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Senior Software Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in Canada
Senior level
Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in Canada
Senior level
Build and operate a production-grade Microsoft Excel plugin integrating AlphaSense’s AI-driven market intelligence platform. Develop native-feeling Excel experiences, manage complex asynchronous and event-driven integrations, optimize performance and memory usage, and ensure stability across Windows and Mac. Establish engineering best practices for testing, deployment, monitoring, and enterprise updates while mentoring junior engineers. The role directly supports financial analysts and researchers at leading institutions.
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About AlphaSense: 

AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com. Come join us.

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:

  • 5+ 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 and modern frontend frameworks

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
  • Build the Excel Experience: Develop and ship production-grade features for the Excel plugin that integrate AlphaSense's capabilities while respecting Excel's performance and stability requirements
  • Navigate Complex Integration: Work with Excel's object model, calculation engine, and event system to deliver features that feel native while accessing cloud-based intelligence
  • Optimize Relentlessly: Make complex operations feel instantaneous, manage memory carefully, and ensure the plugin never slows down Excel
  • Uphold Best Practices: Follow and contribute to team standards for development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of Office plugins, and support junior engineers through code reviews and pairing

Impact You'll Have

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.

Why This Role is Unique

This isn't just another plugin development role. You'll be working with:

  • Cutting-edge AI capabilities that need to feel simple in Excel
  • Financial professionals who depend on Excel for critical decisions
  • Complex technical constraints that require creative solutions

You'll need to think like a financial analyst, architect like a distributed systems engineer, and optimize like a game developer. It's a rare opportunity to work on deeply technical challenges while directly impacting how the financial world operates.


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
$132,000—$181,700 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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