Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

Our client is a well-funded, series A, growth-oriented scale-up. They develop and distribute an app-based and browser-accessed fintech platform with a wide range of capabilities currently targeting Canadian consumers and businesses. They have identified several attractive product opportunities and are currently adding ~8 senior and staff engineers to expand and accelerate the product roadmap, pay down technical debt, anticipate and stay compliant with regulators, and harden the product and organization’s InfoSec posture.

The client’s existing product offers customers a user-friendly experience and a suite of features and incentives that reduce the friction between fiat and cryptocurrencies and between cryptocurrencies and everyday purchases. They have over 1.3M signups, 6-figures of monthly active users, and maintain a healthy treasury to support operations, invest in growth opportunities, and mitigate risks.

These roles will see you joining a research & development function of 35, 23 of whom are in software engineering (at the time of writing), on one of the 5 domain-specific engineering squads. This is a maturing organization and engineering team that has adopted specialization and instituted twice-yearly performance and compensation reviews.

The tech stack is presently:

• Backend: JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Feathers.js, Sequelize
• Frontend: TypeScript, React/React Native, Vue.js
• Infrastructure: Docker, Github CI/CD, AWS EKS

The client has high expectations of themselves and the work can be intense. They acknowledge this by offering their team members competitive cash compensation practices and a generous, differentiated suite of perks and benefits that bolsters their mission-driven employer value proposition.

The company is a synchronous, remote-first environment with a majority of its team in the Eastern Time Zone. Team members are offered the flexibility to work across Canada, and occasionally from abroad, but must start the workday within 3 hours of 8am ET OR finish the workday within 3 hours of 5pm ET.

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of experience shipping production-grade, customer-facing software
• You have expertise with TypeScript/JavaScript
• You have experience designing and implementing both backend and frontend systems
• You have experience mentoring engineers and providing technical guidance and feedback
• You have experience working in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment

Requirements

• It’s a bonus if you have experience building large-scale consumer-facing systems
• You are proficient in the Bitcoin and Ethereum protocols with extensive knowledge of blockchain technologies, including smart contract development, consensus mechanisms, and cryptographic security practices
• You have experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Feathers.js, Sequelize, React/React Native, PostgreSQL, AWS