Senior Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Craft clear, concise, elegant, and thoroughly tested code.

• Participate as a member of a small, agile, integrated product team dedicated to continuous improvement and shared learning.

• Convert complex, cross-system challenges into well-defined execution strategies.

• Deliver code that exceeds the scope of assigned tasks.

• Assume responsibility for monitoring or alerts necessary to support and sustain new initiatives following their launch.

• Significantly influence the team's speed and quality of deliverables.

• Aid fellow team members in problem-solving and skill development.

• Offer valuable technical insights, including the creation of abstraction layers and the application of advanced software design principles.

• Alleviate friction for the team through challenging yet beneficial refactors.

• Take full ownership of major initiatives or complex tasks from inception to completion.

• Collaborate with external stakeholders to clarify end goals when necessary.

• Develop delivery plans for comprehensive initiatives.

• Provide expertise that enhances software delivery beyond the immediate team.

• Deliver solutions that create value for other Engineering teams and ensure widespread availability.

• Facilitate technical planning discussions among teams or departments.

• Tackle challenging problems through extensive technical knowledge.

• Identify opportunities to elevate the skill level of Engineers beyond the team.

• Collaborate within cross-functional teams comprising Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers to deliver financial products at scale.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in building production web applications, including backend services using Python/Django (with Ruby/Rails as a strong plus).

• A degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• Frontend experience with React and TypeScript (with GraphQL/Apollo as an added advantage).

• Experience in integrating with third-party financial or payroll APIs, including webhooks, pagination, idempotency, retries, and maintaining data synchronization.

• Strong understanding of data modeling and source-of-truth design across multiple services.

• Proven experience in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks.

• Hands-on experience with observability tools, including Datadog metrics, traces, and monitors, as well as monitors-as-code using Terraform, and minimizing alert noise.

• Experience in shipping changes utilizing feature flags and staged rollouts.

• Familiarity with analytics tools such as Amplitude to assess release success.

• Ability to produce clear technical documentation, including design documents, runbooks, and investigation summaries.

• Occasional requirement to be on-call outside of regular hours.

• Preferred: knowledge of payroll, tax, or fintech domains; experience with event-driven systems such as Kafka; and careful handling of PII.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus Structure.

• Employer-paid Benefits Plan.

• Health & Wellness Flex Account.

• Wellness Days.

• Paid Holiday Shutdown.

• Wave Days (additional vacation days during the summer).