Staff Engineer

GuruLink • Full-time • Remote (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) • 1d ago

Location: REMOTE / Toronto, Ontario
This job allows you to work remotely.

We are seeking a Staff Engineers who can bring deep technical expertise and set high standards for code quality and architecture. This person collaborates with others to solve problems at all levels of complexity and will be relied on to tackle the hardest technical challenges.

Focus Areas

Ownership:
- Takes ownership of technical direction for a product area or system domain.
- Proactively drives architectural improvements. Sets technical standards and influences adoption across teams.
- Helps resolve and unblock complex technical challenges across the teams.
- Identifies and defines solutions for the most impactful technical problems facing the organization, often before they are widely recognized.

Product & Customer:
- Deeply understands customer pain points and how our product solves those problems.
- Partners with product and engineering leadership to share the long-term technical and product roadmap.
- Guides non-technical stakeholders toward technically sound solutions. Translates complex systems into clear tradeoffs.

Technical Proficiency
- Architect and leads implementation of systems that scale with our data and customers.
- Identifies and leads key initiatives to improve reliability, observability, and performance.
- Trusted reviewer and advisor for architecture, design, and implementation across multiple teams
- Ensures web security best practices are followed to safeguard user data and defend against common vulnerabilities such as XSS, CSRF, and SQL injection.
- Excels at managing complexity and consistently simplifying the systems.

Operations & Communication:
- Ensures our systems and processes support safe, rapid iteration and robust uptime.Leads engineering standards and communicates complex technical topics clearly to engineers.
- Creates technical documentation, guidelines, and reusable patterns for others to follow.Leadership
- Acts as a technical multiplier by mentoring engineers, creating opportunities for all, and elevates the technical bar of the entire organization.
- Drives cross-functional collaboration and alignment between engineering and product.

Must Have Skills:

Key Required Skills:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong experience with Java and Spring Boot (or equivalent frameworks)
- Familiarity with Google Cloud (GCP) or other major cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
- Experience with Vue.js or comparable frontend frameworks like React, Angular, or Svelte
- Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases
- Experience working with microservices and distributed systems
- Excellent collaboration and problem-solving skills
- A deep sense of curiosity and eagerness to learn, question, and continuously improve