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Staff Software Engineer, Platform

FoundVancouver, Toronto or Remote (Canada)
Remote Full-time $240K/yr - $278K/yr

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Experience Level

Senior

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, candidates should have:Extensive experience in software engineering with a focus on platform and infrastructure. Strong understanding of SLOs and SLAs. Proven ability to scale systems from small to large user bases. Experience with observability and monitoring tools. Excellent collaboration and mentoring skills.

About the job

About Found

The self-employed workforce is a vibrant and rapidly expanding community of 60 million Canadians. However, self-employment poses unique challenges such as managing taxes, accounting, bookkeeping, and business banking. Found is here to address these challenges.

At Found, we are dedicated to creating innovative tools that provide self-employed individuals with the security and peace of mind typically reserved for larger corporations. Our business banking solutions automate tax management and expense tracking, empowering small business owners to focus on their passions rather than their financial burdens.

We invite compassionate, resourceful, and driven individuals to join us in establishing a comprehensive safety net for self-employed people.

About This Role

Our engineering team plays a crucial role in transforming our product ideas into solutions utilized by tens of thousands of users weekly. We oversee the entire lifecycle from product development to ensuring robust and efficient technical operations.

The Platform team focuses on maintaining the reliability and security of our systems while delivering an exceptional experience for both users and engineers. This small yet impactful group has a wide-ranging influence across reliability, security, compliance, and developer experience, supporting an engineering organization of over 30 members.

We are in search of a Staff Software Engineer who excels at balancing rapid progress with safety, possesses a deep understanding of SLOs and SLAs, and has a proven track record of scaling systems effectively.

We highly value engineers who can drive technical vision, mentor peers, and design scalable systems to match our growth trajectory. If you have questions, please include them in your application.

Daily Responsibilities

  • Architect future iterations of our critical systems such as databases and distributed jobs while considering our scaling requirements.
  • Design and implement developer tools that enhance safety, reproducibility, and ease of deployment.
  • Champion excellence in observability and monitoring, guiding incident response to ensure swift issue resolution and a positive on-call experience.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to uphold high technical quality across our systems while addressing technical debt, upgrades, and platform enhancements.
  • Mentor engineers on designing reliable, fault-tolerant systems that can scale effectively.

About Found

Found is on a mission to empower self-employed individuals with the financial tools they need to thrive. Our innovative solutions are designed to simplify complex financial processes, allowing small business owners to focus on what they do best.

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