About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Engineer I - Platform Enablement based in United States.
This role sits on a platform and technical enablement team responsible for critical systems used across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve cross-functional platform systems covering approval workflows, permissions, authentication, and notifications, with strong attention to architecture, data integrity, scalability, and backward compatibility.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and subject-matter experts across teams that consume shared platform services to develop elegant, reliable solutions to customer and business problems.
- Lead complex and ambiguous initiatives by breaking them into actionable technical tasks and developing migration strategies that minimize disruption to dependent systems.
- Develop performant, scalable, and secure backend applications and APIs using Ruby on Rails.
- Design, maintain, and optimize data models and SQL queries, primarily using PostgreSQL.
- Participate actively in code reviews, including reviewing changes from other teams that affect platform-owned systems.
- Mentor fellow engineers, share technical knowledge, and contribute to raising engineering quality and standards.
- Continuously improve engineering tools, development processes, and technical best practices.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, investigate production incidents, and collaborate with teammates to restore services quickly and reliably.
- Balance roadmap delivery with the broader responsibility of enabling and unblocking teams that depend on shared infrastructure.
Requirements
- Strong experience as a full-stack software engineer building production web applications and APIs, ideally with Ruby on Rails.
- Demonstrated architectural judgment and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs, choose appropriate abstractions, and understand the risks associated with modifying shared infrastructure.
- A strong ownership mindset, with the ability to work independently, solve problems proactively, and drive ambiguous initiatives forward with limited oversight.
- Previous experience working on platform, infrastructure, or technical enablement teams where internal or external product teams consume the systems you build.
- Experience balancing platform roadmap priorities with the needs of dependent engineering teams is highly valuable.
- Familiarity with approval workflows, role-based access control (RBAC), identity and authentication systems, Auth0, or session management within a multi-tenant SaaS environment is a plus.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to align technical architecture and implementation decisions with broader business goals.
- Comfortable working in two-week Agile/Scrum-style development cycles.
- Strong SQL skills, including the ability to write, analyze, and optimize queries; PostgreSQL experience is preferred.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code and an interest in developing AI-enabled agents or MCP servers.
- Strong customer focus, attention to detail, and commitment to producing high-quality software.
- Experience with technologies such as Ruby on Rails, StimulusJS, Redis, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes is valuable.
Conditions
- Competitive base salary for Canada of CA$156,500–CA$215,000, depending on geographic zone and other compensation factors.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Remote work from anywhere in Canada or the United States.
- Health and dental benefits.
- Up to $1,500 USD / $2,025 CAD toward home IT setup.
- Up to 2% matching RRSP / 401(k) contributions.
- Learning and professional development opportunities.
- Up to $50 USD / $67.50 CAD toward internet or cell phone services.
- Opportunity to work on high-impact platform infrastructure with broad organizational reach.
- Collaborative, inclusive, and harassment- and discrimination-free workplace.