We are hiring a Senior Staff Engineer for a rapid-growing Canadian tech startup building AI-powered consumer products. This role is heavily focused on data infrastructure and platform engineering. This is a hands-on senior IC role. You will code daily, ship features across web, mobile, and data platforms, and partner with Product, Design, Ops, and ML teams.

What You'll Do

- Lead end-to-end data pipeline delivery — upstream acquisition, batch ETL/ELT, and real-time data flows (events, streaming, operational stores)

- Own the data platform and mentor engineers building on it

- Own complex features from proposal through design, implementation, and rollout

- Set engineering standards through design docs and code reviews

- Solve high-leverage problems around performance, scalability, and tech debt

- Partner cross-functionally on roadmaps and trade-offs

What You Bring

- 6+ years software experience with system ownership from concept to production

- Hands-on experience building and maintaining data pipelines — batch ETL/ELT and real-time/streaming systems





- Deep proficiency in a modern backend/full-stack ecosystem (TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Java/Kotlin, Go)

- Strength in performance, scalability, optimization (profiling, caching, data modeling, concurrency)

- Experience with testing, CI/CD, and observability

- Demonstrates AI-native ways of working — comfortable using AI tools to accelerate development, debug, generate and review code, and improve engineering workflows

- Clear communicator, self-directed, effective in remote environments

Nice to Have

- Experience with data-heavy systems, search/ranking/ML integration

- Consumer-facing app experience

- Modern frontend frameworks (React/Vue/Angular), mobile pipelines

What's in It for You

- Base: $150K–$200K CAD

- Stock options

- Comprehensive benefits (health, dental, life, virtual care, travel)

- Generous vacation

- Remote-friendly, flexible hours

Remote anywhere in Canada

📌 Senior Staff Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Hour Consulting
📍 Toronto