4 hours 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
The everything app for hourly teams with scheduling, time clocks, payroll, messaging, and HR—built for small businesses. Unstoppable teams start here. Best Time Clock 2023 - The Motley Fool Best Scheduling 2023 - Investopedia America's Best Startup Employers 2024 - Forbes Brands That Matter Winner 2024 - Fast Company Best HR & Employee App 2023, 2024, & 2025 - The Webby Awards Best employee communication tool ever! - Theresa Fouquette, Owner, Bliss Small Batch Creamery