Posted 29 months ago
Senior/Staff Software Engineer
@ hireVouch
Remote in Canada
Overview
hireVouch is hiring a Senior or Staff Software Engineer, fully remote across Canada, for a well-funded Series A fintech scale-up building an app-based and browser-accessed platform for Canadian consumers and businesses. The work covers backend and frontend systems, mentoring engineers, and work on product roadmap, technical debt, regulatory compliance and InfoSec. The role follows a synchronous remote-first schedule, starting within 3 hours of 8am ET or finishing within 3 hours of 5pm ET.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement backend and frontend systems
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance and feedback
- Expand the product roadmap and accelerate delivery
- Pay down technical debt and harden InfoSec posture
Requirements summary:
- 5+ years shipping production-grade, customer-facing software
- Expertise with TypeScript and JavaScript
- Experience designing backend and frontend systems
- Experience mentoring engineers
- Experience working in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Source type not verified · cats
- Employer posting date
- 2024-06-12
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-03
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
Summary and details written by AI from the posting; the employer’s posting is the authority.
hireVouch
Saved company profile
Historical company information from a saved The Jobs API profile (LinkedIn/Crunchbase fields). It is not live-verified; figures may have changed. Missing values remain unknown.
A referral is the greatest form of flattery.
Full company description
Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the often-employed aggressive methods typical of the recruitment industry, our focus is placed largely on referral-based networking. Getting it right really matters to us. Let us leverage our network of talent that has already been vouched for by leading professionals in the industry to help your business grow. Services Offered Contingency and Retained Search Here at hireVouch we focus on sourcing best-in-class candidates for rewarding positions in Canada and the US. We have extensive expertise in Contingency, Retained and Temporary placement, primarily within the IT sector. On-Site Search Assistance We have a trusted network of HR and search professionals who can provide on-site search services to help fulfill immediate needs as well as help train internal staff in finding the highest quality talent Company Marketing Strategy We know how competitive the job market can truly be and how important it is to have a strategy to attract talent. At hireVouch we have extensive expertise in helping companies better market themselves. We can provide the tools and knowledge that will assist you in making your business a highly attractive place to work. Developing a company marketing strategy is key to hiring the talent you need to grow.
- LinkedIn followers
- 68,412
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 7
- Reported office locations
- 215 Spadina Avenue, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7, CA
- Other recorded names
- hireVouch
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2016 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 175 |
| View page |
Senior / Staff Software Engineer
Remote - Canada
Your opportunity
Our client is a well-funded, series A, growth-oriented scale-up. They develop and distribute an app-based and browser-accessed fintech platform with a wide range of capabilities currently targeting Canadian consumers and businesses. They have identified several attractive product opportunities and are currently adding ~8 senior and staff engineers to expand and accelerate the product roadmap, pay down technical debt, anticipate and stay compliant with regulators, and harden the product and organization’s InfoSec posture.
The client’s existing product offers customers a user-friendly experience and a suite of features and incentives that reduce the friction between fiat and cryptocurrencies and between cryptocurrencies and everyday purchases. They have over 1.3M signups, 6-figures of monthly active users, and maintain a healthy treasury to support operations, invest in growth opportunities, and mitigate risks.
These roles will see you joining a research & development function of 35, 23 of whom are in software engineering (at the time of writing), on one of the 5 domain-specific engineering squads. This is a maturing organization and engineering team that has adopted specialization and instituted twice-yearly performance and compensation reviews. The tech stack is presently:
Backend: JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Feathers.js, Sequelize
Frontend: TypeScript, React/React Native, Vue.js
Infrastructure: Docker, Github CI/CD, AWS EKS
The client has high expectations of themselves and the work can be intense. They acknowledge this by offering their team members competitive cash compensation practices and a generous, differentiated suite of perks and benefits that bolsters their mission-driven employer value proposition.
The company is a synchronous, remote-first environment with a majority of its team in the Eastern Time Zone. Team members are offered the flexibility to work across Canada, and occasionally from abroad, but must start the workday within 3 hours of 8am ET OR finish the workday within 3 hours of 5pm ET.
Your know-how
You have 5+ years of experience shipping production-grade, customer-facing software
You have expertise with TypeScript/JavaScript
You have experience designing and implementing both backend and frontend systems
You have experience mentoring engineers and providing technical guidance and feedback
You have experience working in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment
It’s a bonus if
You have experience building large-scale consumer-facing systems
You are proficient in the Bitcoin and Ethereum protocols with extensive knowledge of blockchain technologies, including smart contract development, consensus mechanisms, and cryptographic security practices
You have experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Feathers.js, Sequelize, React/React Native, PostgreSQL, AWS
Journal
Only you can see this. Kept on this device, and in your account when you sign in.