Who you are

- 6+ years of software engineering experience shipping real products in fast-moving environments

- Proven success building new products or highly exploratory features (0→1, startups, innovation labs, greenfield initiatives)

- Comfort working with high ambiguity and incomplete information — you can define direction, propose solutions, and move work forward without waiting for perfect specs

- Strong customer empathy and interest in learning directly from users

- Fluency in full-stack development (or strong backend experience paired with solid product instincts), with hands-on experience in Python/Django, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and PostgreSQL

- Solid understanding of system design, APIs, performance, and scalable architecture

- Ability to balance speed vs. quality — you know when to build scrappy and when to build durable

- Excellent communication skills and willingness to collaborate across disciplines

What the job involves

- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in the earliest stages of product development — where the problems are ambiguous, the path is undefined, and the focus is on discovering what should exist, not just building what’s already been decided

- This is a highly creative, high-impact engineering role: you’ll help take brand-new concepts from idea → prototype → production, working closely with design, product, and customers. If you love building new experiences, validating assumptions quickly, shaping product direction, and turning abstract ideas into real software, you’ll excel here

- Build 0→1 products: Create new services, features, and user experiences from scratch — often starting with rough prototypes and evolving them into scalable, production-ready systems

- Work through ambiguity: Take loosely defined, abstract problem spaces and transform them into clear technical and architectural approaches





- Partner deeply with product & design: Participate in customer discovery, sketch solutions, propose alternatives, challenge assumptions, and help define what valuable and delightful looks like

- Experiment rapidly: Build POCs, run technical spikes, validate ideas quickly, and iterate based on real customer feedback

- Influence product direction: Bring an engineering-driven perspective to what we build, how we build it, and what tradeoffs are worth making at early stages

- Design and build scalable systems once we validate the direction, balancing speed with long-term maintainability

- Raise the technical bar: Contribute to architectural discussions, coding standards, best practices, and mentoring other engineers

- Own quality end-to-end: From early prototypes to robust production code, you care deeply about reliability, performance, and customer experience

- You’ll help define a brand-new product experience and shape its technical foundation

- You’ll work in a space where engineering has a huge voice in product direction

- You’ll operate at the intersection of creativity, customer needs, and deep technical work
- The problems are meaningful, the ambiguity is real, and your impact will be visible from day one

Benefits

- 100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents

- Unlimited vacation days and quarterly mental health days so you can recharge

- $1,000 to explore your dream destination on your work anniversary

- $500 annual career development stipend to continue growing and learning

- $500 home office stipend to decorate your home office

- $1,000 caretaker stipend to make sure our parent colleagues are being supported

- Virtual team lunches to keep you connected

- 401k plan to participate in and save towards the future

- Newest hardware and tools for the job

- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Canada)
🏢 CaptivateIQ
📍 Canada