2 months ago
Toronto, Canada +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$237k - $306k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive technical vision and architecture across Payroll, Scheduling, Time Tracking, and HRM product domains.
- Develop and execute Homebase’s API strategy for internal velocity, external integrations, and partnerships.
- Lead decomposition of core product systems into well-bounded services using domain-driven design and SOA principles.
- Identify and resolve cross-cutting issues involving data consistency, performance, and reliability.
- Establish engineering standards and patterns while mentoring senior and staff engineers.
- Partner with Product, Data, Design, and Engineering leadership to align technical strategy with business priorities.
- Champion AI adoption, build or deploy AI-enabled engineering capabilities, and measure their impact on velocity, quality, and developer experience.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with significant depth in distributed systems and evolving legacy architectures.
- Strong background in Ruby and Rails is ideal.
- Experience defining and executing technical strategy across multiple product domains or teams.
- Deep expertise in domain-driven design, API design, SOA, and event-driven architectures.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and guiding teams through architectural change.
- Experience with payroll, workforce management, or similarly complex business domains is preferred.
- Ability to influence without authority and communicate complex technical decisions to engineers, product managers, and executives.
- Active fluency with AI tools and experience helping teams adopt AI productively.
- Ability to operate effectively in a high-velocity environment where shipping and iteration are emphasized.
Benefits
- Stock options and retirement savings plans with a 4% company match, varying by country.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with FSA options in the United States and dependent coverage in Canada.
- Flexible paid time off, company holidays, and designated focus periods.
- Access to paid AI tools with minimal restrictions.
- United States employees receive up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave after six months; Canadian employees receive maternity/parental leave EI top-up support after six months.
- Life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Work From Anywhere Month and annual meeting-free weeks.
- Meals, commuter benefits, team offsites, and Customer Days; commuter benefits are specified for the United States.
- Hybrid schedule requiring in-office work on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
- Interview process includes Talent Acquisition, hiring manager, technical, cross-functional, values and AI mindset interviews, background check, and offer stage.
Tech Stack
RubyRuby on Rails
Categories
About Homebase
Homebase builds an all-in-one software platform for small businesses with hourly teams, offering employee scheduling, time tracking, payroll, team messaging, and basic HR tools. It operates as a subscription SaaS product used by over 150,000 small businesses to manage 2M+ workers and billions of tracked hours. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.