Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Software Engineer and lead initiatives and complex projects, influencing technical direction and architectural decisions. You will own high-impact projects, mentor engineers, and contribute to on-call duties. Partner with product management to align engineering work with business goals and contribute to team discussions, code reviews, and strategic decisions. Write clear documentation and demonstrate mastery in modern programming languages, full-stack frameworks, and related tools and technologies. Lead projects, mentor team members, and drive best practices, effectively communicating with stakeholders across business units.

Requirements

• Mastery in one or more modern programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, NodeJS, and Java preferred)
• Familiar with modern full-stack frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Express, Django) and front-end frameworks (React preferred)
• Strong understanding and desire to perform full-stack development, including design, development, testing, scaling, and observability/monitoring
• Proficient with tools and technologies such as Git, Postman, command line/shell, SQL, HTML/CSS, and browser developer tools
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects, mentor team members, and drive best practices across teams
• Experience decomposing complex projects into actionable components and contributing to architectural patterns
• Effective communication skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders across business units
• Ability to build complex tech design, to a high degree of competency, unassisted
• Strong sense of ownership of projects and delivery
• Able to decompose projects into component pieces with confidence
• Respected contributor and mentor
• Drives process change across teams
• Effectively communicates with all stakeholders across the business (technical and non-technical)
• Contributes to patterns + architecture
• Effectively balances business needs with potential solutions
• Ability to express their solutions and ideas through documentation, diagrams, and RFCs
• Experienced in Agile/Scrum development practices
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, accountability, and ability to drive projects to completion independently
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Minimum 7 years of experience as a Software Engineer with at least 2 in a Senior role. Preference for experience in a SaaS product company
• Proficiency in English (written and spoken)

Responsibilities

• Operates at a high technical level, leading initiatives and complex projects
• Influences technical direction and architectural decisions
• Owns projects that have a high impact on the company or product
• Partners with product management to align engineering work with business goals
• Mentors multiple engineers, focusing on technical excellence and team culture
• Contributes to on-call / pager duty, taking responsibility, accountability and ownership during a high impact incident
• Proactively contributes to team discussions, code reviews and strategic decisions
• Writes good and clear documentation to express solutions and design systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, and NoSQL (MongoDB) a plus
• Experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and application containerization (Docker) a plus
• Experience with tools such as Linear, Notion, GitHub, Slack, and Python
• Experience with fundraising software is a plus

Benefits

• We’re a remote-first company
• We also have generous PTO plans (4 weeks of vacation, volunteer time off, plus an office closure from Christmas to New Year’s Day!)
• And support paid parental leave (12 weeks)
• We offer robust medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverages
• And have a 4% match on RRSP