The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on Alpha Sense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, Alpha Sense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.
The acquisition of Tegus by Alpha Sense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, Alpha Sense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.
Founded in 2011, Alpha Sense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!
Alpha Sense 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.
- 5+ years building and operating large scale production systems
- 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
- 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
- Type Script, React, and modern frontend tooling
- Complex state management between local and cloud data
- Cross-platform support (Windows and Mac)
- Build the Excel
Experience:
Develop and ship production-grade features for the Excel plugin that integrate Alpha Sense'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
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…
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