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Senior Staff Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 6+ years software experience with system ownership from concept to production
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining data pipelines — batch ETL/ELT and real-time/streaming systems
  • Deep proficiency in a modern backend/full-stack ecosystem (TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Java/Kotlin, Go)
  • Strength in performance, scalability, optimization (profiling, caching, data modeling, concurrency)

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end data pipeline delivery — upstream acquisition, batch ETL/ELT, and real-time data flows (events, streaming, operational stores)
  • Own the data platform and mentor engineers building on it
  • Own complex features from proposal through design, implementation, and rollout
  • Set engineering standards through design docs and code reviews

About the company

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Hour Consulting

Human Resources, Staffing & Recruiting

We believe together with our clients, we can make a difference for communities by providing services in the communities we want to see the change in through HouR services which include talent search, human resource and career development services.Find out how.

Company details

Company typeSmall startup
IndustryHuman Resources, Staffing & Recruiting
Company size2 - 10

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Job description

We are hiring a Senior Staff Engineer for a fast-growing Canadian tech startup building AI-powered consumer products. This role is heavily focused on data infrastructure and platform engineering.

This is a hands-on senior IC role. You will code daily, ship features across web, mobile, and data platforms, and partner with Product, Design, Ops, and ML teams.

What You'll Do

  • Lead end-to-end data pipeline delivery — upstream acquisition, batch ETL/ELT, and real-time data flows (events, streaming, operational stores)

  • Own the data platform and mentor engineers building on it

  • Own complex features from proposal through design, implementation, and rollout

  • Set engineering standards through design docs and code reviews

  • Solve high-leverage problems around performance, scalability, and tech debt

  • Partner cross-functionally on roadmaps and trade-offs

What You Bring

  • 6+ years software experience with system ownership from concept to production

  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining data pipelines — batch ETL/ELT and real-time/streaming systems

  • Deep proficiency in a modern backend/full-stack ecosystem (TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Java/Kotlin, Go)

  • Strength in performance, scalability, optimization (profiling, caching, data modeling, concurrency)

  • Experience with testing, CI/CD, and observability

  • Demonstrates AI-native ways of working — comfortable using AI tools to accelerate development, debug, generate and review code, and improve engineering workflows

  • Clear communicator, self-directed, effective in remote environments

Nice to Have

  • Experience with data-heavy systems, search/ranking/ML integration

  • Consumer-facing app experience

  • Modern frontend frameworks (React/Vue/Angular), mobile pipelines

What's in It for You

  • Base: $150K–$200K CAD

  • Stock options

  • Comprehensive benefits (health, dental, life, virtual care, travel)

  • Generous vacation

  • Remote-friendly, flexible hours

Remote anywhere in Canada

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