Staff Software Developer, Backend (Calgary, Canada)

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced Staff Backend Software Developer with a strong interest in product delivery and support to join our engineering team and collaborate on challenges at a fast-paced startup. Customer success hinges on high-quality platform and application development. Your solid and dependable developments on our software products will have a meaningful impact on helping companies achieve fairness in the workplace.

Why this job is exciting:

• Design, develop and deploy impactful backend features across our platform.
• Own complex technical challenges, balancing speed of delivery with long-term system health and scalability
• Drive the evolution of our technical architecture, ensuring our systems are built for scale and future innovation.
• Collaborate with software developers, product managers, and designers to design, develop, and maintain mid to large features and services to deliver exceptional user experiences - both internally and externally.
• Mentor junior through senior team members, share your expertise, and advocate and lead technical initiatives that drive our strategic goals.
• Build and improve software that directly helps organizations achieve workplace equity

Basic Requirements:

• Software Development Experience: 8+ years of experience building reliable, performant, and maintainable enterprise SaaS applications
• Programming Proficiency: Strong backend development skills in Go and Python, utilizing gRPC and Protobuf.
• Cloud Architecture: Extensive experience designing and architecting applications on cloud platforms, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure (we use GCP).
• AI/ML: Comfortable working with and integrating AI services into user-facing applications. Advocate of AI usage to aid development.
• Data Management: Strong experience with data model and schema design using technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and Cloud PubSub.
• API Development: Thorough knowledge of API architecture and best practices
• System Scalability: Experience with optimizing backend architectures for resource efficiency, scalability, and maintainability.
• Process Leadership: Adept at supporting and optimizing the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring teams effectively use tools and processes to enhance productivity and quality.
• Communication Skills: Effective communication capabilities for interacting with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Team Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams in a collaborative environment.

Bonus points:

• Proven history integrating with third-party systems and external platforms
• Experience integrating AI services into user-facing applications

About you:

• You assume positive intent, are humble and eager, expect the best from yourself, value partnership over perfection, and provide grace and understanding in stressful situations.
• You value a remote work environment and know that it requires greater intentionality on your part to build and maintain strong working relationships.
• You currently reside within commuting distance of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Relocation is not currently offered.
  • Kindly note, you must also be eligible to work in Canada, as we are NOT able to provide visa support or assistance at this time.

• Check out our Employee Experience page for more information on our Mission & Values, Work-Life Balance, Pay Transparency, Diversity, Culture, and Benefits. 
• 💰 Competitive Compensation. For this role our base salary is targeted at $160-185k CAD. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience and expertise.
• 🏆 Syndio Equity. So you can share in Syndio’s success.
• 🏝 20 days annually. We encourage our team to recharge when they need to, plus paid sick & safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave. 
• 🏦 Pension Contribution
• 📍 Remote-First (within commuting distance of Calgary) #LI-Remote 

Role progression:

• First month: We'll get to know each other! You’ll understand the user problems and priorities and see how our platform can support them. You'll set up and service your development environment and be able to run the entire app and critical workflows locally. Not only that, but you'll also start handling tickets, completing research, and implementing small feature requests.
  
• Second month: You'll deepen your understanding of user pain points and start to form an opinion on necessary improvements in the codebase. Share these insights with the Software Development Manager. Expect an increasing workload, and start providing more input on building complex features.
  
• Third month: You’ll be fully ramped up and working at full capacity! You'll share your opinions, mentor other team members, and independently design, execute, and break down tasks for yourself and other engineers. Now's the time to start proposing technical investments and improvements. Time to innovate!