9h ago
Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Vancouver, Toronto or Remote (Canada)
$240k-$278k / year
full-timesenior Remote
🛠 Tech Stack
💼 About This Role
You'll architect and scale key systems like databases and distributed jobs for a growing fintech platform that serves self-employed Americans. You'll drive reliability, observability, and developer tooling while mentoring engineers. This role offers ownership of critical infrastructure at a fast-paced startup with broad impact across a 30+ person engineering org.
🎯 What You'll Do
- Architect future versions of databases and distributed job systems.
- Design safer, reproducible developer tooling for deployments.
- Drive observability and incident response excellence.
- Mentor engineers on reliable, fault-tolerant system design.
📋 Requirements
- 8+ years of backend experience in public cloud.
- Proven track record scaling and troubleshooting production systems.
- Deep understanding of end-to-end request flow across stack layers.
- Strong knowledge of SLAs and SLOs implementation.
✨ Nice to Have
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, StatsD, or Prometheus.
- Working knowledge of PCI and SOC2 compliance.
- Familiarity with Terraform or CloudFormation.
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- 🏖️ Generous vacation policy
- 🏥 100% covered health benefits for employees
- 👶 16 weeks paid parental leave
- 🏠 Work anywhere remote or office options
- 📈 Meaningful equity
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