Founding Senior SW Engineer
Founding Senior SW Engineer
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05-04-2025
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Senior Software Engineer (Toronto) Department Engineering Location Toronto Canada
Get in on the ground floor of our new R&D office! Over time our office will grow into a pillar of the technology community in Toronto. We want to attract thought leaders who are passionate about solving engineering problems to form the foundation of our team. Being a founding engineer means that youll have a high degree of impact and autonomy on how the engineering team and culture grows in Toronto.
Who You Are
Are you passionate about design and development Do you have experience building deploying and maintaining largescale distributed applications Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and join a team of innovative selfstarters in a supportive entrepreneurial environment As a Senior Software Engineer you will be leveraging your experience working within a serviceoriented architecture. You will be responsible for separating data and functionality as necessary and will demonstrate an understanding and use of automated testing as a productivity multiplier. You will be working primarily in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript but prior knowledge is not a requirement.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
Collaborate with a cross functional team to find solutions to customer challenges
Take ownership of designing and developing functionalities that are exposed via web
Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership knowledgesharing and mentorship
Add capabilities to our highvolume faulttolerant processing infrastructure
Implement internal services
Enhance our testing monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure
Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure
Perform other related duties as assigned
How You Will Do Your Work
As a Senior Software Engineer how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role your foundational knowledge skills abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:
Good judgement the exercise of critical thinking analyzing and assessing problems and implications identifying patterns making connections of underlying issues understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies and taking ownership of the outcome.
Resourcefulness taking a cando approach even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing whats in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have whether its working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.
Teamwork and communication putting our collective best together through documentation collaboration relationshipbuilding listening empathy recruiting and evangelism.
Influence and leadership fostering a community of knowledgesharing collaboration mentorship and forwardthinking.
Skills and knowledge the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge knowhow and best practices to continually enhance and improve. In addition we all focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
Camaraderie Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. Youre an active listener treat people respectfully and have a strong desire to know and help others.
Openness Your default is to be open. Youre willing to share information understand other perspectives and consider new possibilities. Youre curious ask open questions and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
Grit You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. Youre committed earnest and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
Integrity Simply put do what you say and say what youll do. Youre honest and forthright have a strong moral compass and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
Simplicity Be like Einstein: Everything should be made as simple as possible but no simpler.
Qualifications
5 years of professional handson experience
Strong objectoriented design and coding skills
Experience working with complicated systems at scale
Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
Experience building new feature from scratch using clean organized and scalable code
Experience supporting other engineers and acting as a tech lead
Experience working using Agile/Scrum methodology in a fastpaced environment
Experience in a highgrowth environment working with deadlines and milestones
Technologies Used
Ruby on Rails Javascript/React Redux Sidekiq React Native GraphQL MySQL AWS Git Apollo Redis
ElasticSearch Docker InfluxDB Redshift Jenkins Nagios CircleCI DataDog
Get in on the ground floor of our new R&D office! Over time our office will grow into a pillar of the technology community in Toronto. We want to attract thought leaders who are passionate about solving engineering problems to form the foundation of our team. Being a founding engineer means that youll have a high degree of impact and autonomy on how the engineering team and culture grows in Toronto.
Who You Are
Are you passionate about design and development Do you have experience building deploying and maintaining largescale distributed applications Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and join a team of innovative selfstarters in a supportive entrepreneurial environment As a Senior Software Engineer you will be leveraging your experience working within a serviceoriented architecture. You will be responsible for separating data and functionality as necessary and will demonstrate an understanding and use of automated testing as a productivity multiplier. You will be working primarily in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript but prior knowledge is not a requirement.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
Collaborate with a cross functional team to find solutions to customer challenges
Take ownership of designing and developing functionalities that are exposed via web
Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership knowledgesharing and mentorship
Add capabilities to our highvolume faulttolerant processing infrastructure
Implement internal services
Enhance our testing monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure
Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure
Perform other related duties as assigned
How You Will Do Your Work
As a Senior Software Engineer how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role your foundational knowledge skills abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:
Good judgement the exercise of critical thinking analyzing and assessing problems and implications identifying patterns making connections of underlying issues understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies and taking ownership of the outcome.
Resourcefulness taking a cando approach even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing whats in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have whether its working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.
Teamwork and communication putting our collective best together through documentation collaboration relationshipbuilding listening empathy recruiting and evangelism.
Influence and leadership fostering a community of knowledgesharing collaboration mentorship and forwardthinking.
Skills and knowledge the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge knowhow and best practices to continually enhance and improve. In addition we all focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
Camaraderie Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. Youre an active listener treat people respectfully and have a strong desire to know and help others.
Openness Your default is to be open. Youre willing to share information understand other perspectives and consider new possibilities. Youre curious ask open questions and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
Grit You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. Youre committed earnest and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
Integrity Simply put do what you say and say what youll do. Youre honest and forthright have a strong moral compass and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
Simplicity Be like Einstein: Everything should be made as simple as possible but no simpler.
Qualifications
5 years of professional handson experience
Strong objectoriented design and coding skills
Experience working with complicated systems at scale
Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
Experience building new feature from scratch using clean organized and scalable code
Experience supporting other engineers and acting as a tech lead
Experience working using Agile/Scrum methodology in a fastpaced environment
Experience in a highgrowth environment working with deadlines and milestones
Technologies Used
Ruby on Rails Javascript/React Redux Sidekiq React Native GraphQL MySQL AWS Git Apollo Redis
ElasticSearch Docker InfluxDB Redshift Jenkins Nagios CircleCI DataDog
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
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