Senior Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Tackle ambiguous, high-impact challenges and guide them from concept to implementation.

• Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to establish scope, trade-offs, and execution strategies.

• Design, develop, and enhance production systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, accuracy, and maintainability.

• Strike a balance between speed and quality, understanding when to expedite and when to take a more deliberate approach.

• Share responsibility for the systems you create, including on-call duties and incident management.

• Contribute to technical and product decisions that influence the trajectory of your team.

• Elevate the standards of team building by enhancing processes, tooling, and overall quality.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong judgment regarding products and customers; you are invested in what is built and its purpose.

• Demonstrated ownership of features or systems in production, including reliability and on-call responsibilities.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making informed trade-offs with limited information.

• A consistent desire to refine your skills and improve the surrounding systems.

• Curiosity, practicality, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

• Active engagement with AI tools in your daily workflow to enhance development, debugging, and learning.

• Ability to read legacy code without an immediate urge to refactor it entirely.

• Experience in backend development with Node.js and TypeScript.

• Familiarity with relational databases such as Postgres.

• Expertise in managing production systems with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog).

• Experience working in containerized or cloud-based environments.

• Ability to critically review AI-generated pull requests with the same scrutiny applied to human-generated ones.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous budget for AI tokens (currently unlimited).

• Stock options included in total compensation.

• Comprehensive health and dental benefits, along with a dedicated budget for mental health care.

• Remote-friendly work environment: Operate from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.

• An annual budget of $2,000 for courses, certifications, and training to aid in career advancement.

• 20 vacation days per year, with a $1,000 bonus if all vacation days are used.

• Parental leave top-up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.

• Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite events to foster connection.