Staff Software Developer

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

📋 Description

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of new platform features within a collaborative agile framework.

• Develop, support, and maintain essential services that power our Federated GraphQL API, event-driven architecture, and regulatory compliance tools.

• Facilitate integrations with internal services by closely collaborating with engineering teams and organizational stakeholders.

• Assist teams in creating features for our customer-facing applications (theScore, theScore Bet, Hollywood Casino) by defining project scope, contributing to technical specifications, and identifying edge cases and performance enhancements through code and design reviews.

• Create, scale, and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL queries.

• Take ownership of observability practices across our systems, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response (DataDog, Bugsnag).

• Proactively identify bottlenecks and systemic risks, leading initiatives to resolve them before they affect reliability or scalability.

• Mentor engineers throughout the organization and promote a culture of technical excellence.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years in a software engineering position.

• A first-principles thinker who delves into root causes instead of merely addressing surface symptoms.

• Proven experience in owning complex systems from start to finish.

• Comfortable navigating a polyglot codebase that includes Elixir, Java, Rust, and TypeScript.

• Motivated to design, build, and optimize distributed systems capable of withstanding real-world demands.

• Understands the distinction between an API that presents a data model and one that conveys a domain, with strong opinions on which to develop.

• Solid grounding in computer science, with deep expertise in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms, and software design.

• Sets high standards for code quality and architecture within teams and can clearly articulate the importance of these standards.

• Extensive experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL.

• Familiar with caching strategies and the associated trade-offs when applied at scale.

• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest, or their equivalents.

• Background in high-throughput or real-time domains such as sports betting, gaming, or financial services.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes.

• Experience with AI technologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.

• Enjoyable and relaxed work atmosphere.

• Reimbursements for education and conferences.

• Parental leave top-up.

• Opportunities for career advancement and mentoring others.