Senior Developer

Team: IT

Location: Canada

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

The Senior Developer will design, develop, and maintain critical application features across the full technology stack. This role requires strong ownership, technical excellence, and a collaborative mindset to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions while helping strengthen engineering practices across the team.

• Own feature development from concept through delivery, including backend architecture, frontend implementation, testing, demonstrations, and production release.
• Design, build, and maintain web and mobile application capabilities that support business and customer needs.
• Solve complex engineering challenges related to scalability, concurrency, background processing, data ingestion, and system performance.
• Integrate and maintain third-party services and tools to ensure reliable platform operations.
• Collaborate with Product, Customer Care, Finance, and other teams to define requirements and resolve technical challenges.
• Participate in code reviews, pair programming, knowledge sharing, and mentorship to improve team capabilities.
• Use AI-powered tools and workflows to improve development efficiency and reduce operational friction.
• Contribute to secure software development lifecycle practices by writing clean, tested, maintainable, and production-ready code.
• Analyze application performance and use data-driven approaches to identify improvements and validate technical decisions.
• Balance rapid experimentation with long-term engineering quality when building and scaling new solutions.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is a versatile full-stack engineer with strong Ruby on Rails experience, solid software engineering fundamentals, and a passion for building reliable products. They are comfortable working independently, solving complex problems, and collaborating within an agile development environment.

• 4+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails experience building and maintaining production applications.
• Strong frontend development skills with JavaScript and experience working with React, React Native, or similar component-based frameworks.
• Strong SQL and data analysis abilities, with experience using data to troubleshoot issues and guide technical decisions.
• Deep understanding of software engineering principles, including SOLID principles, domain-driven design, testing practices, and performant application design.
• Full-stack development mindset with experience owning features across backend, frontend, automated testing, and deployment.
• Experience solving scale and concurrency challenges, including background processing, queuing systems, and third-party data integrations.
• Familiarity with Agile development practices, including sprint planning, story grooming, stand-ups, and Scrum methodologies.
• Ability to adapt between fast experimentation and building long-term maintainable solutions.
• Experience with modern development tools such as Git, GitHub, Jira, and standard coding environments.
• Strong communication skills, ownership mentality, and willingness to contribute to team growth through collaboration and mentorship.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation:
  • Canada: Base salary range of CA$130K – CA$170K plus CA$15.5K bonus.
  • United States: Base salary range of $160K – $200K plus $15.5K bonus.
  • Fully remote work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere.
  • Flexible paid time off program with up to 6 weeks of vacation.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits from the first day of employment.
  • Enhanced mental health coverage and wellness stipend.
  • Inclusive parental leave benefits.
  • Access to earned wage programs.
  • Real-time market-based salary reviews.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.
  • Supportive and collaborative remote-first culture.
  • Opportunity to contribute to technology that improves employee financial wellbeing at scale.