At a glance
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- CAD 132,000-181,700 · Base salary
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 will build the bridge between our cutting-edge AI platform and the tool that millions of analysts, investors, and researchers use every day – Microsoft Excel.
- This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of enterprise desktop development, financial technology, and AI.
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
- Bridge Worlds: Translate between financial users' needs and technical possibilities, creating intuitive interfaces for sophisticated AI capabilities
- Establish Best Practices: Define patterns for desktop development excellence, mentoring the team on testing, deployment, and monitoring strategies for Office plugins
Requirements
- 5+ years building production software, with significant experience in desktop applications or Office add-ins
- 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
- Track record of building performant applications with excellent error handling and recovery
- Excellence in debugging complex integration issues and memory/performance optimization
- Strong testing philosophy adapted to desktop environments
- Ability to mentor teams and establish development best practices
Preferred qualifications
- 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
- Background in building offline-capable applications with sync mechanisms
- Experience with WebSocket, real-time data feeds, or streaming architectures
Benefits
- equity
- generous benefits program
Skills
- C#
- .NET
- VSTO
- COM Add-ins
- AWS
- Visual Studio
- REST APIs
- WebSocket
- SSO
- OAuth
- SAML
- XLSX
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- CSV
- JSON