Senior Software Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Software Engineer owning meaningful product and platform systems at Shakepay. Collaborating to define problems, design solutions, and deliver them to production.

Responsibilities

  • Take ambiguous, high-impact problems and drive them from idea to production.
  • Partner closely with Product and Design to define scope, trade-offs, and execution plans.
  • Design, build, and evolve production systems with a strong focus on reliability, correctness, and maintainability.
  • Balance speed and quality, knowing when to move fast and when to slow down.
  • Share ownership of the systems you build, including on-call responsibilities and incident response.
  • Contribute to technical and product decisions that shape the direction of your team
  • Help raise the bar for how the team builds by improving standards, tooling, and processes.

Requirements

  • Strong product and customer judgment. You care about what is being built and why.
  • Proven ownership of features or systems running in production, including reliability and on-call responsibility.
  • Comfort working through ambiguity and making thoughtful trade-offs with incomplete information.
  • A steady desire to improve your craft and the systems around you.
  • Curiosity, pragmatism, and a bias for action.
  • Active use of AI tools in your day-to-day workflow to accelerate development, debugging, and learning.
  • Comfort reading legacy code and not immediately rewriting it all.
  • Backend development using Node.js and TypeScript
  • Relational databases such as Postgres
  • Operating production systems with observability and monitoring (eg. Datadog)
  • Working in containerized or cloud-based environments
  • Comfort reviewing AI-generated PRs with the same skepticism you’d apply to a human PR.

Benefits

  • Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited)
  • Stock options as part of their total compensation
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
  • Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
  • A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
  • 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
  • Parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
  • Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$170,000 - CA$220,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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