Shakepay

Staff Software Engineer

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8 days ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Drive ambiguous, high-impact problems from idea through production.
  • Partner with Product and Design to define scope, trade-offs, and execution plans.
  • Design, build, and evolve production systems with emphasis on reliability, correctness, and maintainability.
  • Own built systems, including on-call responsibilities and incident response.
  • Contribute to technical and product decisions shaping the team’s direction.
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Requirements

  • Bring strong product and customer judgment and care about what is being built and why.
  • Have proven ownership of production features or systems, including reliability and on-call responsibilities.
  • Work comfortably through ambiguity and make thoughtful trade-offs with incomplete information.
  • Use AI tools in daily development, debugging, and learning workflows and critically review AI-generated pull requests.
  • Have backend development experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
  • Have experience with relational databases such as Postgres.
  • Have experience operating production systems with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog.
  • Be comfortable working in containerized or cloud-based environments.
  • Fluency in English is required.
  • Experience with React Native, financial, payments, crypto-related systems, or high-growth product environments is preferred but not required.

Benefits

  • Base salary is listed separately in the salary fields; the role also includes equity compensation and stock options.
  • Full health and dental benefits begin on Day 1, including a separate mental health budget.
  • Remote-friendly work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to offices in Montreal and Toronto.
  • $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training.
  • 20 vacation days per year, plus a $1,000 bonus if all vacation is used.
  • Parental leave top-up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks.
  • Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites.
  • Generous AI token budget, currently unlimited.

Tech Stack

DatadogNode.jsPostgreSQLReact NativeTypeScript

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About Shakepay

51-200 employees
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