Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Join Shakepay to build financial systems that Canadians trust with their money, impacting millions of users through product and platform development.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-impact problems from idea to production, collaborating closely with Product and Design.
• Design, build, and evolve production systems with a focus on reliability, correctness, and maintainability.
• Share ownership of systems, including on-call responsibilities and incident response.
• Contribute to technical and product decisions and help improve team standards, tooling, and processes.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ownership of production systems and comfort making decisions with real consequences.
• Strong product and customer judgment, with a curiosity for what is being built and why.
• Proven experience owning features or systems in production, including reliability and on-call responsibility.
• Comfort working through ambiguity and making thoughtful trade-offs with incomplete information.
• Active use of AI tools in your daily workflow to accelerate development, debugging, and learning.
• Comfort reviewing AI-generated PRs with skepticism.

Technical Experience

• Backend development using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience with relational databases such as Postgres.
• Operating production systems with observability and monitoring (e.g., Datadog).
• Experience in containerized or cloud-based environments.

Nice-to-Haves

• Mobile development with React Native.
• Experience building financial, payments, or crypto-related systems.
• Experience in high-growth or fast-moving product environments.