Senior Software Engineer
Generac Power Systems1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve high-load, highly concurrent backend services for ecobee products and the Energy Control Platform.
- Design and implement microservices using modern technologies and evaluate new tools when they improve outcomes.
- Influence technical direction, systems architecture, engineering decisions, and the platform roadmap.
- Work across the full software delivery lifecycle, including code review, merging, cloud or data-center deployment, and reliability improvements.
- Use metrics, participate in a healthy on-call rotation, and build stable, redundant, resilient systems.
- Address scale, concurrency, large data sets, security, redundancy, and failover for the IoT platform.
- Share knowledge, mentor teammates, support team well-being, and improve engineering practices and processes.
- Use AI-assisted development tools in development workflows and validate their output through testing, code review, and incremental rollout.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Go and designing, implementing, and debugging microservices.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or AWS and both NoSQL and relational databases.
- Confidence with systems design and architecture and the full lifecycle of getting code into production.
- Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, sound design patterns, metrics, and reliability practices.
- Ability to work effectively with large-scale, concurrent systems and considerations including security, redundancy, and failover.
- Experience or willingness to work with Java, Python, and JavaScript as appropriate for the task.
- Hands-on experience using AI development tools such as Claude, Copilot, or similar in real development workflows.
- Ability to understand and validate AI-generated output through testing, code review, and incremental rollout.
- Interest in turning AI usage into repeatable team leverage rather than only personal productivity.
- Willingness to learn new technologies and mentor, support, and guide teammates.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with in-office work required Wednesdays and Thursdays and remote flexibility for the remainder of the week.
- Monthly learning days, regular guest speakers from the energy industry, strategic offsites, and other growth and development opportunities.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Life and long-term disability benefits, flexible spending and health savings accounts.
- Accrued paid time off and paid holidays, including 10 in Ontario and 11 in British Columbia.
- RRSP retirement benefits.
- Variable compensation eligibility, including short-term and long-term incentives.
- Accessibility and accommodation support for employees and applicants.
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About Generac Power Systems
Generac Power Systems builds backup and prime power equipment—home standby and portable generators, industrial gensets, energy storage systems, inverters, and related controls—for residential, commercial, and industrial customers. It sells through dealer networks, retailers, and installers, and offers connected energy management services through brands including ecobee (acquired 2021). Founded in 1959 and headquartered in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Generac is a public company listed on the NYSE.