Senior Software Engineer, Backend

GlossGenius; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance its backend services that empower thousands of small business owners. In this role, you will manage projects end-to-end, ensuring high-quality code and architecture that supports scalability and reliability. You will collaborate with diverse teams to drive impactful technology initiatives, while also mentoring junior engineers. This position offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, contributing to a platform that processes millions of transactions and supports a vibrant community of entrepreneurs. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to fostering growth and success for its clients.

Benefits

Flexible PTO

Health & Dental Insurance

Fully-paid Parental Leave

Professional Development Stipend

Home Office Support

Team Bonding Opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on backend services.
• Experience leading end-to-end product development and technology initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own projects from design to implementation, ensuring reliability and security.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on product initiatives and roadmap.

Skills

Software Engineering

Project Management

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Kotlin

Postgres

React-native

Job description

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more.

Over 80,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend you will focus on contributing to our backend services that power our suite of products. Our backend engineers write and maintain our APIs, build the communication between our systems, handle data modeling, deal with events, and ensure we are capturing what is needed for our services to continue scaling as we scale to support hundreds of thousands of professionals booking millions of appointments and processing millions of payment transactions.

GlossGenius has grown significantly, supporting tens of thousands of customers and seeing billions of transaction volumes on our platforms. As our customers continue to grow their businesses, we want to enable them to be more successful.

This role can be based remotely in or near the Greater Toronto Area.

What You’ll Do

• Own projects end to end, from design to implementation, managing complexity and working with stakeholders to think through areas such as business impact, reliability, operability, and security.
• Collaborate with product managers, product design, or other cross-functional stakeholders on roadmap initiatives, product ideation, and prioritization. Break down epics and projects to consumable size for the team and continuous deployment.
• Produce high-quality code that’s easily testable, readable, and accounts for edge cases and errors.
• Architect tools, services, and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative autonomous development and future scaling.
• Uphold best practices and high standards for engineering and product quality in addition to mentoring newer team members to do the same.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• You have experience leading and owning end-to-end product development and impactful technology initiatives for organizations; you’re able to break down work into manageable tasks for a team and partner with operational teams to roll out changes that affect their workflow
• You have experience working in a collaborative environment involving different functions, stakeholders, and subject matter experts
• You have a desire to work in a fast paced environment, a bias for action, a passion for self-improvement, and helping to elevate and mentor those around you

What We Work With

We are open to candidates who have worked in different languages but are open to learn.

• Ruby (Rails, Sidekiq), Kotlin (micronaut, jooq), GRPC, Protobuf, and Postgres for backend
• React-native for mobile
• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums covered by GG
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Home office support
• Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

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If a resume or applicant is submitted to GlossGenius by a third party without a signed search agreement in place, it will become the property of GlossGenius and no fee will be paid, irrespective of whether the candidate is hired.

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