06 Nov
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AlphaSense
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Winnipeg
06 Nov
AlphaSense
Winnipeg
About AlphaSenseAlphaSense 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. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. 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. About AlphaSenseAlphaSense 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. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. 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.
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'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. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of enterprise desktop development, financial technology, and AI. You'll create experiences that feel magical to users – imagine Excel formulas that can query 1.6 billion documents, or financial models that update with real‑time market intelligence. 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 Production experience with C#, VSTO, or COM add‑ins 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 Technical Setting Visual Studio & Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) Complex state management between local and cloud data Cross‑platform support (Windows and Mac) AWS 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 Navigate Excel's object model, calculation engine, and event system to create features that feel native while accessing cloud‑based intelligence Build plugins that work flawlessly across Excel 2016, 2019, and Office 365, handling corporate proxies, SSO, offline scenarios, and IT restrictions Translate between financial users' needs and technical possibilities, creating intuitive interfaces for sophisticated AI capabilities Define patterns for desktop development excellence, mentoring the team on testing, deployment, and monitoring strategies for Office plugins You'll fundamentally change how AlphaSense's own equity research analysts turn raw market data into finished financial models. 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. You'll eliminate the context‑switching between Excel and outside data sources, saving analysts hours daily while improving the quality of every model that ultimately powers the platform our clients rely on. More impo
📌 Senior Software Engineering (Winnipeg)
🏢 AlphaSense
📍 Winnipeg