Staff Embedded Client Platform Engineer
AlphaSense13 days ago
Base Salary
$176k - $242k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and reliability of AlphaSense’s Excel integrations.
- Define clear boundaries between workbook state, plugin state, and cloud state.
- Ensure zero data corruption and strict Excel file integrity guarantees.
- Make complex operations feel instantaneous.
- Design for offline, slow networks, and enterprise restrictions.
- Establish testing, observability, and deployment best practices for desktop/embedded environments.
- Unify fragmented Excel tools into a single, coherent client architecture.
- Create reusable abstractions for embedded client development.
- Define patterns that reduce Excel-specific fragility over time.
- Mentor other 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/TypeScript skills and event-driven programming experience.
- Track record of performance profiling and optimization in constrained runtimes.
- Zero-tolerance mindset for data corruption and reliability issues.
- 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.
Tech Stack
JavaScriptTypeScript