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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
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Lead end-to-end data pipeline delivery upstream acquisition, batch ETL/ELT, and real-time data flows (events, streaming, operational stores)
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Own the data platform and mentor engineers building on it
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Own complex features from proposal through design, implementation, and rollout
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Set engineering standards through design docs and code reviews
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Solve high-leverage problems around performance, scalability, and tech debt
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Partner cross-functionally on roadmaps and trade-offs
What You Bring
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6 years software experience with system ownership from concept to production
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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
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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
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Clear communicator, self-directed, effective in remote environments
Nice to Have
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Experience with data-heavy systems, search/ranking/ML integration
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Consumer-facing app experience
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Modern frontend frameworks (React/Vue/Angular), mobile pipelines
What’s in It for You
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Base: $150K–$200K CAD
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Stock options
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Comprehensive benefits (health, dental, life, virtual care, travel)
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Generous vacation
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Remote-friendly, flexible hours
Remote anywhere in Canada
