Senior Software Engineer

Remote · CAD 132,000-181,700 · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 2, 2026

At a glance

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.

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

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

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