Staff Software Engineer
AlphaSense4 days ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the strategy and technical foundation for AlphaSense’s Excel plugin and Office integrations.
- Build, deploy, update, and operate a performant cross-platform Excel plugin for enterprise customers.
- Connect AlphaSense’s AI-driven market intelligence platform with Excel workflows used by financial professionals.
- Debug complex integration issues and optimize application memory, performance, error handling, and recovery.
- Establish engineering best practices and mentor a team working on desktop development.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale production systems.
- Deep expertise in JavaScript and 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.
- Demonstrated ability to build performant applications with strong error handling and recovery.
- Excellence in debugging complex integration issues and optimizing memory and performance.
- Ability to mentor teams and establish development best practices.
- Preferred experience with Office JavaScript API, VSTO, COM add-ins, Excel’s calculation engine, financial modeling, data analysis workflows, trading systems, React, offline-capable applications, synchronization mechanisms, WebSocket, real-time data feeds, or streaming architectures.
Benefits
- Equity may be offered along with a generous benefits program.
- The role supports cross-platform development for Windows and Mac.
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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.