Senior Software Engineer

AlphaSense, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 132,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking an exceptional software engineer to own our Excel plugin strategy, delivering AI-powered market intelligence directly into the workflow of financial professionals. You will bridge our AI platform with Excel, shipping production-grade features that feel native and perform reliably across Windows and Mac.

Join a team building scalable, memory-efficient integrations and mentoring engineers while partnering with research and product to empower thousands of analysts daily.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating large scale production systems.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming, state management, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with enterprise software deployment, updates, and version management.
• Track record of building performant applications with excellent error handling and recovery.
• Excellence in debugging complex integration issues and memory/performance optimization.
• Ability to mentor teams and establish development best practices.

Responsibilities

• Build the Excel Experience: Develop and ship production-grade features for the Excel plugin that integrate AlphaSense's capabilities while respecting Excel's performance and stability requirements.
• Navigate Complex Integration: Work with Excel's object model, calculation engine, and event system to deliver features that feel native while accessing cloud-based intelligence.
• Optimize Relentlessly: Make complex operations feel instantaneous, manage memory carefully, and ensure the plugin never slows down Excel.
• Uphold Best Practices: Follow and contribute to team standards for development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of Office plugins, and support junior engineers through code reviews and pairing.

Skills

Large-scale production systems

Asynchronous programming

State management

Event-driven architectures

Memory/performance optimization

Mentoring teams

Tools

TypeScript

React

Job description

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

About the Role

AlphaSense is seeking an exceptional engineer to own our Excel plugin strategy, bringing the power of AI-driven market intelligence directly into the workflow of financial professionals worldwide. You'll build the bridge between our cutting-edge AI platform and the tool that millions of analysts, investors, and researchers use every day – Microsoft Excel. You'll create experiences that feel magical to users. Your work will directly impact how the world's leading financial institutions make critical decisions.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years building and operating large scale production systems
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming, state management, and event-driven architectures
• Experience with enterprise software deployment, updates, and version management
• Track record of building performant applications with excellent error handling and recovery
• Excellence in debugging complex integration issues and memory/performance optimization
• Ability to mentor teams and establish development best practices

Preferred:

• Knowledge of Excel's calculation engine, object model, and common power-user patterns
• Understanding of financial modeling, data analysis workflows, or trading systems
• Experience with React and modern frontend frameworks

Technical Environment

• TypeScript, React, and modern frontend tooling
• Complex state management between local and cloud data
• Cross-platform support (Windows and Mac)

What You'll Do

• Build the Excel Experience: Develop and ship production-grade features for the Excel plugin that integrate AlphaSense's capabilities while respecting Excel's performance and stability requirements
• Navigate Complex Integration: Work with Excel's object model, calculation engine, and event system to deliver features that feel native while accessing cloud-based intelligence
• Optimize Relentlessly: Make complex operations feel instantaneous, manage memory carefully, and ensure the plugin never slows down Excel
• Uphold Best Practices: Follow and contribute to team standards for development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of Office plugins, and support junior engineers through code reviews and pairing

Impact You'll Have

You'll fundamentally change how financial professionals interact with market intelligence. Within your first year, you'll ship a plugin used by thousands of analysts at leading financial institutions, making AI-powered research as simple as typing an Excel formula. You'll eliminate the context-switching between Excel and research platforms, saving analysts hours daily while improving the quality of their analysis.

More importantly, you'll establish the technical foundation and best practices that will guide our Office integration strategy for years.

Why This Role is Unique

This isn't just another plugin development role. You'll be working with:

• Cutting-edge AI capabilities that need to feel simple in Excel
• Financial professionals who depend on Excel for critical decisions
• Complex technical constraints that require creative solutions

You’ll need to think like a financial analyst, architect like a distributed systems engineer, and optimize like a game developer. It's a rare opportunity to work on deeply technical challenges while directly impacting how the financial world operates.

Compensation Range

$132,000 - $181,700 CAD

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. 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. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

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