Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About GlossGenius

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed.  We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more. 

Over 90,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Application Platform team, you'll be at the heart of the developer experience at GlossGenius. We're looking for an engineer who is passionate about building the shared frameworks, core services, and foundational tooling that empower our product teams to build better and faster. You will help us distill complexity into simple, elegant solutions that allow our engineers to focus on what matters most: delivering value to our customers.

The Application Platform team's mission is to provide a bedrock of stable, scalable, and easy-to-use services. We treat our platform as a product, and our fellow engineers are our customers. Your work is critical to ensuring our systems can support our rapid growth, which already includes billions in transaction volume across tens of thousands of businesses.

 This role can be based remotely in or near the Greater Toronto Area.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and operate the next generation of critical backend services and distributed systems that form the foundation of our products. You will evolve our core platforms to the next level of scale and reliability.
• Turn ambiguous problems into concrete, delightful developer experiences. You will streamline our services by improving CI/CD, standardizing observability, and enhancing our feature flagging system to reduce risk.
• Own projects end-to-end, from technical design through implementation and rollout. You'll make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Partner closely with product engineering, infrastructure, security, and design teams to co-create solutions. You will act as a force-multiplier, mentoring other engineers and championing best practices in everything you do.
• Uphold best practices and high standards for engineering and product quality in addition to mentoring newer team members to do the same.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Deep technical proficiency in backend development, ideally with Kotlin and TypeScript. A willingness to learn and work with Ruby is also important as we modernize our stack.
• A passion for great API design and amazing developer experiences. You see other engineering teams as your customers and are driven to build tools and services that accelerate their work.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional technology initiatives and influencing technical roadmaps. You can break down large-scale projects and partner effectively with stakeholders to deliver results.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, have a bias for action, and a commitment to continuous improvement for yourself and the team around you.

What We Work With

We are open to candidates who have worked in different languages but are open to learn.

• Languages: Kotlin, TypeScript, Ruby (Rails, Sidekiq)
• Frameworks & Technologies: gRPC, Protobuf, Postgres, micronaut, jooq

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums covered by GG
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Home office support
• Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.