Senior Software Developer

Optio Incentives

$100K — $130K *
US-AnywhereIn-Person
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in full-stack engineering or strong backend with a willingness to engage with the full stack
  • Proficient in modern web development practices with adaptability to learn quickly
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to clarify ambiguous requirements
  • Commitment to high standards of code quality and maintainability
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to keep stakeholders aligned

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end delivery of product and platform initiatives from design to production
  • Drive technical architecture and design, making informed trade-offs
  • Enhance code reliability and maintainability through better testing and operational practices
  • Collaborate with Product and Sales to scope and sequence projects
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and technical guidance
  • Lead cross-team initiatives, particularly for senior profiles, aligning stakeholders and establishing standards

Benefits

  • Fully remote work environment
  • High trust, high ownership culture
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Focus on value creation over quantity shipped
  • Opportunities for mentorship and technical growth
Full Job Description
About the role
We are hiring experienced engineers who can be a main contributor on a team and, for more senior profiles, contribute across multiple teams and drive larger technical initiatives.

You will be hands-on in the codebase and take ownership of outcomes, not just tasks. Depending on your strengths and current priorities, you will work across:
  • Market and trading capabilities
  • Emerging markets capabilities
  • Admin portal
  • Participant portal

Tech stack
  • GCP, GKE
  • PostgreSQL
  • TypeScript backend (Node.js and Deno), although we are not tied to these technologies
  • React frontend

We use AI tools as part of daily workflows. Experience with agentic flows is appreciated, but not required.

What you'll do
  • Own end to end delivery of meaningful product and platform work, from discovery and design to production and iteration
  • Drive architecture and technical design within your area, making pragmatic trade-offs and raising the quality bar
  • Improve reliability, correctness, and maintainability through better testing, observability, and operational practices
  • Collaborate tightly with Product and Sales on scoping, sequencing, and decisions
  • Mentor other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical leadership
  • For very senior profiles: Lead cross-team initiatives, align stakeholders, and create leverage through shared patterns, tooling, and standards

Who you are
  • Senior engineer with strong full-stack capability, or strong backend plus willingness to work across the stack when needed
  • Strong in modern web development practices, or able to ramp quickly
  • Comfortable taking ambiguous problems and turning them into clear plans and shipped outcomes
  • High standards for code quality, production readiness, and long-term maintainability
  • Clear communicator who keeps stakeholders aligned and makes progress visible
  • Enjoys working in a high trust, high ownership environment

Nice to have
  • Fintech experience, or experience building software where correctness and auditability matter
  • Experience using AI tools effectively in engineering workflows (prompting, evaluation habits, lightweight automation, agentic flows)

How we work
  • Cross-functional, outcome-oriented teams
  • Decisions happen close to the work, informed by direct user insight
  • We combine product discovery and delivery as one team
  • Success is defined by value created, not volume shipped


Department Technology Locations Canada Remote status Fully Remote

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