SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Meroka

$80K — $100K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of full-stack engineering experience preferred, but exceptional candidates with less experience welcome.
  • Strong understanding of both front-end and back-end development.
  • Ability to manage projects and take full ownership from concept to deployment.
  • Comfortable working in ambiguous environments with minimal guidance.
  • Proactive in engaging with end-users to inform product development.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement features that align with business needs, from conception to deployment.
  • Collaborate across the technology stack, including data management, back-end services, and user interfaces.
  • Set technical direction and establish development conventions as an early team member.
  • Engage directly with business operators to understand workflows and optimize tools.
  • Iterate quickly on features based on user feedback and operational needs.

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity stake in the company.
  • Hybrid working model for flexibility.
  • Opportunity to shape the technical landscape in an early-stage environment.
Full Job Description
Location: Hybrid, Montreal

Type: Full-time, permanent role. Competitive salary plus meaningful equity and benefits.

About the Role

We're building the technology that runs real, acquired businesses - the systems behind quoting, scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, field operations, and everything else that keeps a blue-collar business moving. It isn't software for software's sake; it ships to companies we own and gets used by real crews the week after you build it. That's a rare feedback loop, and it's the whole point of building here.

We're looking for an intermediate full-stack engineer who can own a build from end to end - take something from a rough idea to something real people rely on, without needing every corner specified first. You'll have real ownership over what you build and how, and a direct line to the people using it. Around five years of experience is a good marker, but it's not a hard line - if you're earlier and clearly excellent, we want to talk.

This Is Not For You If...

  • You need a fully scoped backlog before you can move, rather than working through ambiguity.
  • You'd rather own one narrow layer than take a feature from front end to back end and out the door.
  • You want to stay far from the customer and just take tickets.
  • You'd rather join something already built than help lay the foundation.

What You'll Do

  • Own builds end to end - design, build, ship, and iterate on features that go straight into businesses we operate.
  • Work full-stack across the product, from data and back-end services to the interfaces field teams actually use.
  • Help set the technical direction, conventions, and tooling as an early engineer on a small team.
  • Get close to the businesses we acquire - talk to operators, understand real workflows, and build tools people actually want.
  • Move fast against a deliberate plan, in close partnership with product, ops, and the rest of engineering.

Who You Are

  • You can carry a build end to end and take real ownership of the outcome, not just your slice of it.
  • Strong full-stack fundamentals and good judgment about when to do it right and when to do it fast.
  • Around five years of experience is a good guide - but exceptional and earlier beats experienced and fine.
  • You do well in ambiguity, and you like being close to the people your software serves.

Nice to Haves

  • Experience building from scratch in an early-stage environment, a startup, or your own projects.
  • Fluency with modern applied AI - LLMs, agents, and the practical trade-offs of shipping reliable AI features.
  • Interest in the physical, built world and the operators who run it.

How to Apply

  • Please send us either a short Loom video (preferred), your CV or a brief summary of your experience. Our Chief of Staff, Alexandra Kiekens, will reach out to you via LinkedIn to schedule a short 10-minute introductory phone call as the first step of the interview process.

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