Staff Software Engineer

52 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Alphasense

Alphasense

Alphasense is a global leader in providing high-quality gas sensors and air quality monitors to industrial OEMs. With over 25 years of experience, the company offers a wide range of innovative gas sensor technologies for various applications, including...

Industrial Conglomerates
51-250
Founded 1996

Description

  • Own the technical strategy and development of AlphaSense’s Microsoft Excel plugin.
  • Build and operate a production-ready Office integration used by financial analysts and institutions.
  • Create AI-powered Excel experiences that reduce context switching between research and spreadsheet workflows.
  • Establish technical foundations, development standards, and best practices for Office integrations.
  • Design for high performance, reliability, error handling, and recovery across desktop environments.
  • Address complex integration issues and optimize memory and application performance.
  • Support enterprise deployment, updates, authentication, and version management.
  • Mentor engineers on desktop development and raise quality and performance standards.
  • Enable cross-platform support across Windows and Mac and manage local-to-cloud state synchronization.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience 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.
  • Demonstrated ability to build performant applications with robust error handling and recovery.
  • Expertise debugging complex integration issues and optimizing memory and performance.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and establishing development best practices.
  • Production experience with Office JavaScript API, VSTO, or COM add-ins preferred.
  • Knowledge of Excel’s calculation engine, object model, and power-user workflows preferred.
  • Experience with React, modern frontend frameworks, offline-capable applications, WebSockets, real-time data feeds, or streaming architectures preferred.
  • Understanding of financial modeling, data analysis workflows, or trading systems preferred.
  • Experience with enterprise authentication technologies such as SSO, OAuth, and SAML preferred.

Benefits

  • Base compensation of $164,450–$226,550 CAD.
  • Potential equity offering.
  • Generous benefits program.
  • Inclusive and equal-opportunity work environment.
  • Reasonable accommodations for qualified employees with disabilities.

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