Senior Software Engineer New Remote - Canada

AlphaSense, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity offered

Generous benefits program

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking an exceptional engineer to own our Excel plugin strategy, bringing AI-driven market intelligence directly into the workflow of financial professionals worldwide. You'll build the bridge between our AI platform and the Excel tool millions use daily – crafting experiences that feel native while querying vast data with real-time insights.

This is a unique role at the intersection of enterprise desktop development, fintech, and AI.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software with desktop apps or Office add-ins.
• Deep expertise in C# and .NET with modern development practices.
• Experience with enterprise deployment, offline support, and version control.

Responsibilities

• Architect the Excel plugin experience to integrate AI capabilities.
• Master Excel object model, calculation engine, and event system.
• Ensure plugins work across Excel versions and IT constraints.
• Optimize performance and memory usage for responsive UX.
• Bridge financial users' needs with technical possibilities.
• Define desktop development best practices and testing standards.

Skills

5+ years production software

Desktop applications

C#, .NET

Asynchronous programming

Deployment & versioning

Memory optimization

Testing philosophy

Mentoring teams

Tools

VSTO

COM add-ins

AWS

REST APIs

WebSocket

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.

This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of enterprise desktop development, financial technology, and AI. You'll create experiences that feel magical to users – imagine Excel formulas that can query 1.6 billion documents, or financial models that update with real-time market intelligence. Your work will directly impact how the world's leading financial institutions make critical decisions.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years building production software, with significant experience in desktop applications or Office add-ins
• Deep expertise in C#, .NET and modern development practices
• 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
• Strong testing philosophy adapted to desktop environments
• Ability to mentor teams and establish development best practices

Preferred:

• Production experience with C#, VSTO, or COM add-ins
• Knowledge of Excel's calculation engine, object model, and common power-user patterns
• Knowledge of AWS
• Understanding of financial modeling, data analysis workflows, or trading systems
• Experience with web development technologies
• Familiarity with financial data formats (XLSX, CSV, JSON) and transformations
• Background in building offline-capable applications with sync mechanisms
• Experience with WebSocket, real-time data feeds, or streaming architectures

Technical Environment

• Visual Studio & Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
• REST APIs and WebSocket connections to AlphaSense platform
• Complex state management between local and cloud data
• Cross-platform support (Windows and Mac)
• AWS

What You'll Do

• Architect the Excel Experience: Design and build a production-grade Excel plugin that seamlessly integrates AlphaSense's AI capabilities while respecting Excel's performance and stability requirements
• Master Complex Integration: Navigate Excel's object model, calculation engine, and event system to create features that feel native while accessing cloud-based intelligence
• Ensure Enterprise Excellence: Build plugins that work flawlessly across Excel 2016, 2019, and Office 365, handling corporate proxies, SSO, offline scenarios, and IT restrictions
• Optimize Ruthlessly: Make complex operations feel instantaneous, managing memory carefully and ensuring our plugin never slows down Excel
• Bridge Worlds: Translate between financial users' needs and technical possibilities, creating intuitive interfaces for sophisticated AI capabilities
• Establish Best Practices: Define patterns for desktop development excellence, mentoring the team on testing, deployment, and monitoring strategies for Office plugins

You'll fundamentally change how AlphaSense's own equity research analysts turn raw market data into finished financial models. Our internal Excel add-in is how every analyst builds, updates, and validates company models without ever leaving Excel. Within your first year, you'll ship improvements used daily across our entire internal research org, migrating the tool off legacy infrastructure onto AlphaSense's own platform and making powerful research workflows as simple as typing a formula. You'll eliminate the context-switching between Excel and outside data sources, saving analysts hours daily while improving the quality of every model that ultimately powers the platform our clients rely on.

More importantly, you'll establish the technical foundation and best practices that will guide our Office integration strategy for years. You'll mentor a team of engineers in the unique challenges of desktop development, raising the bar for quality and performance in an environment where every millisecond matters.

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
• A team eager to learn desktop development best practices

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.

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.

You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program.

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.

U.S. Standard Demographic Questions

We invite applicants to share their demographic background. If you choose to complete this survey, your responses may be used to identify areas of improvement in our hiring process.

How would you describe your gender identity? (mark all that apply) Select...

How would you describe your racial/ethnic background? (mark all that apply) Select...

How would you describe your sexual orientation? (mark all that apply) Select...

Do you identify as transgender? Select...

Do you have a disability or chronic condition (physical, visual, auditory, cognitive, mental, emotional, or other) that substantially limits one or more of your major life activities, including mobility, communication (seeing, hearing, speaking), and learning? Select...

Are you a veteran or active member of the United States Armed Forces? Select...