Senior Software Engineer

Elevate RS; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its Ledger Team to design and maintain essential systems for trading. You will collaborate with finance and product teams to deliver impactful features. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience, strong coding skills (preferably in Go), and an obsession with clean, maintainable code. This fully remote role allows for significant autonomy in achieving defined goals and improving system health.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience working on systems at scale.
• Obsession with performant, defect-free maintainable code.
• Ability to debug issues effectively.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver features/projects.
• Build scalable backend systems/components.
• Own delivery of high-visibility features/projects.

Skills

Strong coding skills, preferably in Go

Problem-solving skills

Collaborative mindset

Experience with IDLs (e.g., protobuf)

Experience with RPC frameworks (e.g., gRPC)

Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP)

Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)

Job description

Job Description

Job Role: Senior Software Engineer - Ledger Team
Placement Type: Direct Placement
Workplace Type: Remote
Location: Toronto, Ontario

Your Role

As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems and services that form the foundation and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.
The Ledger Team is responsible for building a modern ledger system, whose purpose is to maintain a complete and correct view of everything that has ever happened in every account. From a business perspective, the ledger provides a structured and organized system for recording and aggregating transactional data. It plays a crucial role in supporting financial reporting, decision-making, and compliance. From an engineering perspective, the ledger serves as the source of truth for many services.
For this role, we are seeking an experienced engineer who is obsessed with delivering defect-free solutions, has proven experience architecting and building at scale, and who is not afraid of challenging conventions or voicing their opinions. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals in cooperation with a cross-functional team.

Things You Get To Do

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders–including finance, operations, and product teams–to deliver high-impact features/projects
• Build backend systems/components with integrity, maintainability, scalability, and stability in mind
• Own the delivery of high-visibility features/projects, from design to deployment
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve the health of systems

Who You Are (Must-Haves)

• A seasoned engineer, with 5+ years experience working on systems at scale
• Obsessed with performant, defect-free maintainable code
• A strong problem solver with a proactive mindset
• A collaborator who is capable of creating alignment with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
• Comfortable working heads-down or tag-teaming problems
• Strong coding skills, preferably in Go
• Ability to debug issues or, better yet, foresee problems and avoid them entirely
• Experience with IDLs (e.g., protobuf), RPC frameworks (e.g., gRPC), cloud platforms (e.g., GCP), and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves)

• Experience in the financial services or accounting industry
• Experience with distributed systems/databases
• Experience with event driven systems and messaging brokers (e.g., Redpanda)
• Experience working remotely
• Experience working at a startup