Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Full Stack Developer

Athennian increases trust in business. Our products help legal, finance, and tax teams be transaction and audit-ready by organizing business entity and corporate structure information. Over a million business entities in almost every country are managed on Athennian to automate workflows for ownership, company secretarial, governance, tax, and compliance.

We're looking for a driven Software Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team to contribute to our mission of managing hundreds of thousands of business entities worldwide, empowering our users with a platform that inspires trust. In this role, you will contribute to designing, building, and maintaining scalable software solutions that enhance our platform's functionality and performance. Reporting to the Director of Development, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality code, optimize application performance, and support the growth of our technology stack.

• Architect & Deliver: Develop, test, and deploy high-quality, scalable software solutions that align with complex business needs.
• Strategic System Design: Participate in technical discussions and contribute to high-level decisions on system architecture, focusing on configurability and long-term maintainability.
• AI-Augmented Development: Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery cycles while maintaining code integrity.
• Collaborative Innovation: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate user needs into innovative features and improvements.
• Quality & Security Governance: Optimize application performance, ensure security and reliability, and conduct thorough code reviews to maintain high code quality.
• Process Evolution: Identify and resolve technical challenges, propose solutions, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes.
• Future-Proofing: Stay up to date with industry trends, specifically LLM integrations and automated testing advancements to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies that can enhance our platform’s capabilities.
• Technical Mentorship: Guide the team in best practices for modern engineering, from sophisticated Type Script typing to efficient AI-prompting for complex refactors.

• 4+ years of experience in software development: with a proven track record of architecting scalable, enterprise-grade applications.
• Modern AI fluency: Demonstrated ability to use AI-augmented development tools (e.g., Cursor, Git Hub Copilot) to accelerate delivery without sacrificing code quality or architecture.
• Advanced Database Knowledge: Strong experience with relational and No
  
  SQL databases; familiarity with search indexing and vector search (e.g., Mongo
  
  DB Atlas Vector Search) is highly valued.
• Deep experience with testing frameworks: (Jest, Cypress, Playwright) to build resilient CI/CD pipelines.
• A security-first mindset: regarding data protection, access controls, and the safe handling of sensitive corporate legal data.
• Experience with cloud platforms: (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Previous experience in a startup/scale up environment.

We have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the world. While some roles may require proximity to our Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver offices, roles based outside our office locations can be remote in Canada and the US. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in the US and Canada.

We’re a remote-first company built on trust, autonomy, and accountability.

Work-Life Balance:
Minimum of 3 weeks vacation, 5 sick days, and 6 personal/flex days, plus a company-wide winter holiday shutdown.

Comprehensive Coverage:
Health, dental, and vision, long-term disability, and a Health Spending Account (HSA).

Family Support:
Flexible parental leave benefits, including top-ups.

Remote Setup: A dedicated work-from-home allowance to get you set up for success.

90, CAD per year (Remote (Canada))