Junip is looking for a Staff Software Engineer who wants to help shoppers make the right purchasing decisions when shopping online.The Junip productWe operate a review platform at significant scale (10,000+ customers / merchants, tens of millions of shoppers / reviews). We also have new agentic product that is growing quickly. They both work together to help shoppers make purchasing decisions when buying from ecommerce stores.What you’ll doDesign and implement new features end to end, primarily using Rails and ReactSolve performance and infrastructure challenges to scale while improving speed & reliabilityActively collaborate with CX and other team members to fold learnings back into the product experienceMaintain integrations with Shopify and other platform partners (Tik Tok Shop, Meta, Google Shopping etc)Some of the technology you’ll work withRuby on Rails, Postgre SQL, Ruby LLM, Vector DB(s), Redis, Sidekiq, AWS etcNeed to haveExperience building web applications at significant scale,



ideally in Ruby on Rails and/or adjacent technologiesDeep understanding of the software development lifecycle, crafting maintainable codeComfort & eagerness to ship to production dailyConfidence in crafting public APIs, leveraging webhooks and building scalable services (finding solutions to N+1 query problems, maintaining endpoint speed and reliability)Excellent written communication, able to clearly articulate complex ideas / plansExperience using AI tools to accelerate both your pace & quality of software developmentNice to haveExperience building for ecommerce merchantsExperience building agentic toolsImportant things to knowCompetitive perks, PTO & compensationWe’re a small teamProfitable + growingWe have an office in KitchenerDay to day is typically flexible/remoteNeed to be EST, Canada, preference for candidates within 2 hours of Kitchener-Waterloo (London, Toronto, Hamilton etc)#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Kitchener)
🏢 Junip
📍 Kitchener