Staff Software Engineer – Essentials

🕒 November 3

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $180k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Syndio

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

⚖️ Legal

Consulting • Healthcare • Legal

Syndio is a leading provider of pay equity solutions, focusing on helping organizations achieve pay transparency and equity across their workforce. The company offers a comprehensive platform with a range of tools and expert consulting to address pay gaps, ensure compliance, and make informed compensation decisions. Syndio empowers companies to develop strategies for fair and explainable pay policies, streamlining reporting and analytics to meet global compliance standards efficiently. With a strong emphasis on data privacy and security, Syndio is trusted by numerous large enterprises to analyze compensation for millions of employees worldwide.

📋 Description

• Build and optimize high-performance workflows for complex mathematical and statistical calculations over datasets of hundreds of thousands of records • Own performance across Postgres query plans and indexing, batching, parallelism, memory behavior, Redis caching, and algorithm optimization • Ensure performance improvements preserve correctness • Build dependable orchestration using message and queueing systems, workflow orchestration, job scheduling, retries, idempotency, and backpressure • Design for partial failure in long-running multi-stage pipelines • Build observability for diagnosing slow or incorrect runs, including timing, lineage, and inspectable intermediate state • Build agentic tooling for data validation, remediation, analysis setup, exception triage, and report generation • Design agent harnesses with evaluation sets, verification steps, constrained tool surfaces, and human review points • Provide agents with current documentation, schemas, conventions, and project context • Improve agentic development workflows and share effective practices with the team • Partner with engineering and technical leaders on standards for testing, performance, and agentic practice • Improve integration and end-to-end testing for a complex service-based architecture • Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code review • Drive scalability, reliability, testing, observability, and agent adoption across Essentials, AI, and Customer Success teams

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional hands-on experience • Deep experience in complex, distributed, service-based systems • Proven performance and scale work, including profiling bottlenecks and preserving correctness • Experience with large-dataset computation, numerical or statistical workloads, or heavy data pipelines • Experience with message systems, queues, or workflow orchestration tooling • Strong proficiency across several of Python, Go, Node/JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Postgres, and NoSQL stores such as Firebase • Familiarity with caching layers like Redis • Strong end-to-end and integration testing of service-based architectures • Hands-on experience with an e2e framework such as Playwright or Cypress • Daily use of coding agents and experience building reliable agentic development harnesses • Experience with tight test loops, CI/CD gates, spec-to-code workflows, and high-quality output practices • Ability to drive ambiguous, high-stakes problems to shipped results autonomously • Ability to collaborate across teams and translate technical constraints into business language • Ability to establish and follow team-wide engineering standards • Based in Calgary • Legally authorized to work in Alberta without additional visa support now or in the future

🏖️ Benefits

• Syndio Equity • 20 days annually • Paid sick & safe time • Compassion leave • Voting leave • Additional Private Medical coverage • Remote-First work environment within commuting distance of Calgary

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