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Staff Software Engineer

Posted 12 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Canada
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Own the strategy and development of AlphaSense’s Excel plugin, integrating AI-driven market intelligence into Microsoft Excel. Build performant, resilient, cross-platform applications with enterprise deployment, authentication, synchronization, and state management. Establish Office integration best practices, optimize complex integrations, and mentor engineers developing desktop experiences for financial professionals.
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About AlphaSense: 

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 Team:

Our diverse Product & Engineering team values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous improvement of our platform. We offer a dynamic work environment where employees can grow and thrive while working on cutting-edge technology that shapes the future of AI and search.

At AlphaSense, we believe that diverse experiences and perspectives are critical to our success. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves.

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:
  • 10+ years building and operating large scale production systems
  • Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript 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
  • Ability to mentor teams and establish development best practices

Preferred:

  • Production experience with Office JavaScript API, VSTO, or COM add-ins
  • 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/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks
  • Background in building offline-capable applications with sync mechanisms
  • Experience with WebSocket, real-time data feeds, or streaming architectures

Technical Environment:

  • Office JavaScript API / Office Add-ins framework
  • TypeScript, React, and modern frontend tooling
  • Complex state management between local and cloud data
  • Enterprise authentication (SSO, OAuth, SAML)
  • Cross-platform support (Windows and Mac)

What You’ll Do: 

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. 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.

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
$164,450—$226,550 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.

Recruiting Scams and Fraud

We at AlphaSense have been made aware of fraudulent job postings and individuals impersonating AlphaSense recruiters. These scams may involve fake job offers, requests for sensitive personal information, or demands for payment. Please note:

  • AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training.
  • All official communications will come from an @alpha-sense.com email address.
  • If you’re unsure about a job posting or recruiter, verify it on our Careers page.

If you believe you’ve been targeted by a scam or have any doubts regarding the authenticity of any job listing purportedly from or on behalf of AlphaSense please contact us. Your security and trust matter to us.

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