Senior Software Engineer
AlphaSense10 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect and build a production-grade Excel plugin integrating AlphaSense’s AI capabilities.
- Work with Excel’s object model, calculation engine, and event system to create native-feeling features.
- Support Excel 2016, Excel 2019, and Office 365 across Windows and Mac, including corporate proxies, SSO, offline scenarios, and IT restrictions.
- Optimize memory usage, performance, error handling, and recovery so the plugin does not slow down Excel.
- Define desktop development, testing, deployment, and monitoring best practices for Office plugins.
- Mentor engineers and establish development standards for desktop software.
- Migrate the internal Excel add-in from legacy infrastructure to AlphaSense’s platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building production software, including significant desktop application or Office add-in experience.
- Deep expertise in C# and .NET.
- Strong understanding of asynchronous programming, state management, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with enterprise software deployment, updates, and version management.
- Demonstrated ability to build performant applications with strong error handling and recovery.
- Experience debugging complex integration issues and optimizing memory and performance.
- A strong testing philosophy adapted to desktop environments.
- Ability to mentor teams and establish development best practices.
- Preferred experience with C#, VSTO, or COM add-ins and knowledge of Excel’s calculation engine, object model, and power-user patterns.
- Preferred knowledge of AWS, financial modeling, data analysis workflows, trading systems, web development technologies, XLSX, CSV, JSON, offline-capable applications, synchronization mechanisms, WebSocket connections, real-time data feeds, or streaming architectures.
Benefits
- Base compensation is listed at $132,000–$181,700 CAD annually.
- Equity may be offered along with a generous benefits program.
About AlphaSense
AlphaSense builds an AI-powered market intelligence and search platform used by investment, corporate strategy, and research teams to find insights across public and private content (equity research, filings, transcripts, expert calls, news, and internal documents). It sells enterprise subscriptions to its SaaS platform and content sets. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held and acquired Tegus in 2024; its customers include a majority of the S&P 500.