Software Developer - ShareGate Backup

Staff Software Developer - Share Gate Backup Company Description

Workleap is a Montreal‑based tech company on a mission to make work simpler.

Since 2006, we’ve been building game‑changing products that tackle HR and IT’s biggest challenges.

• The Workleap Platform, an AI‑powered HR solution designed to drive team performance and boost employee engagement.
• Share Gate, the leading Microsoft 365 migration and governance solution, trusted by IT professionals worldwide for its unmatched simplicity.

Today, more than 20,000 companies rely on Workleap products to grow, lead, and operate with confidence.

We’re builders at heart, with a clear purpose: to craft the simplest products that deliver exceptional value for our customers. Period.

So, what will your new role look like? We’re hiring a Staff Developer to lead the technical delivery of Share Gate’s most ambitious new feature, Backup, one of our customers’ top requests. This marks a first for Share Gate in the migration space.

In this hands‑on technical leadership role, you’ll own the architecture, define the long‑term technical vision, and help build the team that will bring this highly requested capability to life.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical design, architecture, and delivery of the Backup feature, ensuring scalability, security, and long‑term maintainability.
• Design and develop a new backup system that is reliable, automated, and easy to use, capable of meeting operational needs and recovery requirements.
• Define and champion a spec‑driven development workflow, where features are designed upfront through detailed technical specifications before any code is written, enabling agentic AI‑assisted development, faster reviews, and higher quality delivery.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and directly with customers to validate our solutions, and align our technical direction to our product goals.
• Mentor developers, grow the team, and influence technical decisions across Share Gate’s engineering organization.
• Act as a visible technical leader, advocating for scalable design decisions, driving technical discussions, and influencing Share Gate’s broader engineering practices.

A typical week:
You will spend your week advancing high‑impact technical work: writing detailed specifications that serve as a contract between intent and implementation, leveraging agentic AI development tools to accelerate delivery, reviewing code and designs, facilitating design discussions, writing code, and solving complex Backup challenges, all in close collaboration with Product and Design. With a light meeting load and mostly async collaboration, you will have the space to prioritize deep work and problem solving.

In parallel, you’ll be shaping the long‑term team in partnership with your Software Development Manager by participating in hiring, onboarding, and mentoring as the team grows.

What does your future team look like? You’ll be the first developer on this new team, taking full technical leadership from the start.

In the early stages, you’ll be supported by a Principal Developer as well as a small development team to define the technical foundation, architectural direction, and key delivery frameworks. With a dedicated Product Manager, Product Designer, and Manager already in place, you’ll have a unique opportunity to help select and shape the engineering team around you.

What are the next challenges awaiting your team? Your team’s first challenge is to deliver a secure, production‑ready MVP to select customers. You’ll then iterate rapidly toward general availability while scaling the team to support the long‑term growth of a feature area that’ll play a progressively larger role in Share Gate’s broader strategy.

All of this on which technical stack? You’ll be working within a mature .NET (C#) codebase supported by established tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and strong engineering standards.

• 10+ years of software development experience, with a significant portion in technical leadership roles.
• Advanced proficiency in C# and the .NET ecosystem, with familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, React, and ideally hybrid or desktop application environments.
• Hands‑on…