Senior Full-Stack Engineer

BuildOps; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic software firm in Toronto is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to build and enhance its innovative platform. This role involves maintaining backend services and frontend components using React.js, writing reusable code, and collaborating with teams. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience, strong skills in JavaScript and Node.js, and the ability to mentor others. The position offers a hybrid work schedule and competitive compensation.

Benefits

Negotiable base salary

Annual bonus

Hybrid work schedule

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in an engineering role in a SaaS environment.
• Strong experience with modern JavaScript and clean, reusable code.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and contribute to technology decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend and frontend platforms.
• Develop and improve APIs with high-quality documentation.
• Collaborate with QA team to ensure quality software delivery.

Skills

JavaScript/ECMAScript

React.js

Node.js

GraphQL

Technical writing

Debugging

Unit testing

Performance monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Material-UI

CI/CD environments

Python

Jest

Job description

At BuildOps, we’re building a groundbreaking software solution, purpose-built to support today’s commercial contractor. From helping our customers to manage their service all the way to project management, we’re breaking the mold and building a team that invests in our mission statement. We love driven, self-motivated folks that thrive in fast-paced environments. Could you be our next hire?

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, your primary focus will be to help continue to build and enhance our industry-leading platform. We are looking for a motivated, self-starter who can work in a distributed team environment. The day-to-day responsibilities are broad, and you will ultimately be responsible for shipping high-quality software that powers the commercial contracting industry.

What You'll Do:

• Build and maintain our backend platform with real-time, event-driven systems, services, and features
• Build and maintain our frontend platform using React framework
• Write quality code with high test coverage and documentation
• Develop, support, and improve our GraphQL and REST APIs
• Promote, teach, and enforce our documentation standards
• Propose recommendations, build prototypes, and provide feedback
• Work in tandem with the QA engineering team to ship quality and high-precision software
• Co-own the short and long-term technical vision of your squad with your teammates
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers within your team and others
• Help improve the technical quality of our work through regular technical design, code reviews and automated testing
• Share your technical knowledge and expertise
• Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers, customers, partners, and other leaders

What We Look For:

• 5+ years of experience in an engineering role, ideally in a fast-paced SaaS environment (designing APIs, integrations, platforms, and tools used by other engineers)
• Write modern JavaScript/ECMAScript code that is clean, well-tested, and reusable
• Strong experience working with React.js to develop and test applications/components that work optimistically in a production environment
• Strong experience working with Node.js and GraphQL
• Prior knowledge or ability to quickly learn Material-UI, CI/CD environments, and Python for back-end development preferred
• Familiarity with Jest, unit testing, debugging, profiling, performance monitoring
• As an individual contributor, you are a role model for junior engineers and will help shape your squad’s technology decisions while contributing alongside them
• Strong communication and technical writing skills
• S., M.S. or PhD from a top university in computer science, engineering or related fields
• Ability to work a hybrid schedule - Monday/Friday WFH, Tuesday - Thursday, in office

Compensation:

• Negotiable base salary + annual bonus