AlphaSense · 17 hours ago
Staff Embedded Client Platform Engineer
AlphaSense is a leading company in AI-driven market intelligence, helping professionals make informed decisions. The role involves owning and evolving AlphaSense's embedded client platform, focusing on Excel integrations to enhance the daily workflows of financial professionals.
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Responsibilities
Own the architecture and reliability of AlphaSense’s Excel integrations (Office Add‑ins, JS/TS, legacy components)
Define clear boundaries between workbook state, plugin state, and cloud state
Ensure zero data corruption and strict Excel file integrity guarantees
Make complex operations feel instantaneous (<100ms local, <500ms remote)
Design for offline, slow networks, and enterprise restrictions (proxy, SSO, locked‑down IT)
Establish testing, observability, and deployment best practices for desktop/embedded environments
Unify fragmented Excel tools into a single, coherent client architecture
Create reusable abstractions for embedded client development
Define patterns that reduce Excel‑specific fragility over time
Mentor other engineers working in constrained client environments
Qualification
Required
7+ years building and operating production user‑facing software
Proven experience embedding software into a non‑owned host environment, such as:
Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills and event‑driven programming experience
Track record of performance profiling and optimization in constrained runtimes
Zero‑tolerance mindset for data corruption and reliability issues
Experience with enterprise deployment, updates, version skew, and rollback
Strong testing and observability instincts for client‑side systems
Ability to mentor engineers and set technical standards
Preferred
Built systems where <100ms latency materially impacted user trust
Experience debugging non‑deterministic, stateful, event‑driven systems
Background in financial systems, trading tools, or analyst workflows
Experience with offline‑first architectures and sync
History of working effectively with enterprise IT and security teams
Benefits
Equity
Generous benefits program
Company
AlphaSense
AlphaSense is a platform harnessing AI to deliver insights, helping professionals make informed, impactful decisions. It is a sub-organization of AlphaSense.
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2023 (3)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.42BKey Investors
BondCapitalGBlackRock
2024-06-11Series F· $650M
2023-09-28Series E· $150M
2023-04-11Series D· $100M
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