Staff Engineer

Toronto, ON

What your day-to-day will look like:

You will be on the front-lines of both new product initiatives as well as iterations on our core platform
You will take the lead on highly visible technical features, help others on the team with complex problems, and work closely with the product team and designers
Be involved in product definition, design/development, QA and deployment
Work in an agile environment with bi-weekly sprint plans
You’ll be involved in projects of varying scope and complexity:
- Sign-up flow
- Credit models
- Internal tools for sales and operations
- Systems for sending and receiving payments
- Accounting systems
- Data-visualization and business intelligence products, both internal and customer-facing
- Systems for onboarding customers
- Integrations with a great many data sources

You will thrive if you:

Have experience in a modern Javascript framework
Have a passion for effective collaboration within cross-functional teams, with a history of building strong relationships with Product and Design
Are comfortable with the ambiguity of an early-stage company. This includes being able to transform product sketches into working technology, as well as working in an environment with a very short technical backlog
Are Interested in Clearbanc’s core domain - finance, technology, eCommerce and entrepreneur market - experience as an entrepreneur is a big plus
Strive to push forward our tech stack and are an advocate for best practices
Take ownership of personal growth and have a habit of continuous self-development
Have a strong sense of accountability for the success of one’s product
Are excited to help identify new technologies and approaches to problems

Technical Requirements:

A Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar field
5+ years of experience building web applications with technologies like (but not limited to): TypeScript, Vue and Node
Proven track record of scaling web applications on top of large, distributed systems with technologies like (but not limited to): RabbitMQ, Kubernetes and PostgreSQL
The technologies of the web (HTTP, JSON APIs, REST, HTML)
SQL database programming and performance
*NIX environments, and Operating system details (including processes, threads and file systems)
Data structures and algorithms
Enterprise systems and asynchronous architectures
Dynamic languages like Ruby or Python
Writing maintainable systems