About the role

Founding Engineer building impactful software for campus safety and security teams. Collaborate, design, and implement features in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

Shipping real features end-to-end. Backend, frontend, infrastructure, whatever the problem needs.
Leading architecture and design decisions.
You’ll take a problem, such as “we need a workflow engine for incident response”, and own the shape of the solution including architecture, tradeoffs, implementation, and rollout.
Talking to customers, end users and stakeholders - campus safety directors, investigators, emergency managers.

You’ve probably done one of these:
Been a founding or early engineer at a startup that shipped real things (whether or not it worked out).
Started something of your own - a company, a serious side project, an open-source initiative people actually use.
Been the person at a bigger company who shipped the important stuff while everyone else was in meetings.
You write clean code and you care about it, but you also know when to ship and move on. You have strong opinions about tools, trade-offs, and taste - and you’re happy to argue them, and to update them when someone’s right.
You have strong architecture experience. You can design technical standards, create blueprints, decision logs, and technical roadmaps; communicate tradeoffs and align stakeholders.
You have mastered AI tooling. You are all in on agentic coding, and you have multiple agents running simultaneously to accomplish tasks for you. You are AI Native in your work habits, and building AI tools in your free time for personal use, side projects, daily work, etc.
You don’t need handholding. Nobody’s going to assign you tickets. If you’re the kind of person who thrives on being told exactly what to build and when, this won’t be fun for you. You are a builder and you are looking for a hands-on, high-impact building opportunity.

Competitive Market Salary. We benchmark against senior engineers at funded startups.
Equity. A meaningful amount. We’ll be straightforward about numbers early in the process.
Benefits. Extended health/dental benefits plan.
Runway and stability. We’re backed by a growth equity firm with a strong track record of success in B2B SaaS. We’re not going to disappear in six months.
Actual ownership of what you build. Your fingerprints will be all over the product.
Hybrid work style. We’ll get together in person weekly if you’re in the GTA.
Quality tools. Whatever hardware, AI subscriptions, and software you need to be successful.