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Headquarters:

Vancouver

URL:

http://raredays.com

About Rare Days We’re a multi-disciplinary digital product agency obsessed with helping creators build lasting legacies. Since 2020, we’ve built products at the sweet spot where content meets commerce, empowering established creators and content‑led businesses to transform their passion into sustainable success.

Our clients include world‑renowned creators like Esther Perel, Dr. Becky, Colin & Samir, and Ryan Trahan, as well as organizations like Airbnb, Notion, and Ziff Davis. We specialize in community‑first platforms, membership tools, and creator infrastructure—and we build with care, context, and a clear point of view.

We’re a fully remote team based in Canada and are open to candidates able to work within 4 hours of PST.

About the Role We are hiring a

Lead Engineer

with deep backend expertise and strong fluency across modern web stacks. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on technical challenges, loves building scalable systems, and enjoys collaborating with product, design, and client teams.

You’ll work both independently and with small teams, depending on the project, write production code, and play a key role in steering technical direction.

Core Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Development

Oversee day‑to‑day engineering work, keeping the team unblocked and aligned on priorities

Architect scalable backend systems using languages and frameworks such as Go and Python. Experience with Kotlin is a plus.

Contribute to frontend work using React and TypeScript as needed

Drive decision‑making around performance, scalability, and system design

Write clean, maintainable code and ensure engineering best practices are followed

Lead technical documentation, sprint planning, and ongoing delivery

Collaboration & Client Engagement





Partner with product managers and designers to define and scope solutions

Lead client‑facing conversations around technical strategy and progress

Present work during demos, milestone check‑ins, and roadmap reviews

Balance business needs with technical feasibility in collaborative planning sessions

Team Mentorship & Culture

Provide regular feedback and guidance to engineers

Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and leveling processes

Help foster a strong, inclusive engineering culture rooted in transparency and accountability

Identify opportunities to improve our tools, processes, and technical standards

What We’re Looking For

7+ years of professional engineering experience

English proficiency

Experience with Go and Python, including system architecture and performance optimization, is required. Kotlin experience is a plus.

Strong knowledge of React, NextJS and TypeScript

Backend experience with APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), cloud services (AWS, GCP), and distributed systems

You can communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical audiences and are comfortable leading presentations and deep‑dive technical discussions

You understand how to compromise on business trade‑offs and technical decisions

You can design and communicate robust, scalable technical solutions that our internal and client teams understand and want to work on,



and you understand how to achieve compromise on business trade‑offs and technical decisions.

You’re comfortable dealing with uncertainty and are capable of disambiguating complex scope and domains to your team

You care about people and are motivated to help your team members achieve success on projects.

Bonus Skills

Experience building creator platforms, media tools, or community‑driven products

Familiarity with GraphQL, gRPC, or microservice infrastructure

Interest in developer experience, automation, or DevOps tooling

Compensation and Benefits

Extended health benefits for Canadian employees

Flexible working hours and a remote‑friendly culture

Versatile time‑off allowance for vacation, sick days, and personal time as needed. We actively encourage team members to make use of this time‑off policy

The opportunity to work with well‑known creators and brands, including Esther Perel, Colin & Samir, Shan Boodram, and Sophia Amoruso

As an organization headquartered in British Columbia, we’re required to post the salary range if the position is to be filled locally. This range may be higher or lower for candidates based outside of BC, and actual pay will take into account the candidate’s experience and competencies.

We understand that women and other marginalized groups may hesitate to apply for roles unless they meet every qualification. If this role excites you, but you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway! We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion, diversity, and hiring exceptional talent from around the world.

To apply:

https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/rare-days-full-stack-engineering-lead

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📌 Rare Days: Full-Stack Engineering Lead (Vancouver)
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