AlphaSense
Senior Software Engineer
Remote - Canada · Senior
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About the role
- This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of enterprise desktop development, financial technology, and AI.
- Your work will directly impact how the world's leading financial institutions make critical decisions.
Responsibilities
- Architect the Excel Experience: Design and build a production-grade Excel plugin that seamlessly integrates AlphaSense's AI capabilities while respecting Excel's performance and stability requirements
- Master Complex Integration: Navigate Excel's object model, calculation engine, and event system to create features that feel native while accessing cloud-based intelligence
- Ensure Enterprise Excellence: Build plugins that work flawlessly across Excel 2016, 2019, and Office 365, handling corporate proxies, SSO, offline scenarios, and IT restrictions
- Optimize Ruthlessly: Make complex operations feel instantaneous, managing memory carefully and ensuring our plugin never slows down Excel
- Our internal Excel add-in is how every analyst builds, updates, and validates company models without ever leaving Excel.
- Within your first year, you'll ship improvements used daily across our entire internal research org, migrating the tool off legacy infrastructure onto AlphaSense's own platform and making powerful research workflows as simple as typing a formula.
- We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in C#,.NET and modern development practices
- Strong understanding of asynchronous programming, state management, and event-driven architectures
- Experience with enterprise software deployment, updates, and version management
- Ability to mentor teams and establish development best practices
Nice to have
- Production experience with C#, VSTO, or COM add-ins
- Knowledge of Excel's calculation engine, object model, and common power-user patterns
- Knowledge of AWS
- Understanding of financial modeling, data analysis workflows, or trading systems
- Experience with web development technologies
- Familiarity with financial data formats (XLSX, CSV, JSON) and transformations
- Experience with WebSocket, real-time data feeds, or streaming architectures
- Visual Studio & Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
Compensation
- AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training.
- $132,000 - $181,700 CAD
Equal opportunity
- 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.
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