About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! Senior Staff Backend Engineer About the Team We build enterprise software that helps organizations optimize sales performance, enabling go-to-market agility. Our engineering organization includes multiple product application teams responsible for delivering core customer-facing capabilities. We are seeking a Senior Staff Backend Engineer to join our application teams and help set technical direction across multiple domains within engineering. You'll work alongside staff, senior, and early-career engineers, and partner closely with engineering leadership to define, evolve, and scale the systems that power enterprise-grade product workflows. This is an opportunity to own complex, multi-domain technical problems and shape product direction beyond a single team. We are low on meetings, high on accountability. Most of the teams are in the EST time zone, but we have a few located in AST, PST, and Central as well. What you'll be doing You will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our application stack across multiple domains. You will lead development efforts for our most complex initiatives, the kind that span two or more teams or product areas, and serve as a technical benchmark for system design, code quality, and long-term maintainability. You'll operate at the intersection of data modelling, business logic, and enterprise-scale reliability, and your work will often set standards that neighboring teams adopt. This remains a hands-on
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About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the Team Engineers on this team construct our rules-based calculating engine for processing sales commissions. This might sound simple if you have never been exposed to sales comp plans, it is not! We are low on meetings, high on accountability. Most of the team are in EST time zone but we have a few located in PST and Central as well. We are far from maintenance / progressive evolution in many areas, there is a lot of room to make a big impact in the overall design. What you’ll be doing Reporting to the Manager of Data Platform, you will play a critical role in the evolution of our Spark based data platform. You'll lead development efforts for our complex, data-rich platform features while being an example to the team of code quality and thoughtful software design. You will be working on the most challenging code at Forma. As a Staff Engineer, you are expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and trust. This includes proactively identifying architectural risks, surfacing edge cases or constraints others may not see, and advocating for improvements that strengthen the long-term integrity of the system. We value engineers who bring forward thoughtful perspectives - even when they challenge assumptions - and who help the team see around corners. You will: Design and evolve backend services that power product workflows. Architect data models representing hierarchical & graph structures, relationships, and large-scale enterprise datasets. Build
$175K – $225K/yr
About Clutch Clutch is Canada's largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car-buying experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee. Named one of Canada's Top Growing Companies two years in a row and awarded a spot on LinkedIn's Top Canadian Startups list, we're looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team. Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017. Clutch is backed by world-class investors including Canaan, BrandProject, Real Ventures, D1 Capital, and Upper90. To learn more, visit clutch.ca Technology Full TypeScript stack for front- and back-end, with some legacy JavaScript Front-end: ReactJS app with functional components and context API Back-end: ExpressJS with PostgreSQL database and Sequelize ORM Microservices architecture using Docker, Terraform, AWS ECS, and other AWS services Interservice communication via RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka About the role Clutch is seeking a Team Lead, Software Engineering to lead a team of engineers building and scaling our platform. This is a player-coach role: you'll split your time roughly evenly between hands-on engineering and team leadership, mentoring engineers, owning team delivery, and partnering with product to ship work that moves the business forward. You'll partner closely with other engineering leaders on technical direction and cross-team initiatives while owning the health, growth, and execution of your team. What you'll do Lead a team of 3–5 engineers, owning their growth, performance, career development, and day-to-day delivery Stay hands-on, contributing roughly half your time to code, architecture, and technical design across the stack Partner with Product, Design, and Data to translate business priorities into a clear roadmap and well-scoped engineering work Drive execution and de
From C$139.4K/yr
About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . We are looking for inquisitive, well-rounded Android engineers to join our product Engineering teams. Working closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers, you’ll play an important role in enabling the newest technologies and experiences. You will build robust frameworks & features. You will empower both developers and Pinners alike. You’ll have the opportunity to find creative solutions to thought-provoking problems. Even better, because we covet the kind of courageous thinking that’s required in order for big bets and smart risks to pay off, you’ll be invited to create and drive new initiatives, seeing them from inception through to technical design, implementation, and release. What you’ll do: Build out Pinner-facing frontend features in Android to power the future of inspiration on Pinterest Contribute to and lead each
From C$1.5K/yr
Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Robinhood Wallet team’s mission is to democratize access to financial services worldwide by leveraging DeFi protocols and Robinhood Chain! We build secure, intuitive, and decentralized products that enable our users to custody and manage their digital assets. Our team works at the intersection of traditional finance and web3, driving progress in cryptocurrency and blockchain applications. We work closely with product managers, product designers, and backend engineers to deliver highly reliable, high-performance systems for customers worldwide. We pride ourselves on a culture of shared learning, high technical standards, and respectful collaboration. As a Senior Android Developer , you’ll build and own new product features for the Robinhood Wallet Android app. You will develop reliable and secure solutions to deliver a high-quality trading experience for cryptocurrencies and tokenized stocks, including perpetual futures, to customers worldwide. In this role, you will take lead responsibility for designing scalable mobile architectures, defining code standards, and maintaining high-quality codebases. You will collaborate closely with client engineers, backend develop
From C$1.5K/yr
Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Robinhood Wallet team’s mission is to democratize access to financial services worldwide by leveraging DeFi protocols and Robinhood Chain! We build secure, intuitive, and decentralized products that enable our users to custody and manage their digital assets. Our team works at the intersection of traditional finance and web3, driving progress in cryptocurrency and blockchain applications. We work closely with product managers, product designers, and security engineers to deliver highly reliable, high-performance systems for customers worldwide. We pride ourselves on a culture of shared learning, high technical standards, and respectful collaboration. As a Senior Software Developer , you’ll build and own the backend services, infrastructure, and data systems that support Robinhood Wallet products. You will develop reliable and secure solutions to deliver a high-quality trading experience for cryptocurrencies and tokenized stocks, including perpetual futures, to customers worldwide. In this role, you will take lead responsibility for designing scalable architectures and maintaining high-quality codebases. You will collaborate closely with client engineers, security profess
About the Role: As a Staff Software Engineer on the ML Infrastructure team, you will collaborate closely with the Machine Learning and Product teams to build world-class machine learning inference platforms. These platforms power essential services like personalized recommendations, search, and content understanding across Tubi. A core responsibility of this team is developing and maintaining low-latency ML model serving systems that support Deep Learning, LLM, and Search models. This involves building self-service infrastructure and critical components such as the inference engine, feature store, vector store, and experimentation engine. You will improve the way we deploy and operate our services and even contribute to open-source projects. This role grants the architectural freedom to explore new frameworks, lead critical cross-functional projects, and transform the capabilities of our ML and Product teams. Responsibilities: Design and build scalable, high throughput, and low latency distributed systems using Scala Build reusable components and services that serve various ML applications like Personalization, Search, Ads and Exploration Partner closely with ML engineers to understand their challenges and limitations and develop scalable solutions to address them. Proactively recommend solutions to keep our ML Inference stack state of the art. Take a data driven approach to identifying & optimizing latency, cost, and efficiency of our infra. Lead large scale cross functional refactorings if necessary Mentor other engineers on the team on system design, effective incident management, interviewing, leveraging LLMs for work, etc. Collaborate with ML, Product, and cross functional engineering teams to define the long term vision and architecture for ML Infrastructure at Tubi. Your Background: Experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems in any modern backend language (e.g., Scala, Java, Python, Go, C++); experience with Scala or JVM b
About the Role: The team is responsible for building and optimizing the UI/UX across all Web and OTT applications at Tubi. The team primarily focuses on implementing features related to user acquisition and growth, including but not limited to user registration, onboarding, SEO, and account management. As part of this team, you will work closely with Product and Design to develop cutting-edge, experiment-driven features that enhance the user experience. In addition to front-end development, you’ll be responsible for building the underlying technical architecture to ensure performance and scalability, while proactively exploring engineering-driven features and experiments that can drive user growth. You will be working with React, Node.js, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and CDN infrastructure to build and deploy high-performance applications that reach millions of users. This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office two days/week. What You'll Do: Work with product management and other stakeholders (Backend, Product, and UI/UX) to iterate on new growth-related features, including registration, onboarding, and SEO. Lead the technical architecture and implementation of scalable and resilient applications that run on multiple platforms, such as web, mobile web, and smart TV devices. Lead and drive innovation in building experiment-driven features that push the boundaries of user experience in streaming. Consistently ship features and improvements across Web and OTT apps with minimal guidance, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact updates. Identify and implement improvements in shared UI components, platform-specific optimizations, and overall front-end infrastructure. Take ownership of the codebase and proactively identify opportunities for refactoring and development process improvement. Mentor and collaborate with fellow engineers, sharing technical expertise and contributi
