Senior Software Engineer

Edgecom Energy; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental benefits

Competitive compensation package

Potential equity participation program

Onsite gym

Personal days for work-life balance

Job summary

A leading clean-tech software company in Toronto is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance energy management solutions. The ideal candidate will have over 4 years of backend engineering experience, particularly in Golang and Python. Responsibilities include optimizing CI/CD pipelines, conducting code reviews, and managing scalable systems. The role offers a competitive compensation package, outstanding benefits, and a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience engineering and reviewing backend systems.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Write and review user stories and technical documents.
• Conduct thorough code reviews focused on best practices.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and implement monitoring systems.
• Investigate and debug incidents across distributed systems.
• Manage scalable backend systems and infrastructure.
• Maintain and improve automation scripts and runbooks.

Skills

Golang

Python

Microservices architecture

Containerization

Kubernetes

AWS

Git

Agile development

CI/CD

DevOps best practices

Tools

Docker

CircleCI

InfluxDB

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Position: Senior Software Engineer. Company: Edgecom Energy. Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level. Employment type: Full‑time. Job function: Engineering and Information Technology.

Edgecom Energy is a purpose-driven clean-tech software company delivering cutting‑edge energy management solutions across Canada and rapidly scaling throughout North America. We empower some of the world’s largest energy users—including data centers, industrial facilities, and chemical processing plants—to reduce energy costs, cut emissions, and make measurable progress toward a sustainable future.

Our expertise spans demand response, distributed energy resource (DER) management, and advanced software tools that enable real‑time decision‑making for complex energy systems. We are a Certified B Corporation, meeting rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

As we enter an exciting new phase of growth, we’re seeking driven, innovative professionals passionate about sustainability and eager to harness technology to combat climate change. Join a dynamic team of problem‑solvers and trailblazers revolutionizing how businesses manage energy.

What We Offer

• Meaningful work with a purpose—reducing costs, emissions, and saving energy for a more sustainable future.
• Outstanding health, vision, and dental benefits.
• A competitive and comprehensive compensation package.
• A potential equity participation program to extend ownership opportunities.
• A small agile team where you’ll make a real‑life difference.
• Onsite gym at the office.
• Hybrid work.
• Personal days to promote work‑life balance and employee well‑being.

Responsibilities

• Write and review user stories, technical requirements, functional specifications, and test cases to ensure high‑quality delivery.
• Conduct thorough code reviews focused on reliability, maintainability, security, and DevOps best practices.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and environment provisioning.
• Design and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems; continually measure system health and performance.
• Investigate incidents by debugging, profiling services, and identifying performance bottlenecks across distributed systems.
• Collaborate on infrastructure architecture, deployment strategies, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud‑native workflows.
• Manage scalable backend systems with a focus on observability, resiliency, and fault tolerance.
• Maintain and improve infrastructure‑as‑code, automation scripts, and operational runbooks.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience engineering and reviewing backend systems built in Golang and Python.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across DevOps, engineering teams, and external stakeholders.
• Hands‑on experience designing, deploying, and operating microservices architectures in production.
• Solid understanding of time‑series databases (InfluxDB, QuestDB) and relational databases (PostgreSQL), including performance tuning and monitoring.
• Advanced experience with distributed caching systems such as Redis and Memcached.
• Deep experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes.
• Advanced experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, including infrastructure automation, networking, security, and managed services.
• Practical experience with managed CI/CD platforms (CircleCI, AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline) and pipeline optimization.
• Strong Git practices and experience conducting code reviews using GitHub workflows.
• Experience working within agile development and DevOps processes.
• Comfortable writing technical documentation, runbooks, and architectural notes.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple operational and development tasks in parallel.

Edgecom Energy is committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We believe that a range of perspectives and backgrounds drives innovation, strengthens our team, and enhances the quality of service we provide to our customers.

We actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We are an equal‑opportunity employer, ensuring fair chances for all regardless of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, or any other dimension of diversity.