Lead Engineer

Edjuster; Kenora; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative start-up is seeking a Lead Engineer to spearhead the evolution of their SaaS product from prototype to enterprise level. This role offers the chance to work closely with the founding team, tackling complex challenges and building software tools that can transform organizations. You’ll be at the forefront of product development, translating business requirements into actionable features while managing a distributed team. Join a progressive work environment that values your contributions and offers unlimited vacation, performance-based bonuses, and a supportive community. If you’re passionate about technology and ready to make an impact, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Unlimited vacation policy

Performance-based bonuses

Generous parental leave policies

Community of talented individuals

Free snacks

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in full-stack development and SaaS product growth.
• Expertise in architecting and deploying large-scale web applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the SaaS platform to support product growth.
• Collaborate with the team to ensure seamless product development.

Skills

Full-stack development

Agile methodologies

Test-driven development (TDD)

Problem-solving

Tools

Rails

Angular

Postgres

AWS

Docker

Job description

THE ROLE:
Doable is in search of a Lead Engineer to partner with our founding team members and help lead the charge of evolving our start-up and SaaS product from prototype through beta testing, into the innovative enterprise level SaaS tool we believe has the power to change entire organizations and reshape the future of the workplace.

WHO YOU ARE:
You’re an expert level software engineer, that believes in rolling your sleeves up and taking complex challenges head on. You understand front and back-end development best practices. You know how to keep your code clean and your work sessions down and dirty. You have a passion for building software tools that could change the way business valuate a great idea and help organizations leverage what matters most, their people.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:
As the Lead Engineer, you’ll build and scale our SaaS platform to support the growth of the product. You’ll translate customer business requirements into product evolution.

• Collaborate with the team to ensure a seamless product development process
• Write quality code both front and backend to deliver features based on the product roadmap
• Determine the languages, packages, and tools for development
• Work in a manner that benefits CI/CD based development
• Contract freelance development support as needed
• Manage distributed team of engineers as needed

WHAT YOU’VE DONE:
You have a strong background in developing web applications from the ground up and rapidly iterating on MVPs to mature them into production ready applications. You have experience working on scaling up applications to sustain and encourage traffic growth.

• 5+ years full-stack development experience
• Successfully navigated the growth of SaaS products, preferably in B2B environments
• Experience architecting, building and deploying large scale web applications is key
• Strong proficiency required in Rails (or similar backend framework), Angular (or similar front end framework), and Postgres
• An understanding of TDD and Agile
• Experience with DevOps preferred (AWS, docker, etc.)

WHAT ELSE:
With great work, comes great reward. In addition to curating a community of talented and passionate individuals, we’re committed to creating a progressive work environment: we are proud founding members of PledgePL, an organization dedicated to creating a new standard of generous parental leave policies in the creative community. We also take pride in our unlimited vacation policy, performance-based bonuses, and the fact that our fridge always has enough string cheese.