Senior Engineer – Entitlement

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Guide, mentor, and empower a team of engineers, encouraging innovation, accountability, and teamwork.

• Conduct one-on-one meetings, offer coaching and feedback, and facilitate professional growth.

• Engage in recruitment, onboarding, team development strategies, performance evaluation, annual reviews, and feedback discussions.

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code.

• Contribute to significant development projects and resolve engineering obstacles.

• Lead architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making processes.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and stakeholders to define and implement solutions.

• Partner with Product to shape epics, organize sprints, and prioritize the backlog.

• Manage team-level sprint planning, delivery schedules, and status updates.

• Ensure the team is accountable for sprint commitments and timely delivery.

• Identify and oversee technical dependencies and risks.

• Promote best practices in coding, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring.

• Drive ongoing enhancements in tools, workflows, and team processes.

• Assist in defining and executing the long-term technical vision for the team.

• Develop and maintain client-facing components within both monolithic and microservices architectures.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including 1–2 years in a leadership or team lead role.

• Familiarity with AWS Lambda, ECS, SQS, Kinesis, Sendgrid, Postfix, and Terraform.

• Proven experience in designing and delivering scalable, production-ready systems and applications.

• Proficient in contributing to both frontend and/or backend codebases.

• Strong understanding of modern development practices, architectural patterns, and engineering tools.

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, particularly across cross-functional teams.

• Experience in delivering reliable, high-performance REST APIs.

• Keen interest in database and query performance optimization.

• Familiarity with scrum/agile development methodologies.

• Experience with code reviews, service ownership, fully automated testing, microservices, and rapid/continuous releases.

• Technical knowledge in email processing and tracking within large systems.

• Experience with serverless technologies, queuing, and streaming.

• Willingness to be on-call for support and to directly engage with clients as necessary.

• Previous experience in the finance industry and/or at a SaaS startup.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Flexible work hours and remote work options.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• A vibrant team culture that values innovation and collaboration.