What's the job about?

As a Staff Software Developer at Auvik, you'll lead through technical excellence. You'll dive deep into our systems, tackle the hardest technical problems, and deliver production-quality solutions that improve our products and platform at scale. While your influence may extend across teams through shared tooling, mentorship, or technical guidance, your day-to-day focus will be deeply embedded in a development team - designing, coding, debugging, and shipping high-quality software alongside your teammates.

This role is ideal for a developer who wants to stay close to the codebase while still having wide-reaching technical influence and driving high-impact outcomes.
What will I be doing?

You'll focus on:

• Own complex technical challenges and architect scalable, performant solutions.
• Writing clean, maintainable code - and lots of it - in languages like Go, Scala, or TypeScript (React/GraphQL).
• Diagnosing and resolving complex production - digging across systems to find root causes and deliver lasting fixes that restore customer trust.
• Working closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to build features that provide real value to our customers.
• Apply AI-enabled techniques to solve complex engineering problems, using intelligent tooling, automation, and data-informed debugging to build scalable systems, improve reliability, and accelerate delivery across the stack.
• Leading by example in code reviews, mentoring other developers, and championing best practices in development and testing.
• Proactively identifying and implementing technical improvements across our codebase, systems, and developer workflows.
• Collaborating across teams to ensure consistency in implementation, performance, and user experience.
• Helping unblock others by sharing context, reviewing designs, and contributing reusable tools, libraries, or frameworks.

What are we looking for?

• A hands-on engineer who loves solving tough problems through code and building systems that scale.
• A deep technical contributor with a strong grasp of system design, clean coding practices, and debugging complex issues.
• A team player who thrives in collaborative environments and can communicate ideas effectively across functions.
• A mentor who lifts others by pairing, sharing insights, and providing thoughtful feedback in reviews.
• A proactive self-starter who can independently lead projects from start to finish, always looking for ways to improve.
• Familiarity with tools and practices for logging, tracing, metrics collection, and alerting (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.).
• You've tackled performance bottlenecks or scalability challenges in high-traffic systems.
• You've built tooling or frameworks that boosted developer velocity.
• You've contributed to open-source projects or enjoy staying sharp with side projects.
• A deeply technical, hands-on engineer who uses AI pragmatically to solve hard problems, writes high-quality production code, debugs across distributed systems, and elevates team output through strong system design and engineering rigor.

Our Stack

• Frontend: React (TypeScript), GraphQL
• Backend: Go, Scala
• Infrastructure & Data: Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS
  (... and more, depending on your area of focus)

We're actively hiring for this role and looking to bring someone great onto the team as soon as possible.

Hiring Process

At Auvik, our hiring process is designed to be personal, transparent, and human-led. Our Talent Acquisition Partners review all resumes, connect with candidates whose skills and experience aligns with the role, and stay in communication with you throughout your journey. If our interests align, you'll meet with a hiring manager, as well as additional members of the hiring team in follow-up conversations. All of your interviews will take place via Zoom.

Before meeting with a hiring manager, we also ask candidates to complete a 5-minute Predictive Index (PI) assessment. This helps us understand and match your strengths and work preferences with roles that will set you up for success.

We use AI tools to support administrative tasks in the hiring process; such as helping source candidates, drafting communications, and interview summaries, so our team can stay focused and present during conversations. We do not use AI tools to interview, screen or assess candidates; or determine who moves forward in the process. We debrief and consider the full context of every conversation before making hiring decisions. We believe hiring requires judgment that can be augmented but, not replaced by AI.

Compensation Details

At Auvik, our compensation philosophy is to be market competitive, reward performance, reflect our commitment to equity and maintain transparency with our employees. We have defined job levels and compensation ranges for each of our markets we employ, based on research from various sources of market data, which are reviewed on a regular basis.

The hiring range for this position is listed below. Compensation offered for candidates in this role is based on a number of factors including job-related skills, knowledge, and experience. These factors may cause your compensation to vary within the range outlined below.

In addition to cash compensation, all full-time employees are granted stock options to share in Auvik's future successes. Auvik employees are eligible to participate in additional benefits and programs including our comprehensive health and dental benefits plan, Wellness spending account, GRSP matching program, flexible paid time off, paid parental leave program, and are eligible for remote working subsidies.

Salary Range:

$160,000-$208,000 CAD