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

Exciting opportunity to lead a dynamic sales team and shape the future of real estate sales in Canada.

Health benefits including medical, dental, life insurance, virtual healthcare, and travel coverage.

Remote-friendly, flexible work environment.

Competitive compensation and generous vacation time.

A culture that values continuous learning and growth.