Developer (Remote Canada)

Directive Consulting is the leading B2B performance marketing agency that delivers real revenuenot just leads.

We use Customer Generation (a marketing methodology developed by us) to cut through the noise. Forget MQLswere here to drive pipeline fuel SQLs and scale brands that are serious about growth. From Paid Media and SEO to CRO RevOps and Go-To-Market Strategy we build marketing engines that win in SaaS and across B2B industries.

We move fast. We think boldly. We are elite. We hire people who challenge the status quo and push campaigns past whats expected - sparking demand for bold innovative brands. If you live for performance love solving hard problems and want your work to actually mean something youll fit right in.

But heres the fun partwe dont just deliver results; were shaping the future of marketing. Ready to build something that breaks the mold

This is a Remote position in Canada and the annual base salary range for this position is $90000- $120000 CAD. This salary range is an estimate and the actual salary may vary based on Directives compensation practices job related skills and depth of experience.

About the Role

Were looking for a Developer to join our Operational Technology team for our Stratos platform. This role is all about building reliable secure and measurable features that power both our internal teams and client portals. Youll integrate best-in-class third-party systems write clean code and help elevate engineering practices across the org. This is a hands-on role where youll be trusted to design build and ship production-ready services while collaborating with product design and operations leaders.

What Youll Do:

• Design and implement services APIs and integrations that power internal tools and client-facing portals

• Translate business problems into technical solutions slicing work for incremental value and managing risk with feature flags and staged rollouts

• Ensure marketing data correctness (think WoW/MoM metrics) with thoughtful handling of boundaries and filters

• Establish access controls and safe patterns for internal tooling (parameterized queries RBAC least-privilege access)

• Ship support and iterate: fix bugs improve performance and reduce cost without sacrificing UX

• Add telemetry alerts and clear runbooks to make issues easy to detect diagnose and resolve

• Document designs and trade-offs with concise specs/RFCs
  

What Youll Bring:

• Experience: 3 years of professional software development with production ownership (midsenior range)

• Languages: Strong in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python; you write clean tested and review-friendly code

• APIs & Integrations: Skilled with REST/GraphQL OAuth2/OIDC/JWT pagination rate limits idempotency and resilient contracts

• Data & SQL: Confident querying and shaping data for analytics and reporting; you validate results and avoid common pitfalls

• Cloud Delivery: Experience shipping services on managed compute (serverless or containers) with CI/CD and observability in place (GCP a plus)

• Low-/No-Code Enablement: Familiarity with Retool Appsmith Power Apps or automation tools (Zapier Make n8n) to empower non-engineers safely

• AI-Forward Mindset: Comfortable using tools like Copilot or Cursor to accelerate quality delivery and integrating LLM APIs where it makes sense

• Strong Communicator and Ownership: Ability to handle a fast paced environment with imperfect information and able to talk through ambiguity and drive outcomes.
  

Additional Things That Will Impress Us:

• Marketing data literacy: Familiarity with CRM (Salesforce/HubSpot) web analytics (GA4) paid media APIs and attribution/measurement basics.

• Security & compliance: Leastprivilege IAM secrets management PII handling and familiarity with audit frameworks (SOC 2/ISO 27001) in product engineering contexts.

• AI integrations: Consuming Vertex AI endpoints or vendor LLM APIs; prompt design/validation and safe fallbacks (timeouts retries guardrails).

• Frontend fundamentals: React/TypeScript basics designsystem usage accessibility (WCAG) and performance profiling for portal components.

• Experimentation & analytics: Feature flags A/B testing exposure and KPI definition habits that support decisionmaking.

Level-Specific Expectations

At Senior:

• Lead designs for cross-team features; define integration contracts and guardrails

• Coordinate vendor and partner work to a clear quality bar

• Proactively manage reliability cost and observability

• Mentor peers through code reviews and pairing

At Intermediate:

• Implement designs end-to-end with clean code tests and docs

• Raise risks early and grow into owning designs and staged rollouts

What We Offer:

• Compensation for this role includes a competitive base salary

• Medical dental vision plans disability and life insurance coverage for you and your family that fit your lifestyle

  • Including a 100% employer-paid plan for you and a 50% employer contribution for your dependents (US CAD MX)

• Benefits to Support the Whole Person:

  • Mental - Access to certified therapists through Spring Health membership to Headspace

  • Physical - Physical therapy through Omada thousands of Aaptiv virtual workouts complimentary One Medical membership for primary and virtual care

  • Time Off - Unlimited PTO (2-week minimum) Paid Company Holidays Your Birthday Off End of Year Recharge (Closed December 24 - January 1) Paid Parental Leave

  • Financial - Traditional and Roth 401(k) with a 3% company match

  • Bonus - Annual bonus based on tenure which scales in total amount over time

  • Annual Company-wide Retreat

Work Environment Requirements

As a remote-first company youll have the ability to work from your home office. For some positions as posted we will accommodate global opportunities where we have established businesses including Canada Mexico and the UK. For global locations you must have established and current work authorization and permanently reside in that country.

This role has the opportunity to operate 100% virtually from your home office. We primarily collaborate with our colleagues through virtual meetings (Zoom) and this role you will be required to operate a laptop computer (PC or Mac available) computer software platforms and other office productivity tools as necessary. Due to the nature of this role you must be able to remain stationary for extended periods must be able to observe and interpret written and/or verbal communication must have reliable internet access and a professional background.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

If you require reasonable accommodations in completing this application interviewing completing any pre-employment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process direct your inquiries to

Additional Information

At Directive one of our core values is People First. Were committed to fostering a more diverse and inclusive culture in the digital landscape. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status. #LI-KD1