Staff Software Engineer

2 months ago

Remote, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across maintenance, reliability, performance, and product development work.
Partner with Product and stakeholders to clarify requirements, technical constraints, customer pain points, production issues, and operational risks.
Improve delivery quality through better patterns, code review, technical planning, and rollout practices.
Improve testability, observability, reliability, maintainability, and technical debt management.
Mentor engineers through technical guidance, pairing, code review, and design discussions.
Contribute to process improvements that help the team plan, deliver, and operate more effectively.

Significant experience as a senior or staff-level software engineer on product-focused teams.
Experience working in large, mature, or complex codebases and making incremental improvements that reduce risk.
Ability to balance customer needs, business priorities, technical debt, and delivery risk.
Strong focus on reliability, performance, testability, and operational quality.
Ability to create technical clarity from complex systems, unclear boundaries, and imperfect abstractions.
Clear communication with engineers, product managers, support teams, and other stakeholders.
Ability to use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully while maintaining strong engineering judgment.
Experience leading through influence, mentoring engineers, and improving team execution.
Preferred experience in booking, ecommerce, travel, tours and activities, or other operationally complex domains.
Preferred experience modernizing older systems while continuing to ship customer-facing work.
Strong PHP experience in production environments.
Strong experience with React, Postgres, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling.
Experience improving test coverage, deployment confidence, incident response, or production diagnostics.

51-200 employees