Generac Power Systems

Staff Software Engineer

Generac Power Systems$160K — $214K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with large, complex projects.
  • Expertise in building agentic workflows in large-scale systems.
  • Strong system design and architecture skills for high-availability systems.
  • Proficient in multiple programming languages including Go, Java, TypeScript, C++, and Python.
  • Experience with messaging queue processing like PubSub, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
  • Proven ability to mentor and lead within an engineering context.

Responsibilities

  • Strengthen AI foundations for adoption of agentic workflows in engineering teams.
  • Collaborate with senior engineers to enhance engineering practices.
  • Contribute impactful system architecture designs aligned with enterprise standards.
  • Take ownership of full components, ensuring high standards in implementation and operations.
  • Deliver maintainable, high-quality code and lead debugging efforts.
  • Anticipate future challenges and propose preventive technical solutions.
  • Drive innovation in processes and contribute to improvements across engineering teams.
  • Facilitate cross-team discussions for inclusive decision-making on technical solutions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Life insurance and long-term disability coverage.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Accrued paid time off and paid holidays (10 for Ontario, 11 for British Columbia).
  • RRSP retirement benefits.
Full Job Description

Who You’ll Be Joining: 

You'll join the Energy Software Engineering leadership team alongside five Engineering Managers, reporting directly to the Sr Director of Engineering. The team collectively owns the software that keeps millions of homes comfortable, efficient, and connected. Your fingerprints will be across the full stack: the mobile experiences that customers interact with on a daily basis, the utility integrations powering smarter energy grids, the smart building tools that help property managers operate at scale, the APIs that a growing ecosystem of third-party developers builds on, and the connectivity and platform services that hold it all together. The scale is real, the problems are hard, and the impact on people’s lives is tangible. If you're looking for a role where the surface area is wide, the ownership is genuine, and there's always something worth building, this is it!

This role follows a hybrid schedule, with in-office work required on Wednesdays and Thursdays from our Toronto office to support collaboration, and flexibility to work remotely for the remainder of the week.

How You’ll Make an Impact: 

  • Strengthen our AI enablement foundations to accelerate adoption of agentic workflows within our engineering teams.
  • Partner with principal and staff engineers to improve our engineering practices.
  • Architectural Impact: Contribute to ecobee’s system architecture with designs that have been battle-tested, resulting in significant, long-lasting impact within a specific domain. Solutions are expected to integrate elegantly with ecobee’s broader enterprise architecture and align with company-wide standards.
  • Ownership & Delivery: Take end-to-end ownership of full components within your domain of expertise, ensuring that their design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations meet high standards. These components will likely interact with systems in other domains, requiring careful consideration of cross-team dependencies.
  • Code Quality & Debugging: Consistently deliver high-quality, maintainable code. Lead by example in debugging tough, stack-wide issues, finding root causes, and implementing effective solutions.
  • Forward-Thinking & Strategic Initiatives: Anticipate future challenges and propose technical solutions that prevent future roadblocks. Participate in evaluating and recommending new technologies and frameworks for the product group.
  • Mentorship & Collaboration: Actively mentor other engineers, guiding them toward concrete goals and fostering a culture of feedback and knowledge sharing. Lead or participate in design reviews, post-mortems, and code reviews.
  • Innovation & Impact: Drive innovative improvements to processes and best practices across the engineering organization. Contribute to novel solutions that influence ecobee’s engineering direction and deliver measurable, high-impact results across multiple teams and domains.
  • Cross-team Collaboration: Facilitate and lead discussions across squads, ensuring inclusive decision-making processes and cross-functional buy-in on technical solutions and business decisions. Serve as a trusted advisor and leader within ecobee’s engineering community.

What You’ll Bring to the Table:

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of owning and delivering complex, cross-domain projects at scale.
  • Experience in building agentic workflows in large-scale systems
  • Expertise in system design, architecture, and the development of large-scale, high-availability and secure systems.
  • Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks including Go, Java, TypeScript, C++, Python, etc.
  • AI forward thinker who models how an AI-First engineer could work
  • Expertise in messaging queue processing (e.g., PubSub, RabbitMQ, Kafka) and real-time data handling.
  • Experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
  • Experience optimizing database performance and system tuning, ensuring that database and application interactions are fast, reliable, and scalable.
  • Demonstrated ability to debug tough, stack-wide issues across multiple environments, finding root causes and implementing long-term fixes.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor, lead technical discussions, and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.
  • Strong debugging skills, with experience solving complex, stack-wide issues that involve mobile devices and cloud-based services.

Just so you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check

Generac is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role based in Toronto, ON is $160,000 - $214,100 CAD. This compensation will ultimately be in line with the location in which the position is filled. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, certifications and geographic location. This role is eligible for variable compensation including short term and long-term incentives.

This position includes a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental and vision plans; life, long-term disability, flexible spending and health savings accounts, accrued paid time off, paid Holidays (10 for Ontario, 11 for British Columbia) and RRSP retirement benefits

About Generac Power Systems

Generac Power Systems is a manufacturer of backup power generation products for residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Generac operates through two business segments: Domestic and International. The Domestic segment produces generators, transfer switches, and other backup power equipment for residential and commercial customers in the United States. The International segment produces similar products for customers outside the United States. Generac sells its products through a network of dealers and distributors.
Learn more about Generac Power Systems
Size
8,955 employees
Market Cap
$5.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$350.5 million
Founded
1959
5 Year Trend
+20.9%
Revenue
$2.4 billion
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