Staff Software Engineer — Lead Scalable, AI‑Driven Backend

Goodfood Market Corp.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading meal solutions brand in Canada is seeking a Staff Software Developer to play a vital role in building their e-commerce platform. You will provide leadership to development teams, mentor developers, and drive the implementation of scalable solutions. Ideal candidates have over 10 years of experience in software engineering, with strong skills in PHP and a passion for continuous improvement in a mission-driven environment. The role is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Benefits

Annual Bonus Program

Competitive Group Insurance

Personal Days

Group Retirement Savings

Annual Fitness Credit

Employee Goodfood credits

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 3+ years in a Staff or Principal Engineer role.
• Expertise in scalable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to development teams.
• Drive implementation of scalable software solutions.
• Mentor developers and promote technical excellence.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Back-end development (PHP)

API design (GraphQL, RESTful)

DevOps practices

Large-scale web technologies

Team collaboration

Education

University degree in computer science or related field

Tools

PHP MVC framework (Laravel preferred)

Node.js

Gitflow workflow

CI/CD pipelines

AWS & GCP

Job description

A leading meal solutions brand in Canada is seeking a Staff Software Developer to play a vital role in building their e-commerce platform. You will provide leadership to development teams, mentor developers, and drive the implementation of scalable solutions. Ideal candidates have over 10 years of experience in software engineering, with strong skills in PHP and a passion for continuous improvement in a mission-driven environment. The role is based in Toronto, Ontario.