Staff Software Engineer - Collaborative Web Platform
Pantheon Systems, Inc3 months ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and own the architecture of a real-time content platform, including data models, synchronization protocols, APIs, and client-side state management.
- Build backend services for collaborative editing, conflict resolution, and content delivery across distributed cloud infrastructure.
- Build frontend systems for visual real-time editing, page building, and publishing workflows.
- Own the integration layer between the editing experience and the platform, including APIs, webhooks, and the developer extension model.
- Define engineering standards for API design, testing, performance, and observability.
- Evaluate third-party services, libraries, and infrastructure using build-versus-buy tradeoffs.
- Partner with product and design on technical strategy, interaction models, and phased delivery plans.
- Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, architecture feedback, and technical documentation.
- Engage customers and partners to validate architectural assumptions and integration patterns.
Requirements
- 10+ years of overall software engineering experience with ownership across the full product lifecycle.
- Production experience building both backend systems and frontend interactive user interfaces.
- Experience with real-time or collaborative systems, event-driven architectures, or live data synchronization.
- Fluency designing and operating cloud-native services in GCP, AWS, Cloudflare, or Azure, including containerization and modern deployment pipelines.
- Strong API design expertise across REST, GraphQL, and event-driven interfaces.
- Deep frontend architecture knowledge covering component modeling, state management, rendering performance, and browser technology.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience includes visual or low-code editing interfaces, CMS architectures, developer-facing platforms or extension systems, SDKs, plugin APIs, CLI tooling, and open-source contributions.
Benefits
- Remote-forward work environment with an in-office workspace in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- Paid time off, paid sick leave, and 11 paid company holidays.
- Full medical coverage including extended health care, dental, and vision.
- Top-of-the-line equipment.
- Monthly wellness and reading allowance plus LinkedIn Learning access.
- Team and company-wide events and activities.
- Industry-competitive compensation and equity plan.
- Visa sponsorship is not available.
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About Pantheon Systems, Inc
Pantheon Systems provides a WebOps PaaS for building, hosting, and scaling Drupal, WordPress, and Next.js sites, with integrated CI/CD, governance, CDN, and security. It sells subscription plans to enterprises, agencies, and universities that manage multi-site portfolios and developer workflows in the cloud. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company powers 300,000+ websites for organizations such as Google, Princeton, Clorox, Salesloft, and the United Nations.