Staff Engineer

Overview

Location:

REMOTE / Toronto, Ontario
This job allows you to work remotely.

• Ownership
  • Takes ownership of technical direction for a product area or system domain.
  • Proactively drives architectural improvements. Sets technical standards and influences adoption across teams.
  • Helps resolve and unblock complex technical challenges across the teams.
  • Identifies and defines solutions for the most impactful technical problems facing the organization, often before they are widely recognized.
• Product & Customer
  • Deeply understands customer pain points and how our product solves those problems.
  • Partners with product and engineering leadership to share the long-term technical and product roadmap.
  • Guides non-technical stakeholders toward technically sound solutions. Translates complex systems into clear tradeoffs.
• Technical Proficiency
  • Architect and leads implementation of systems that scale with our data and customers.
  • Identifies and leads key initiatives to improve reliability, observability, and performance.
  • Trusted reviewer and advisor for architecture, design, and implementation across multiple teams.
  • Ensures web security best practices are followed to safeguard user data and defend against common vulnerabilities such as XSS, CSRF, and SQL injection.
  • Excels at managing complexity and consistently simplifying the systems.
• Operations & Communication
  • Ensures our systems and processes support safe, rapid iteration and robust uptime. Leads engineering standards and communicates complex technical topics clearly to engineers.
  • Creates technical documentation, guidelines, and reusable patterns for others to follow.
• Leadership
  • Acts as a technical multiplier by mentoring engineers, creating opportunities for all, and elevates the technical bar of the entire organization.
  • Drives cross-functional collaboration and alignment between engineering and product.

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong experience with Java and Spring Boot (or equivalent frameworks)
• Familiarity with Google Cloud (GCP) or other major cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
• Experience with Vue.js or comparable frontend frameworks like React, Angular, or Svelte
• Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases
• Experience working with microservices and distributed systems
• Excellent collaboration and problem-solving skills
• A deep sense of curiosity and eagerness to learn, question, and continuously improve