Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Common Room; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base compensation with equity ownership

Health insurance including medical, dental, vision

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Work from Home policy

Paid Family Leave

Job summary

A leading technology startup in Canada seeks an experienced backend engineer to design and develop core capabilities while collaborating with a passionate team. Candidates should have over 6 years of experience, proficiency in AWS and Node.js, and a drive for solving customer problems. The role also includes participation in important company initiatives and requires a commitment to simplicity and teamwork.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in backend engineering.
• Ability to operate independently and collaborate effectively.
• Experience with AWS, Postgres, and Node.js.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop core internal capabilities and infrastructure.
• Participate in company-building initiatives.
• Own and execute features and APIs.

Skills

AWS

Node.js

Postgres

TypeScript

React

API development

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Job description

About Us

Common Room is the customer intelligence platform that captures every buying signal, giving companies superpowers with AI enrichment and automation to reach the right person with the right context at the right time. Despite an explosion of buyer signals, companies are left struggling with siloed point solution vendors, bloated tech stacks, and unactionable "intent" data. Common Room brings together all the buying signals you care about in one place so you can track the entire customer journey, match signals to real people and accounts, take action and automate.

We’ve raised over $50 million from top‑tier investors including Greylock, Index, and Madrona to build the world’s first customer intelligence platform for modern B2B companies. And we’re backed by 25+ operators from the fastest‑growing companies in the world such as Figma, Stripe, Airtable, Slack, Notion, Loom, and more.

We value simplicity, passion, trust, and putting our customers first. A new member joins a team that revels in asking hard questions, collaborating gladly, and making decisions quickly.

Why we need you

Your ability to quickly learn about the product, business, and technology is your superpower. You’re driven by growth and learning, able to independently own and execute features, and build APIs that other engineers rely on to solve customer problems. You focus on ensuring Common Room’s core internal capabilities, infrastructure, and systems serve the needs of our customers and our team, often staying one step ahead of the product.

You also identify and participate in important company‑building initiatives that a fast‑growing startup needs.

You would enjoy being a member of our team if you

• Have 6+ years of experience
• Operate independently, but seek help and support when needed
• Revel in your craft and are excited by and capable of owning large backend projects
• Collaborate effectively with other experienced engineers, including application/front‑end engineers
• Make sound trade‑offs and avoid over‑indexing on trendy technology; prefer supported, stable tech
• Use customer problems as input into designing systems, creating simple, elegant solutions
• Consider observability, SLA and scalability implications while avoiding premature optimization
• Feel at home with AWS, Postgres, and Node.js
• Bring your authentic self to work and engage in candid, respectful feedback
• Build sustainably and manage your time and priorities as best suits your needs
• Enjoy the journey as much as the destination, but never lose sight of the destination
• Demonstrate pride, ownership, and accountability for your work, and expect the same from others

Our current tech stack

We use TypeScript with Node.js, TypeGraphQL for API endpoints, Apollo/Express as our web server, Postgres (hosted on RDS), and ClickHouse as our database. Front‑end is React and infrastructure is on AWS.

Our values

• Be Customer‑centric – we work backwards from customer needs and articulate clear customer value.
• Strive for Simplicity – we choose simplicity over complexity whenever possible.
• Make it Happen – we take decisive action quickly and measure impact over attempts.
• We’re In this Together – we build trust, enablement, and transparency, measuring personal success by success of customers and teammates.

Our benefits

• Competitive base compensation with equity ownership
• Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, HSA, and FSA
• We pay 100% of employee premium and 50% of premium for dependents
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Paid Company Holidays
• Work from Home policy with laptop and home office support
• Monthly Remote Stipend
• 401(k) self contribution
• Paid Family Leave
• Opportunity to join a diverse, passionate, and fun team at a pivotal time in the company’s lifecycle

Common Room provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.