Senior Software Engineer

Contra; Vancouver; Remote; CAD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role involves contributing to cutting-edge AI-driven user experiences and working across a modern tech stack, including TypeScript, GraphQL, and React. You'll collaborate with talented professionals in a fast-paced environment, ensuring high-quality deliverables while maintaining a focus on performance and scalability. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact in the future of work, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Home Office Budget

Company Laptop

Flexible Work Hours

Professional Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with modern AI systems and workflows.
• Strong understanding of frontend and backend technologies.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to end-to-end development in TypeScript and React.
• Participate in product development processes and code reviews.

Skills

TypeScript

GraphQL

React

AI Systems

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Relevant Certifications

Tools

Vitest

Playwright

Google BigQuery

Airbyte

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Base pay range

$170,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr

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Contra is a network of independent creatives, connecting you with the talent and tools to get work underway. Our platform offers all the necessary tools for discovering, hiring, onboarding, managing, and paying flexible talent.

Why Join Contra's Journey?

Contra is building the platform for the future of work. People, companies, and agencies are looking to adopt more flexible working styles, and we are leading the way, with a network of over 1M freelancers and 50k clients who depend on Contra to work together and collaborate, 100% commission-free. We’ve raised over $44M from top VC’s including NEA, Unusual Ventures and Cowboy Ventures.

About You:

• You understand modern AI systems, products and workflows. You have opinions and taste in these areas, and know how to build polished AI-driven user experiences that delight, not detract.
• You are an excellent, independent problem solver.
• You have high standards for craft, quality, and attention-to-detail for the work that you ship, and motivate others to raise the bar.
• You know how to articulate and balance the tradeoffs of rapid pace exploration and building performant, scalable, reliable, and quality systems.
• You have high standards for verbal and written communication and are experienced at working in a remote organization, preferring to over-communicate and collaborate synchronously when able.
• You thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Our team knows how to execute and is relentless about our velocity. You smartly use AI to increase your personal velocity, but are experienced enough an engineer on your own to navigate and keep it in check.
• You apply an ownership mentality to everything you ship, and collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to achieve success.
• You dedicate effort to staying up to date with new technologies, patterns, and AI.

In a day at Contra, you’ll probably:

• Contribute to our end-to-end TypeScript, GraphQL, React monorepo. You’ll work across the stack — including our AI stack (LLMs, embeddings, vector search, evals, etc.)
• Contribute to our Vitest/Playwright test suite.
• Participate in the RFC process, building alignment around new database and API schemas and new patterns.
• Participate in all parts of the product development process, like design critiques, code reviews, and cross-functional planning with your team.
• Work on maintaining a tidy home: eliminate technical debt, improve performance, address customer bugs, improve developer experience, etc.

Our Stack:

• Frontend: React, Relay, PandaCSS
• Data: Airbyte, dbt, Google BigQuery
• Testing: Playwright, Vitest
• AI: OpenAI, Cursor, Supermaven, CodeRabbit (for code reviews — it’s actually great!)

Total Comp:

• Home Office Budget
• We will provide you with a company laptop on your start date

Interview Process

• Intro Call with Recruiting Team (15-20 minutes)
• Technical Interview with Hiring Manager (45 minutes)
• Culture & Cross-Functional Interview (45 minutes)
• Paid Technical Assessment (3 hours) + Presentation to CTO & Co-Founder and Engineering Manager (60 minutes)
• Interview with CEO & Co-Founder (30 minutes)

Note: Contra communicates with applicants through @contra.com domains only. We never ask for money from potential employees. For the latest job postings, visit Contra Careers.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Software Development

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