Principal Software Engineer - Canada

Equal Opportunity Ventures; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Flexible time off

Employee stock options

Medical & dental plans

Flexible work hours

Job summary

JobGet in Vancouver, BC, Canada is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead backend architecture and delivery across products. You will partner with product leadership to drive strategic tech decisions, scale systems, and mentor teams in an agile startup setting. Experience with Go, TypeScript, Kafka, and AWS is essential.

You’ll translate long‑term goals into technical reality, drive high‑quality code, and champion AI‑assisted tooling to accelerate velocity and maintainability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with leadership in high‑impact initiatives.
• Primary experience in Go, with cross‑team work in .NET/TypeScript.
• Proven track record delivering microservices and event‑driven architectures using Kafka.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership across product and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Shape technical strategy and align roadmaps with business goals.
• Drive cross‑functional priorities with product and engineering managers.
• Lead architectural reviews for scalable, multi‑product systems.
• Mentor engineers, enforce coding standards, and promote AI‑assisted tooling.
• Oversee incident response, testing practices, and deployment pipelines.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

Kafka

AWS

CI/CD

Leadership

Tools

Apache Kafka

Job description

About JobGet

As the #1 app focused on everyday workers, JobGet is redefining the future of hiring. Founded in 2019, JobGet began as the only mobile‑first hiring platform for everyday workers. Since then, we’ve grown by joining forces with Snagajob, the largest hourly job board in the U.S., followed by Seasoned, the leading platform for restaurant hiring. Each acquisition has brought JobGet closer to the frontline, making the platform faster, smarter, and more effective.

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Principal Software Engineer - Canada
JobGet
Software Engineering
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posted on Aug 3, 2026

Who We Are

We’ve designed our values to be more than just buzzwords; they’re things we can do. We hope that our culture reflects our values by our commitment to living them every day.

• Teamwork - We make time to help colleagues across JobGet succeed.
• Excellence - We set ambitious targets, put in extraordinary effort, and persevere until we have accomplished — or exceeded — our goals.
• Innovation - We’re a team of creative, outside‑the‑box thinkers who thrive in a continuously evolving environment. To us, innovation is about questioning the status quo and always striving to do things better.

Have Unwavering grit

• Resilience - By remaining resilient and adaptable, we grow stronger as individuals and as an organization.
• Accountability - We operate with an ownership mentality where everyone feels a sense of responsibility to make us better and always act in the best interest of JobGet.
• Speed - We make decisions fast and execute them even faster. Bias for speed is one of our core strengths and a key advantage over our competitors.

Grow through curiosity & kindness

• Respect - We treat each other with mutual respect, kindness, and celebrate our differences.
• Learning - We ask questions and seek to understand by being genuinely curious & communicative.
• Culture - We believe that each of us is responsible for our culture. It requires self‑discipline and the drive to contribute to something greater than ourselves.

What You’ll Do

We are looking for an exceptional and ambitious engineer who enjoys architecting systems, working in an agile start‑up development environment, and leveraging AI to redefine engineering velocity. As an engineer on our team you will focus on backend development across all our products.

You will be the engineer others look to when the problem is hard, the path forward is unclear, or the stakes are high. As a key individual contributor, you won’t just build; you will bridge the gap between engineering and the broader business, translating long‑term goals into technical reality while modeling the engineering best practices that elevate our entire organization. As part of our tight‑knit team, you thrive in building scalable, flexible systems with an emphasis on improving maintainability.

Strategic Leadership & Alignment

• Shape Technical Strategy: Proactively partner with leadership to bridge the gap between engineering and the broader business to ensure technical strategies and roadmaps directly support and accelerate overarching business goals.
• Drive Cross‑Functional Priorities: Collaborate with product and development managers to surface trade‑offs and ensure engineering priorities are communicated persuasively across the organization.
• Navigate Complex Environments: Align impact across a multi‑product, multi‑team environment, identifying opportunities for platform consolidation and technical consistency.
• Autonomy & Decision Making: Demonstrate high resourcefulness; you are empowered to make significant technical decisions and drive projects end‑to‑end with limited oversight.

Hands‑On Execution & Technical Excellence

• High Contribution: Maintain a high bar for individual execution by writing clean, efficient, and production‑ready code.
• Rigorous Testing & Validation: Lead by example in code quality by defining testing standards and utilizing AI to generate robust test suites and edge‑case discovery that ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Proactive Problem Solving: Personally identify and execute fixes for deep‑seeded bottlenecks, architectural bugs, and performance issues that impact system stability.
• Modernise Tooling: Evaluate and integrate emerging AI‑powered tools to enhance operational efficiency and developer productivity. Maintain a high bar for execution by mastering AI‑augmented coding practices to write, refactor, and deploy code with unprecedented speed and quality.

Architectural Oversight & Quality

• System Design & Scalability: Lead architectural evaluations and design reviews to ensure systems remain flexible and scalable as the business grows.
• QA Partnership: Partner effectively with QA to define test strategies, improve automated testing coverage, and ensure a seamless handoff from development to production.
• Operational Health: Lead incident response and postmortem processes, establishing best practices to prevent recurrence of high‑severity issues.
• Champion Standards: Maintain code quality, organization, and automation across the broader engineering organization.

Mentorship & Cultural Impact

• Technical Multiplier: Elevate the engineers around you through rigorous code reviews, design feedback, and modelling mature, thoughtful engineering judgment.
• Lead Technical Discussions: Move teams to decisions, ensuring the best ideas surface regardless of where they originate.
• Foster Accountability: Champion a culture of quality, where engineers take pride in end‑to‑end ownership, technical excellence, and proficiency in leveraging AI tools.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a demonstrated track record of leading and executing technically complex, high‑impact initiatives from inception through delivery.
• Recent experience working on a small, agile team contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle in a start‑up environment.
• Primary experience in Go, comfortable working across existing .NET and TypeScript codebases.
• Experience implementing event‑driven architecture within microservices ecosystems using tools like Apache Kafka.
• Experience creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Strong understanding of object‑oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
• Strong experience with AWS platforms, including an understanding of their capabilities and limitations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Proven ability to operate across organisational lines, you are comfortable influencing without authority, building consensus among diverse teams, and driving decisions that require alignment across product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Deep software engineering fundamentals, with experience in multi‑product architectures.
• Experience working in an environment shaped by acquisitions or rapid growth, with an appreciation for the technical and cultural complexity that comes with it.
• A track record of making well‑reasoned technical decisions, you evaluate options carefully, push back on the first solution when a better one exists.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills. Able to clearly communicate to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• A bias for ownership, you take projects seriously from start to finish, hold yourself accountable for outcomes, and proactively identify and resolve risk before it becomes a problem.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a builder's mindset: you thrive when the path forward isn't defined, and you enjoy working through complexity, solving tough problems, and enabling others to move faster.

At JobGet, we’re looking for people who see themselves in our values. If you have made a measurable impact in your career and are known for your grit and curiosity, we encourage you to apply. We look forward to hearing from you.

Benefits & Rewards

• Purpose‑driven organisation
• Flexible time off
• Remote‑first
• Flexible work hours - our employees are in multiple time zones
• Medical & dental plans
• Parental leave
• Employee stock options