Example Company
Software engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $150k-$200k
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Join a team building useful software. Work closely with engineering and design to turn new ideas into products.
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Senior Full Stack Developer
- Location
- Toronto
- Type
- Full time
- Posted
- 7MO AGO
About the role
BUILD SOMETHING YOUR NEIGHBOURS WILL LOVE
We’re building home management for GTA homeowners, and a better way for neighbours and the local Pros they trust to be useful to each other.
Our focus is the GTA, and only the GTA for now. We grow one neighbourhood at a time. We’re a local tech company in every sense of the word, and we start with integrity and the belief that good work matters.
We believe homeowners should have everything their home needs in one place, and that neighbourhoods work best when trust runs high and stays local. Commissions should be small and charged only on completed work, so the best Pros can actually say yes. Tech companies should go to work for the locally loved Pros of the GTA, rather than trying to get those Pros to effectively work for the tech company.
If this resonates with you and you’re at a point in your career and your life where you want to do something uniquely difficult for a meaningful outcome, you’ve found your next home.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Senior Full stack Developer is a key contributor responsible for delivering high-quality, scalable software across the frontend and backend. This role involves building performant UIs, designing robust APIs, modeling data flows, and integrating services that support complex product features.
Working closely with product, design, and engineering teams, the developer drives architecture decisions, leads technical implementation, and mentors others on best practices. They balance hands-on execution with systems thinking, consistently improving code quality, performance, and developer experience. The ideal candidate pairs deep technical skill with a strong product mindset and a focus on reliability, usability, and long-term maintainability.
EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP:
We’re a team on a mission. We expect a high degree of ownership from each other and we pair that with higher than usual employee ownership in the company.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
Technical Execution & Ownership
- Architect and implement scalable, maintainable, and observable fullstack applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems (React, Next.js, Node.js, Express/Koa, NestJS)
- Design and optimize relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis) data models to support transactional consistency, efficient querying, and multi-tenancy
- Build robust API layers (REST/GraphQL/gRPC), incorporating input validation, rate limiting, auth middleware, pagination, and real-time event streaming via WebSockets or SSE
- Construct flexible state management patterns (Redux Toolkit, Zustand, React Query) across web applications for efficient data hydration, caching, and optimistic UI
- Implement progressive rendering strategies (SSR, ISR, SSG) to balance performance and SEO within frontend frameworks like Next.js
- Manage frontend build tooling and transpilation (Webpack, Vite, Babel, SWC), including module federation, code-splitting, and lazy loading optimizations
- Develop backend services with clean architecture principles (domain-driven design, hexagonal ports/adapters), enforcing separation of concerns and enabling high testability
- Instrument frontend and backend code with structured logging (Pino, Winston), distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb), and metrics (Prometheus, StatsD) for proactive debugging and performance tuning
- Build automated deployment pipelines for both client and server with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD), including staging environments, ephemeral previews, and rollback mechanisms
- Integrate cloud-native capabilities like object storage (S3), job queues, messaging systems (Kafka, NATS), and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Decision-Making & Collaboration
- Make full stack architectural decisions balancing developer productivity, system scalability, and product roadmap velocity
- Collaborate with product, design, and QA to define technical requirements and delivery plans, including accessibility, internationalization, and performance
- Align frontend and backend concerns via shared contracts (e.g. GraphQL schema, OpenAPI specs) to drive consistency and testability
- Facilitate cross-team decisions for shared infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and development standards
- Transparently communicate tradeoffs and drive alignment across stakeholders on architectural risk, effort, and technical debt remediation
Leadership & Mentorship
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers in front-end and mobile development, accessibility, and system design principles
- Lead code reviews, architecture sessions, and cross-platform design discussions with a focus on performance and accessibility
- Support team learning through documentation, knowledge-sharing, and feedback-driven growth
- Advocate for accessibility and mobile quality in engineering culture and product planning
Agile Process & Delivery
- Drive backlog refinement, estimation, and sprint planning across cross-functional squads with fullstack responsibilities
- Own release readiness for features, including end-to-end testing, canary rollout strategies, and post-deployment observability
- Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines for web and backend services using GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar tools
- Integrate code coverage, static analysis, and test automation into delivery pipelines to support velocity without sacrificing stability
- Continuously improve team workflows via retrospectives, tooling improvements, and process experimentation
WHAT YOU BRING
Candidates should have 6+ years of fullstack experience, with 2+ years leading technical projects or teams. They must be fluent in JavaScript or TypeScript, with strong proficiency in React and backend development using Node.js or similar. Experience building APIs, modeling data, and deploying to cloud infrastructure is essential.
They should be confident owning architecture decisions, mentoring teammates, and collaborating across design, product, and engineering. Familiarity with accessibility standards, performance optimization, and secure coding practices is expected. The ideal candidate delivers scalable, user-focused solutions and thrives in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
THIS IS A GOOD FIT FOR YOU IF…
- You’re mission-driven and looking to solve the mission’s hardest problems.
- You’re at a point in your life and your career where you want to tackle a uniquely demanding job to produce meaningful impact.
- You’re keen to work in-person with a team.
- You show up like an owner.
- You want to value the equity and solve for others.
ROLE SALARY BAND
$150,000 - $190,000
LOCATION
We believe that in-person work builds a level of connection and shared understanding that fully-remote work cannot achieve.
This role requires you to work at our office every Monday, every Thursday and every second Tuesday. Reasonable exceptions are made when life happens, but these should be infrequent.
If you are not already located in Toronto or one of its nearby suburbs, we will only be able to consider your application if you already have concrete plans to relocate to the Toronto area.
OUR VALUES
❤ Integrity – We prioritize integrity over comfort, convenience, and the short-cuts of success that drive metrics but undermine trust.
❤ Trust – We cannot win unless we win on trust. Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. We need to be built for it in our DNA.
❤ Competitiveness – We believe that competitiveness is a critical complement to integrity and trust. If we’re not our customer’s best choice, then we’re wasting their time. We believe in the power of healthy competitive markets, and we believe we need to be uniquely competitive to win in this space. We have too much respect for the other players in this space to expect things to be easy. That’s a good thing.
❤ Empowerment – Any win we achieve needs to be first and foremost a win that we deliver to others, starting with our customers, and their long term best interests.
VACATION AND BENEFITS
We know the power it takes to be successful in a challenging mission and we want to ensure our team is rested and ready to go.
- We offer 30 days of PTO annually, which can be used for vacation, personal days, or illness. Five of these days are designated as company-wide closures around the start and end of the year.
- In addition, our benefits plan covers health, dental and wellness to add that extra pep in our step, and help us sleep at night.
- We have a tech allowance benefit to help set you up for work.
- We have pregnancy and parental leave policies, and we’re ready to support your family’s next stage of growth.
EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP
We’re a team on a mission. We expect a high degree of ownership from each other and we pair that with higher-than-usual employee ownership in the company.
A NOTE ON HUMAN BEINGS
We believe that meaning is created between human beings. This job description was written by a human, and every resume will be reviewed by a human.
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