About the Team: Tubi's Internal Tools team is at the forefront of AI integration, developing everything from developer resources to production-grade AI for business operations. We are the group responsible for turning AI from an experiment into an operating capability: training, infrastructure, developer agents, and AI-powered business systems. Engineers operate with high ownership and autonomy, collaborating on shared architectural decisions and AI infrastructure. What You'll Do: Own systems end to end — design them, build them, and support them in production. Lead the projects you own: sequence the work, decide what lands first, and set technical direction for the engineers working with you. Sit with the people who use what you build, and turn what you learn there into a system. Design the service boundaries, contracts and schema evolution that let our platforms grow without breaking the teams depending on them. Make our AI systems dependable in production: evaluation harnesses, human approval steps before an agent acts, retries that handle a model returning something unexpected, and cost tracking that tells you what a task costs before you run it. Build what other engineers build on — agent skills, tool and MCP integrations, shared libraries — and raise the bar through code review, design discussion and mentoring. Spot the platform work nobody has asked for yet, make the case for it, and build it. Your Background: 5+ years of professional experience building and operating production systems, from design through production ownership. A system you designed and can walk us through end to end — where its boundaries sit, what constrained it, and what you chose against. Strong programming proficiency in a statically typed language such as Rust, Go, C++, Java, Kotlin, C#, or TypeScript. Production Rust is a plus rather than a requirement. You have owned a service in production: you wrote the runbooks, you knew what it cost, and you were the one paged when it broke. Expe
From C$108K/yr
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. As a Frontend Software Engineer on the Operator Core Tooling pod, you'll play a vital role in building the robust services that power our critical operations tooling platform. Your work will directly empower our micromobility operations teams by providing them with intuitive and efficient tools, significantly improving their daily workflows as they manage our fleet. You'll collaborate closely with business leaders, front-end developers, and data scientists across Lyft to achieve this impact. Responsibilities: Help define the roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Have a good grasp and ability to explain the various tradeoffs made in decisions Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Lead projects from idea to positive execution Incorporate considerations for business context and failure modes in your work Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents Unblock, support, effectively communicate and obtain buy-in across teams to achieve results Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices See the direct impact of your work on the efficiency of our operating teams Experience: 3+ years of software engineering industry Advanced knowledge of JavaScript Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks, like React Experience working with NodeJS and Express applications Experience working with design systems (e.g. Bootstrap, Salesforce Lightning, GitHub Primer) Good understanding of web performance and how browsers and DOM work Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing Experience designing, building and improving a set of team owned components Culture of investigating and solvin
From C$168K/yr
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The team The UI Platform team is the force multiplier for Okta’s entire product portfolio. By building world-class components, accessible frameworks, and developer-friendly tools, your work will directly impact millions of administrative and end-user interactions every day. You will work alongside dedicated product and engineering partners in an environment that values speed, clarity, and career-defining impact. The role The Principal Product Designer – UI Platform is a high-impact individual contributor role, serving as a foundational design lead for Okta's global user experience infrastructure. Joining the Product Platform group, you will act as a resident expert and strategic thought partner, shaping the horizontal design patterns, design architecture, localization/globalization frameworks, and accessibility standards (WCAG) that power every Okta Workforce Identity product. You will partner directly with cross functional UI Platform leads to drive platform-level initiatives, harmonizing user experience (UX) and developer experience (DevEx) across our engineering and product organizations. You will also collaborate closely with the Design Systems team, acting as a bridge between the system and feature teams applying it to our product. What you’ll be doing When everyone on the team can generate UI, the designer's role shifts. You become the person responsible for strong systems thinking, taste, quality, experience, and being the voice of the custome
From C$908.4K/yr
