Full-Stack Engineering Lead

About Rare Days

We’re a multi-disciplinary digital product agency obsessed with helping creators build lasting legacies. Since 2020, we’ve built products at the sweet spot where content meets commerce, empowering established creators and content-led businesses to transform their passion into sustainable success.

Our clients include world-renowned creators like Esther Perel, Dr. Becky, Colin & Samir, and Ryan Trahan, as well as organizations like Airbnb, Notion, and Ziff Davis. We specialize in community-first platforms, membership tools, and creator infrastructure — and we build with care, context, and a clear point of view.

We’re a fully remote team based in Canada and are open to candidates able to work within 4 hours of PST.

We are hiring a Lead Engineer with deep backend expertise and strong fluency across modern web stacks. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on technical challenges, loves building scalable systems, and enjoys collaborating with product, design, and client teams.

You’ll work both independently and with small teams, depending on the project, write production code, and play a key role in steering technical direction.

Technical Leadership & Development

• Oversee day-to-day engineering work, keeping the team unblocked and aligned on priorities
• Architect scalable backend systems using languages and frameworks such as Go and Python. Experience with Kotlin is a plus.
• Contribute to frontend work using React and Type Script as needed
• Drive decision-making around performance, scalability, and system design
• Write clean, maintainable code and ensure engineering best practices are followed
• Lead technical documentation, sprint planning, and ongoing delivery
• Evaluate, integrate, and maintain AI-powered features and services within production systems
• Help clients and internal teams understand the practical trade-offs, risks, and opportunities when incorporating AI into their products — translating technical complexity into clear, actionable guidance

Collaboration & Client Engagement

• Partner with product managers and designers to define and scope solutions
• Lead client-facing conversations around technical strategy and progress
• Present work during demos, milestone check‑ins, and roadmap reviews
• Balance business needs with technical feasibility in collaborative planning sessions

Team Mentorship & Culture

• Provide regular feedback and guidance to engineers
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and leveling processes
• Help foster a strong, inclusive engineering culture rooted in transparency and accountability
• Identify opportunities to improve our tools, processes, and technical standards

• 7+ years of professional engineering experience
• English proficiency
• Experience with Go and Python, including system architecture and performance optimization, is required. Kotlin experience is a plus
• Familiarity with AI-augmented development tooling (e.g., Cursor, Git Hub Copilot, Windsurf), frameworks (e.g., Superpowers, BMad, GSD), and a track record of meaningfully incorporating these into your day‑to‑day engineering workflow
• Hands‑on experience integrating AI or LLM‑powered features into production applications — such as building on top of model APIs, RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, or context‑aware assistants
• Strong knowledge of React, NextJS and Type Script
• Backend experience with APIs, databases (SQL/No
  
  SQL), cloud services (AWS, GCP), and distributed systems
• You can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences and are comfortable leading presentations and deep-dive technical discussions
• You understand how to compromise on business trade‑offs and technical decisions
• You’re comfortable dealing with uncertainty and are capable of disambiguating complex scope and domains to your team
• You care about people and are motivated to help your team members achieve success on projects.

• Experience building creator platforms, media tools, or community-driven products
• Familiarity with Graph
  
  QL, gRPC, or microservice infrastructure
• Interest in developer experience, automation, or Dev Ops tooling

• $150-190k CAD salary
• Extended health…