Senior Software Developer

Optio Incentives

$100K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Toronto, ON
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, strong full-stack skills preferred
  • Proficiency in modern web development practices, especially in TypeScript and React
  • Experience with GCP, GKE, PostgreSQL, or adaptable to new technologies
  • Ability to transform ambiguous problems into actionable plans
  • High standards for code quality and production readiness
  • Excellent communication skills for stakeholder alignment

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery of product and platform from discovery to production
  • Drive architecture and technical design decisions, balancing trade-offs
  • Enhance system reliability and maintainability through improved practices
  • Collaborate with Product and Sales teams on project scoping and sequencing
  • Mentor team members via code reviews and technical guidance
  • Lead cross-team initiatives for senior profiles, aligning stakeholders effectively

Benefits

  • Fully remote work environment
  • High trust and ownership culture
  • Opportunity to work in cross-functional teams
  • Use of AI tools to enhance workflows
  • Focus on value creation over volume shipped
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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