Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Makeship empowers influencers, creators, and brands of all sizes to develop and launch limited-edition products that matter to their fans. Leveraging our design, manufacturing, and marketing expertise, we work with our partners to bring their products to life through our community-powered crowdfunding platform. Each product is given a window of 21 days to be funded by the community before we produce and ship to fans worldwide. We put our brand behind every product and guarantee quality and ethical sourcing.

As an early team member, you'll play a huge role in shaping our culture, our process, and the future of Makeship. Every day, you'll collaborate, learn more about the content creation space, and watch your work impact the company and the community! We want this to be the best work experience of your life, so we'll pay you well, offer great benefits, invest deeply in your growth, and welcome you with our branded swag. You will also be joining one of Canada's fastest-growing start-ups!

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to play a key part in building, scaling, and shaping Makeship's platform as a part of one of the fastest-moving industries in the world. Working on a cross-functional team, this position delivers high-impact solutions that serve both creators and their fans.

This role combines deep technical expertise with leadership. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead complex technical initiatives, make architectural decisions that balance short and long-term needs, and raise the bar for code quality and best practices across the team. Beyond writing code, you will improve platform reliability and resiliency, and drive investments in tooling, observability, and processes.

In this role, you also act as a mentor and role model — supporting the growth of peers and junior engineers, and fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Lead the technical design, development, and delivery of complex features and projects, ensuring high quality and scalability.
• Define and contribute to technical roadmaps in collaboration with engineering managers and product leaders.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while raising the bar for code reviews, testing, and overall engineering practices.
• Mentor and support other developers through coaching, knowledge sharing, pairing and delegating where appropriate.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and make pragmatic choices that balance technical needs with business priorities.
• Collaborate closely with the product manager, designer, and data analyst, on your team to ensure solutions align with user and business needs.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, risks, and opportunities for platform improvement.
• Implement and refine best practices within the engineering team.
• Support system reliability by troubleshooting, debugging, and improving monitoring and observability practices.

What you bring:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 2 years in a senior/lead capacity.
• Full-stack development experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, NextJS) and backend service design (Go or similar languages)
• Technical leadership, having guided and delivered complex projects from conception to production, making key architectural decisions and raising engineering standards
• System architecture ownership with experience designing scalable, resilient systems while proactively managing technical debt and platform improvements
• Strong mentorship and coaching skills and a passion for helping others grow in technical excellence and supporting continuous improvement
• Ability to communicate technical ideas effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders while listening actively and fostering a culture of trust and collaboration
• Demonstrated skills in debugging and resolving production issues under pressure while implementing monitoring and operational best practices

Bonus:

• Ecommerce industry knowledge: experience with platforms like Shopify, understanding of payment processing, order management, and retail business workflows
• Third-party integration ownership: experience managing and optimizing vendor relationships and technical integrations for both product features and engineering tooling (analytics, monitoring, etc.)
• Observability practices: hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, implementing alerting strategies, and building dashboards for system health and business metrics
• Component architecture and design systems: experience building scalable frontend architectures, maintaining design systems, and collaborating with design tools like Figma and frameworks like Tailwind
• Data modelling and integration: experience designing data models that integrate and standardize data from multiple third-party sources, with understanding of schema design, data transformation patterns, and API data structures

Benefits & perks:

• Work remotely anywhere in Canada and/or access any of our hubs
• Health and dental benefits from day 1
• 4 weeks of paid vacation (including paid time off on your birthday)
• An additional 1 week of paid time off during the winter holidays
• Virtual & In-Person Social Events
• Annual Paid Volunteer Day Off
• 1:1 RRSP Matching Program Up to 3%
• $500 Pre-Tax Annual Health & Wellness Allowance
• $400 Pre-Tax Home Office Setup Allowance
• $65 Pre-Tax Monthly Phone Allowance
• Maternity and Parental Leave Top-Up Program
• Education Assistance Program
• Employee Referral Program
• Tenured Rewards Program

Salary Band: $120-130k CAD per annum. Individual salaries will be dependent on unique skills, experience and qualifications.

Vacancy Status: Existing vacancy

AI Use Disclosure: As part of our hiring process, we may use AI-powered tools to support tasks such as application screening and note-taking. These tools are used to assist our team, and all hiring decisions are made by humans.

We are committed to fair and unbiased hiring practices. If you require accommodations or have questions about how your application is assessed, please let us know.

At Makeship we are committed to fostering an environment that welcomes people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We are passionate about building an equitable and inclusive culture for our unique and diverse team of employees which makes us Makeship. As an equal-opportunity employer, we value and embrace everyone's opinions and differences, and actively seek new Makeshippers who will work respectfully with our team, propelling our company and the community forward. If there are any accommodations we can provide to make your interview experience more accessible and inclusive, please let us know in your application.