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Compensation
$120, 000-$130, 000K CAD per annum
- Salary period
- unclear
- Location basis
- UNSPECIFIED
- Equity
- UNSPECIFIED
- Bonus
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead complex technical initiatives, make architectural decisions that balance short and long-term needs, and raise the bar for code quality and best practices across the team. Beyond writing code, you will improve platform reliability and resiliency, and drive investments in tooling, observability, and processes. In this role, you also act as a mentor and role model — supporting the growth of peers and junior engineers, and fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to play a key part in building, scaling, and shaping Makeship’s platform as a part of one of the fastest-moving industries in the world. Working on a cross-functional team, this position delivers high-impact solutions that serve both creators and their fans. This role combines deep technical expertise with leadership.
Tech stack
Required
ReactNext.jsGoShopifyHubSpotAirtable
Nice to have
ShopifyDatadogFigmaTailwind
Location
Toronto, Canada
Work setup
- Employment
- full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Remote policy
- REMOTE (Canada only)
- Remote scope
- country-limited
- Timezones
- Work remotely anywhere in Canada
- Travel
- UNSPECIFIED
- Relocation
- UNSPECIFIED
- Visa
- UNSPECIFIED
- Authorization
- UNSPECIFIED
- Clearance
- UNSPECIFIED
Role details
Responsibilities
- Lead projects
- Own complex features end to end
- Make architectural calls
- Mentor other engineers
- Own the roadmap
- Work directly with ops, sales, and marketing to make workflows dramatically more efficient
- Own internal systems
- Own the integrations layer connecting Shopify, HubSpot, Airtable, and others
- Lead the technical design, development, and delivery of complex features and projects, ensuring high quality and scalability.
- Define and contribute to technical roadmaps in collaboration with engineering managers and product leaders.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while raising the bar for code reviews, testing, and overall engineering practices.
- Mentor and support other developers through coaching, knowledge sharing, pairing and delegating where appropriate.
- Contribute to architectural discussions and make pragmatic choices that balance technical needs with business priorities.
- Collaborate closely with the product manager, designer, and data analyst, on your team to ensure solutions align with user and business needs.
- Proactively identify and address technical debt, risks, and opportunities for platform improvement.
- Implement and refine best practices within the engineering team
- Support system reliability by troubleshooting, debugging, and improving monitoring and observability practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 2 years in a senior/lead capacity.
- Full-stack development experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, NextJS) and backend service design (Go or similar languages)
- Technical leadership, having guided and delivered complex projects from conception to production, making key architectural decisions and raising engineering standards
- System architecture ownership with experience designing scalable, resilient systems while proactively managing technical debt and platform improvements
- Strong mentorship and coaching skills and a passion for helping others grow in technical excellence and supporting continuous improvement
- Ability to communicate technical ideas effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders while listening actively and fostering a culture of trust and collaboration
- Demonstrated skills in debugging and resolving production issues under pressure while implementing monitoring and operational best practices
- Ecommerce industry knowledge: experience with platforms like Shopify, understanding of payment processing, order management, and retail business workflows
- Third-party integration ownership: experience managing and optimizing vendor relationships and technical integrations for both product features and engineering tooling (analytics, monitoring, etc.)
- Observability practices: hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, implementing alerting strategies, and building dashboards for system health and business metrics
- Component architecture and design systems: experience building scalable frontend architectures, maintaining design systems, and collaborating with design tools like Figma and frameworks like Tailwind
- Data modelling and integration: experience designing data models that integrate and standardize data from multiple third-party sources, with understanding of schema design, data transformation patterns, and API data structures
Application
If you apply, please note that you found us through Hacker News.
- Portfolio
- unclear
- GitHub
- unclear
- Cover letter
- unclear
- Apply flow
- ats
- Canonical URL
- https://makeship.bamboohr.com/careers/76
Company context
- Product
- Limited-edition products for influencers, creators, and brands (design, manufacturing, and fulfillment)
- Industry
- unclear
Description
Makeship empowers influencers, creators, and brands of all sizes to develop and launch limited-edition products that matter to their fans. We handle the design, manufacturing, and fulfillment (plushies, apparel, and more). Check out our site to see some of the anime and gaming merch. We’re profitable, did $65M+ CAD in sales last year, and have been Great Place to Work certified three years running. Two open roles: Senior Software Engineer, full-stack (React/Next.js + Go) on the core platform. You’ll lead projects, own complex features end to end, make architectural calls, and mentor other engineers. Staff Engineer, Systems & Integrations, owning our internal systems and the integrations layer connecting Shopify, HubSpot, Airtable, and others. You’ll own the roadmap and work directly with ops, sales, and marketing to make their workflows dramatically more efficient. If you apply, please note that you found us through Hacker News.
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