices across teams.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, end-to-end customer workflows, and the ability to turn new users into habitual users.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What You’ll Do

• Create high-fidelity, coded prototypes and interaction models that bring complex, AI-powered workflows to life and clearly communicate product direction.
• Own high-impact initiatives from concept through production, shipping experiences that reflect strong design thinking, technical rigor, and a deep understanding of customer workflows.
• Lead technical design discussions, make architectural decisions, and guide cross-team implementation efforts.
• Advance AlphaSense’s design system as a core piece of product infrastructure—defining scalable patterns, enabling consistency, and accelerating teams building across AI-native experiences.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to research and evaluate user requirements, translate them into effective designs, and ensure that the final product meets both user and business needs.
• Collaborate with engineering teams during development, advocating for design quality and user experience by championing design fidelity and attention to detail throughout the development lifecycle.
• Drive cross-functional alignment by helping teams navigate tradeoffs between technical constraints, business goals, and user experience to deliver high-quality outcomes.
  
  
• AI-First Execution
  • Apply an AI-first mindset to how you design and build—leveraging modern AI tooling, agent-driven workflows, and code-based prototyping to accelerate iteration and unlock new product possibilities.
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to shape how intelligent capabilities are integrated into real user workflows, ensuring outputs are transparent, trustworthy, and usable.

What we offer

• Playing a part in the story of a fast growing company
• Interesting career opportunities and training
• Relocation support for single employees, couples and families
• While we do have an office in Helsinki, we’re a distributed company. We value outcomes over time, and offer flexible working arrangements. We usually meet at the office once a week.
• Private healthcare services from Terveystalo
• 2 weeks of vacation granted up front, and possibility to use vacation days as they accrue
• Access to gym room, gaming room, free parking near the office, mobile phone, Lunch benefit, mobile plan, home internet, remote work equipment, and many more....