Job Specifications
About us
We are a technology consulting firm providing high-impact data and automation solutions in healthcare, fintech, and insurance. Our clients range from startups to well-established enterprises. You will join a team of over 40 members distributed across Canada, working in a remote-first environment. Our clients choose us because we practice extreme ownership and deliver solutions that truly work. We move quickly, think deeply, and take pride in our partnerships.
What we’re looking for
We are seeking an exceptional problem solver who operates at the intersection of technical excellence, cloud infrastructure, and scalable system design. You will use your deep technical knowledge and strong product intuition to design and deliver robust, production-grade systems in complex, real-world environments.
As a Staff Engineer, you will take ownership of large, business-critical systems and technical initiatives. You will set technical direction, lead system design for complex projects, and promote engineering best practices across teams. You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and clients to ensure we are building the right solutions in the right way.
The ideal candidate brings strong backend and cloud infrastructure experience, excellent technical design skills, and a practical, hands-on approach to problem solving. This role requires comfort with ambiguity, the ability to question requirements, and the judgment to balance speed, quality, and long-term system health.
Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & System Ownership
Own and evolve the architecture of large, business-critical systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Lead the technical design of complex and ambiguous projects, defining clear system boundaries, tradeoffs, and implementation plans.
Set and uphold technical standards that influence work across multiple teams.
Tackle the hardest technical challenges in a project and surface risks early.
Debug and resolve complex, cross-cutting issues across services, infrastructure, and data layers.
Proactively identify systemic technical debt and lead efforts to reduce it.
Make high-quality technical decisions by balancing delivery speed, cost, reliability, and long-term impact.
Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps & Scalability
Design, deploy, and operate cloud-native systems, primarily on GCP and AWS.
Plan and implement infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support reliable, repeatable deployments.
Ensure systems are observable, operable, and resilient in production environments.
Continuously look for opportunities to simplify infrastructure and reduce operational overhead and cost.
Scalable Backend Systems & APIs
Set technical direction for backend systems by choosing the right language and architecture for the problem, with a focus on reliability, performance, and long-term ownership.
Translate business goals into clear, durable system designs, defining service boundaries and API contracts that teams can evolve with confidence.
Raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews, practical technical documentation (RFCs, runbooks), and high standards for code quality and maintainability.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Lead the design of data-intensive systems across ingestion, processing, storage, and serving, making explicit tradeoffs across scale, latency, cost, and correctness.
Select and standardize data patterns and platforms (batch/streaming, messaging, OLTP/OLAP, caching) aligned to workload characteristics.
Ensure systems are operable at scale through strong data contracts, observability, failure handling, and clear ownership.
Client Partnership & Critical Thinking
Work closely with clients to shape and refine technical solutions.
Actively question and challenge requirements to uncover the real underlying problems.
Propose alternative technical approaches when they better meet business goals or system constraints.
Balance client needs with technical realities, scalability concerns, and long-term maintainability.
Navigate complex client environments with sound judgment, keeping teams focused and delivery moving forward.
Quality, Craftsmanship & Engineering Culture
Champion engineering craftsmanship and maintain high technical standards.
Raise the quality bar through thoughtful code reviews and architectural guidance.
Look for opportunities to simplify systems and reduce unnecessary complexity.
Establish patterns and practices that prevent repeated reinvention.
Emphasize real-world reliability, testing, security, and operability over purely theoretical solutions.
Act as a role model for pragmatic, high-quality engineering judgment.
Execution, Communication & Influence
Lead large, loosely defined initiatives from design through production.
Communicate technical designs clearly through written documentation, diagrams, and proofs of concept.
Clearly communicat