About the Role: Tubi is seeking a highly skilled and experienced QA Automation Engineer to lead quality assurance initiatives for our cutting-edge streaming and AI-driven product features. This pivotal role involves ensuring exceptional end-to-end user experiences, robust streaming playback, and the accuracy and integrity of our AI/ML features across web, mobile, and OTT platforms. We're looking for a candidate with a strong background in streaming QA and deep technical knowledge of media workflows. You'll be instrumental in collaborating with engineering, product, and data science teams to define comprehensive QA strategies that guarantee both functional excellence and data-level quality This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office two days/week. What You'll Do: Design and lead test strategies for streaming workflows, playback systems, and AI-powered features. Test across platforms (web, mobile, and connected TV) to ensure functional parity and playback stability. Validate streaming performance—including ABR logic, encoding pipelines, and DRM integrations—under diverse real-world conditions. Debug with precision using tools like Charles Proxy, Chrome DevTools, ADB, and Xcode. Collaborate with data and ML teams to validate AI model updates, recommendations, and personalization accuracy. Leverage AI-assisted QA tools to enhance regression coverage, UI validation, and anomaly detection. Contribute to automation and CI/CD frameworks, driving faster, more reliable releases. Oversee QA deliverables for multiple concurrent releases and ensure seamless sign-off for production launches. Monitor live environments for playback or recommendation anomalies post-release and escalate issues promptly. Continuously improve QA processes, metrics, and reporting for streaming and AI validation. Your Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experi
From C$108K/yr
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Identity & Integrity organization is looking for software engineers. We are growing our team with people who want to build, improve and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched and safe. As an engineer at Lyft, you'll collaborate with teams like product, data science, analytics, and operations on code that empower us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers. As a Software Engineer in the Identity team, your primary responsibilities will encompass: Lyft’s Login & Signup Experiences: Design and enhancement of our Multi-factor authentication (MFA) experiences. Optimization of verification funnels, including: Phone-based two-factor authentication (2FA) Email verification Identity provider single sign-ons (SSO) Overseeing session management and device validation. Developing OAuth client provisioning and related tooling. Account Security: Act as the frontline defense against fraudsters and phishers aiming to exploit rider and driver accounts through product vulnerabilities. Implement strategies to counteract risks posed by social engineering tactics. Scaling Core Services: Lead the maintenance and optimization of core microservices under the Identity team's purview, essential to Lyft’s diverse service offerings. Manage organizational structures and multi-user management systems. (RBAC, family accounts, AuthZ) Design solutions for high-stakes challenges such as: Preventing unauthorized driving. Thwarting abuse related to recycled phones and their numbers. Striking a balance between stringent customer verification and ensuring minimal user friction. Responsibilities Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Promote appropriate tech and engineering best practices Implement identity and security protocols to se
From C$1.5K/yr
Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Tokenization team's mission is to bring both public and private equity to be tradable 24/7 on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) across the Robinhood Chain. We work at the intersection of blockchain technology, financial market infrastructure, and modern distributed systems - with a focus on accessibility, security, and scalability. Equity markets have been closed nights and weekends for a century; we're building the infrastructure that changes that. As a Senior Software Engineer , you will design and build the core systems that issue, custody, and settle tokenized equities on-chain and keep them in sync with traditional brokerage and ledger systems. You'll lead technically complex projects end to end, make architectural decisions on a foundational Robinhood initiative, and work in a domain where correctness is non-negotiable - the systems you build move real customer assets, continuously, across multiple chains and jurisdictions. This role is based in our Toronto, ON office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week . At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office
From C$160K/yr
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Streaming Foundations team builds services and operates data pipeline infrastructure to support event streaming, messaging, and analytics use cases. We are looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about distributed systems, platform engineering, and solving data-intensive problems at scale. In this high-impact role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Auth0 to scale for years to come. What you’ll be doing Help set the technical direction for the team and influence the engineering roadmap for the Platform’s streaming capabilities Design and lead the implementation of our most complex and critical systems for data-intensive use cases. Research and champion new technologies and architectural patterns to solve strategic challenges and scale the platform. Lead and influence cross-functional initiatives, ensuring technical alignment and successful execution across multiple teams. Improve the operational posture of our systems by designing for observability, reliability, and scalability, and by mentoring others in operational best practices. Coach and mentor senior engineers and act as a technical leader across the engineering organization. Collaborate with different stakeholders like product teams whenever needed. What you’ll bring to our teams 7+ years of software development experience in a fast-paced, agile environment Experience working with Golang or Java is preferred H
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