Staff Embedded Client Platform Engineer
AlphaSense5 months ago
Base Salary
$176k - $242k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and reliability of AlphaSense’s Excel integrations, including Office Add-ins and legacy components.
- Define boundaries between workbook state, plugin state, and cloud state while ensuring Excel file integrity and zero data corruption.
- Optimize complex operations for less than 100ms local and less than 500ms remote latency.
- Design for offline use, slow networks, enterprise proxies, SSO, and locked-down IT environments.
- Establish testing, observability, and deployment best practices for desktop and embedded environments.
- Unify fragmented Excel tools into a coherent client architecture and create reusable embedded-client abstractions.
- Define patterns that reduce Excel-specific fragility and mentor engineers working in constrained client environments.
Requirements
- 7+ years building and operating production user-facing software.
- Proven experience embedding software into a non-owned host environment.
- Strong JavaScript and TypeScript skills with event-driven programming experience.
- Experience profiling and optimizing performance in constrained runtimes.
- Experience with enterprise deployment, updates, version skew, and rollback.
- Strong testing and observability instincts for client-side systems.
- Ability to mentor engineers and set technical standards.
- Experience with sub-100ms latency systems, non-deterministic stateful event-driven systems, financial systems or analyst workflows, offline-first architectures and synchronization, or enterprise IT and security teams is desirable.
Benefits
- Equity may be offered.
- Generous benefits program.
Tech Stack
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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.