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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