Senior Full-Stack Developer

family-innovation-corp; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company in Canada is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Developer to lead the design and delivery of their innovative platform. This role involves managing a team, ensuring scalable code quality, and collaborating with various teams to execute product roadmaps. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of development experience, significant leadership, and a deep understanding of modern practices, ensuring rapid deployment and high-quality user-facing products. Candidates must be authorized to work in Brazil and be comfortable working in a contract capacity for a Canadian company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive software development experience, with 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Proven track record of leading platform or product development in SaaS environments.
• Deep knowledge of modern development practices like CI/CD and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of the software platform.
• Ensure code quality, rapid feature deployment, and integration with commercial teams.
• Communicate product vision and objectives clearly to all team members.

Skills

Software development experience

Leadership in product development

Cloud platforms expertise

Project management tools proficiency

Strong people leadership

Tools

ClickUp

Jira

Job description

About the job Senior Full-Stack Developer

About Scrawlr

Scrawlr is a company building a software platform and series of products dedicated to enabling alternative forms of communication layered on existing internet content, together with delivering superior monetization flexibility and content ownership for content generators. We have recently completed our internal beta and are preparing for our external beta. We are looking forward to bringing on additional like-minded individuals to assist in product launch. The founder, board of directors, and lead investors in Scrawlr have a strong background in a variety of successful, transformational startups, and we are building our platform alongside a number of other startups within a successful ecosystem.

Why you should work here

We are working on a transformational project that we believe will have a global impact, and we expect our team members to work on solving complex, unique technical problems on a daily basis. Front-end team members are given a high degree of product ownership and the latitude to propose and implement approaches that can be divergent from all standard or existing solutions.

Scrawlr is committed to maintaining an environment in which all ideas are taken seriously and great ideas are adopted, allowing dedicated employees to effect change and to dictate their progression within the organization.

Summary
We are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Developer to lead the design, development, and delivery of our platform. This role will ensure scalability, code quality, rapid feature deployment, and strong integration with our commercial and research teams. You would work closely with the commercial team, who sets the product roadmap, this role is responsible for layering in technical constraints, risks, and opportunities presenting clear solution options that enable collaborative decision-making. You will oversee a growing team of developers, set technical standards, and foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and excellence.

Role Overview

• Product Outcomes
  Ensure products meet all required functionality per Commercial and
• Product Team specifications.
• Deliver quality consistent with public, user-facing applications.
• Balance development tempo for rapid feature delivery with incremental improvement.
• Ensure code is recyclable across platform products.

Commercial & Cross-Business Integration

• Translate the commercial roadmap into actionable development plans by applying technical constraints and feasibility analysis.
• Present multiple technical approaches and trade-offs for discussion, ensuring clarity in options and impacts.
• Partner with adjacent business units developing complementary solutions, ensuring: consistent, reliable timelines are maintained across all teams.
• Clear, standardized reporting provides visibility of progress, huddles, and delivery expectations.
• Drive strong documentation standards across specifications, architecture, and developed code (JSDoc or equivalent).
• Integration points are well-documented, tested, and validated before handoff.
• Keep Commercial Staff informed on all required deliverables and timing.

Internal Team

• Communicate product vision and weekly objectives clearly to all team members.
  Provide regular reports, and performance feedback tied to agreed outcomes.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of progressive software development experience, with 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Proven track record of leading platform or product development in SaaS, marketplace, or multi-tenant platforms.
• Demonstrated success delivering scalable, high-quality, user-facing products in fast-paced, startup or scale-up environments.
• Strong background in establishing technical planning, QA, and documentation processes.
• Deep knowledge of modern development practices (CI/CD, automated testing, version control, modular/component-based design).
• Expertise in scalable system architecture, cloud platforms, and code reusability across multiple products.
• Proficiency with project management tools (ClickUp, Jira, or similar), ensuring clear timelines, reporting, and prioritization.
• Ability to translate technical complexity into clear options, risks, and trade-offs for commercial, product, and leadership teams.

Strong people leadership: hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and feedback, leading with humility and collaboration.

Position Type

• Nature: Permanent, full-time
• Start Date: Immediately

Please note: Candidates must be currently authorized to work in Brazil. Candidates will be working as contractors for a company based in Canada.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.