12 hours ago
Calgary, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build and ship integration applications hosted inside third-party HRIS, enterprise service management, and other business platforms.
- Own the lifecycle of platform apps, including SDKs, app frameworks, tenancy and installation models, marketplace certification, versioning, and upgrades.
- Build internal tooling and agentic projects with guardrails, verification, and reliable development workflows.
- Design and build APIs for third-party systems and external developers, including versioning, backward compatibility, rate limiting, pagination, idempotency, webhooks, and error semantics.
- Own API developer experience through documentation, examples, SDKs, and sandbox paths.
- Support identity and authentication services and apply expertise in OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, token exchange, service accounts, and tenant-scoped access.
- Work across team boundaries, prototype unfamiliar technologies, and establish standards for testing, API design, security review, and agentic workflows.
- Gather requirements from senior leaders, create technical plans, make decisions independently, and communicate technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Staff-level, high-output individual contributor who raises the output of surrounding teams.
- Deep experience with complex distributed, service-based systems, including failure modes, data consistency, and latency across service boundaries.
- Strong experience with several of Python, Go, Node/JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Postgres, NoSQL stores such as Firebase, and Redis.
- Experience building against third-party platforms and handling quirky APIs, undocumented behavior, certification processes, and breaking partner changes.
- Experience designing APIs used by developers outside the company and supporting external integrators.
- Fluency in authentication and authorization, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, token lifecycles, and multi-tenant authorization models.
- Hands-on end-to-end and integration testing experience for service-based architectures, including an e2e framework such as Playwright or Cypress.
- Strong agentic development practice involving coding agents, test loops, CI/CD gates, spec-to-code workflows, and reliability harnesses.
- High autonomy, cross-team collaboration, and ability to translate technical constraints into business language.
- Preferred qualifications include product management instincts, enterprise marketplace or app-store publishing experience, Auth0 or comparable identity-provider experience, hands-on AI systems experience, work in correctness-critical domains, and partner- or developer-facing experience.
Benefits
- Targeted salary of $180,000 -$200,000 CAD per year, plus equity.
- 20 days annually, paid sick and safe time, compassion leave, and paid parental leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with Syndio paying 90% of employee premiums and 50% for dependents.
- Additional private medical coverage and an RSSP plan.
- Remote-first work within commuting distance of Calgary.
- Interview process includes Talent Team and Hiring Manager interviews, a take-home assignment, team video interviews, and executive interviews.
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About Syndio
Syndio builds a pay governance and compensation intelligence platform for HR, compensation, and finance teams at large enterprises. Its SaaS tools provide pay equity analysis, transparency reporting, and AI-driven pay recommendations embedded in workflows. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Seattle, the privately held company reports that over 350 companies use its products to guide decisions for more than 10 million employees across 100 countries.