Staff Software Engineer

Description

The company runs an AI platform for market intelligence and workflow automation. Thousands of large organizations use it to make faster, better-informed business and finance decisions.

The content library holds more than 500 million premium documents, including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news and proprietary internal material. Its AI tools help users pull key insights, spot market-moving trends and automate complex workflows.

The Product and Engineering group focuses on new ideas, teamwork and steady platform improvement. People there can grow while building AI and search technology.

This role owns the Excel plugin strategy. The goal is to put AI-driven market intelligence inside Microsoft Excel, the tool millions of analysts, investors and researchers use daily, and to shape how leading financial institutions make major decisions.

Responsibilities

• Within your first year, ship a plugin that thousands of analysts at major financial institutions will use, so AI-powered research can be run from an Excel formula.
• Remove the back-and-forth between Excel and research platforms, saving analysts hours each day and improving the quality of their work.
• Set the technical foundation and best practices that will guide the Office integration strategy over the long term.
• Mentor engineers on the challenges of desktop development, raising quality and performance standards where milliseconds matter.

Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience building and running large-scale production systems.
• Deep JavaScript and TypeScript skills, along with current development practices.
• Solid grasp of asynchronous code, state management and event-driven design.
• Experience shipping, updating and versioning enterprise software.
• Track record of building fast applications with strong error handling and recovery.
• Skill at finding and fixing complex integration bugs and tuning memory and performance.
• Ability to mentor teammates and set development standards.
• Day to day, the stack includes the Office JavaScript API and Office Add-ins framework, TypeScript, React and modern frontend tooling, state management between local and cloud data, enterprise sign-in via SSO, OAuth and SAML, and support for both Windows and Mac.
• Preferred: production experience with the Office JavaScript API, VSTO or COM add-ins.
• Preferred: knowledge of Excel's calculation engine, object model and common power-user patterns.
• Preferred: understanding of financial modeling, data analysis or trading systems.
• Preferred: experience with React, TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks.
• Preferred: background building offline-capable applications with sync mechanisms.
• Preferred: experience with WebSocket, real-time data feeds or streaming architectures.

Conditions

Base salary range: $164,450 - $226,550 CAD.

Pay ranges are set by function and level, benchmarked against similar growth-stage companies and internal peers, and shared on every posting regardless of hiring location. Final offers depend on factors such as experience and may fall outside this range.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and makes decisions on merit, not on any protected characteristic.

Benefits

• May be offered equity.
• Access to a generous benefits program.