Senior Staff Engineer

Toronto, CA

About The Job

We are hiring a Senior Staff Engineer for a fast-growing Canadian tech startup building AI-powered consumer products. This role is heavily focused on data infrastructure and platform engineering.

This is a hands-on senior IC role. You will code daily, ship features across web, mobile, and data platforms, and partner with Product, Design, Ops, and ML teams.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead end-to-end data pipeline delivery upstream acquisition, batch ETL/ELT, and real-time data flows (events, streaming, operational stores)

  • Own the data platform and mentor engineers building on it

  • Own complex features from proposal through design, implementation, and rollout

  • Set engineering standards through design docs and code reviews

  • Solve high-leverage problems around performance, scalability, and tech debt

  • Partner cross-functionally on roadmaps and trade-offs

What You Bring

  • 6 years software experience with system ownership from concept to production

  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining data pipelines batch ETL/ELT and real-time/streaming systems

  • Deep proficiency in a modern backend/full-stack ecosystem (TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Java/Kotlin, Go)
  • Demonstrates AI-native ways of working comfortable using AI tools to accelerate development, debug, generate and review code, and improve engineering workflows
  • Strength in performance, scalability, optimization (profiling, caching, data modeling, concurrency)

  • Experience with testing, CI/CD, and observability
  • Demonstrates AI-native ways of working comfortable using AI tools to accelerate development, debug, generate and review code, and improve engineering workflows
  • Clear communicator, self-directed, effective in remote environments

Nice to Have

  • Experience with data-heavy systems, search/ranking/ML integration

  • Consumer-facing app experience

  • Modern frontend frameworks (React/Vue/Angular), mobile pipelines

What’s in It for You

  • Base: $150K–$200K CAD

  • Stock options

  • Comprehensive benefits (health, dental, life, virtual care, travel)

  • Generous vacation

  • Remote-friendly, flexible hours

Remote anywhere in Canada

What You Can Expect

What You Can Expect

Tailored support for your next career move.

Access to roles aligned with your skills, experience, and career goals.

Global career opportunities across Canada, India, the USA, and the UK.

Remote, hybrid, and in-office roles across diverse industries.

A people-first approach focused on long-term professional growth.