Staff Engineer, Backend Developer

Boast is redefining how companies unlock R&D funding, turning a complex, manual, and audit-prone process into a streamlined, scalable engine for growth. By combining deep technical and R&D tax expertise with purpose-built AI, Boast helps companies across Canada and the U.S. unlock critical funding with confidence so they can focus on building and growing. Since 2011, Boast has helped thousands of businesses access over $600 million in innovation capital.

At Boast, engineers have meaningful ownership over how the product evolves. You’ll have room to shape technical direction, modernize how things are built, explore new AI-enabled capabilities, and contribute across the stack where it matters. It’s a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to stay hands-on while having a real voice in what gets built next.

About the Role
As a Staff Engineer (Backend) , you’ll be one of the most senior technical voices on Boast’s engineering team, helping shape the next phase of a product that is becoming more intelligent, more automated, and increasingly self-service.

This is a genuine hands-on Staff role where you'll design systems, write code, make architectural decisions, and help bring work from idea through implementation. Backend will be your strongest area, but you’ll also work across infrastructure, data, AI-enabled functionality, and the front end when the work calls for it.

There’s meaningful work on both sides of the platform today: building new capabilities while simplifying and modernizing existing systems. You’ll have the opportunity to influence how that balance evolves, help set strong engineering practices, and make thoughtful decisions about where the team invests its time.

We’re looking for someone with deep technical foundations, strong judgment, and genuine curiosity. You’re thoughtful in how you approach new problems, comfortable navigating ambiguity, and able to make sound decisions without over complicating the solution.

Location:

Remote within Canada

Technical environment:
Type Script/Node.js, Python/Django, React, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, GCP, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Datadog, Launch Darkly and LLM APIs.

Key Responsibilities

Own and evolve backend architecture across services, APIs, data models, integrations, and asynchronous or event-driven systems

Lead technical design for high-impact projects and stay hands-on from architecture through implementation and rollout

Build new product capabilities, including AI-enabled features, while helping modernize and consolidate existing systems

Set a strong standard for reliable engineering, including observability, error handling, retries, safe migrations, resilient integrations, and thoughtful incident response

Use AI-assisted development tools as part of your day-to-day work and help the team develop effective, responsible practices for using them

Make pragmatic technical decisions, balancing quality, speed, technical debt, customer impact, and the cost of complexity

Raise the technical bar through design and code reviews, shared engineering practices, clear documentation, and mentorship of other experienced engineers

Partner closely with Product and Design to shape solutions, evaluate trade-offs, and find practical paths from idea to delivery

Contribute across the stack when needed, including infrastructure and front-end work, and help strengthen security, privacy, tenant isolation, and SOC 2 practices

What You Bring

8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years operating at a Senior, Staff, Principal, or comparable level

Deep experience designing, building, and operating backend and distributed systems in production

Strong technical foundations across APIs, data modeling , networking, concurrency, transactions,…