Posted Monday, August 24, 2026 at 4:00 AM

Purpose Unlimited is an independent financial services company with an unrelenting focus on customer-centric innovation, delivered through technology-driven solutions. Led by entrepreneur Som Seif, the company is developing a diversified product platform aimed at addressing historically underserved segments of the market. Purpose Unlimited’s businesses include Purpose Investments, Advisor Solutions by Purpose, and Driven.

Vacancy Status: This is for a current opening.

Job Description

Who you are

You own the hardest technical problems in our consumer-facing product — setting the bar for how code ships, how architecture decisions get made, and how AI-augmented engineering works in a regulated environment. Impact is measured in product outcomes: performance, reliability, client experience. AI fluency is a baseline expectation; you lead how the team integrates it, handling the judgment, architecture, and craft that AI cannot replace.

Responsibilities: What you will do/ What you'll drive

- Product performance and reliability - own architectural decisions that move latency, uptime, and client-facing quality metrics.
- Technical direction for AI-augmented engineering - define tools, workflows, standards for AI-generated code, and how productivity is measured.
- Engineering craft and release safety - testing standards and observability practices that let the team ship weekly in a SOC 2 environment.
- Cross-cutting problem solving - shared abstractions, state management, platform tech debt, resolved without stalling delivery.
- Team capability and growth - mentorship, design feedback, and code review that raises the ceiling of what the team can do.




- Product partnership - pressure-test requirements before they become expensivecommitments;advocate for technical quality as a driver of client experience.

What AI does so youdon’thave to

- Generates boilerplate, test scaffolding, and routine implementations - you review, refine, and ensure production standards.
- Runs automated code quality checks, vulnerability scanning, and compliance flag analysis - you interpret results and make the call.
- Aggregates performance data, incident patterns, and release risk signals - you decide what to act on.
- Drafts documentation, RFC templates, and technical specs - you shape the thinking and ensure architectural coherence.

Qualifications: What you will bring

- Significant experiencebuilding consumer-facing software at scale, with architectural judgment from systems that serve real users under real load.
- Full-stack depth - you move between frontend, backend, and infrastructure when the problem demands it.
- Experience in a regulated industry (financial services, healthcare, or similar) - SOC 2 or ISO 27001 compliance as part of engineering quality, not friction.
- Track recordof leading technical decisions: writing RFCs, driving alignment, knowing when to push for consensus vs. make the call.

What will set you apart

- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Claude Code,



Cursor, or similar) and a formed perspective on how they change team dynamics.
- Experience governing AI-generated code quality in production -you’vethought about when AI output is good enough and when human craft isrequired.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers; your leverage at this level is as much about team capability as your own code.
- You think in systems - understanding how technical decisions ripple through product quality and end-user experience.
- Degree in CS/Software Engineering or equivalent practical depth.

What success looks like in one year

- Core platform uptime and latency measurably improved; release process introduces demonstrably less risk.
- Team has adopted AI-assisted workflows with explicit quality and governance standards; engineering throughput measurably increased.
- At least two cross-cutting architectural decisions you led is in production and have reduced fragility or improved developer velocity.
- Engineers you mentoraretaking on harder problems and shipping with more confidence.
- Product and design leaders actively seek your input before committing to technical approaches.

Our five values:

Innovation - You bringnew ideas, challenge the status quo, and find better ways of building. Youdontwait for permission to experiment.

Courage - You speak up when somethingisntworking, take difficult stands on technical quality, and act with conviction even whenitsuncomfortable.

Owner's Mindset - You take full accountability for your squad's outcomes. You treat the platform, the team, and the business as your own.

Client Focus - You place client outcom

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Purpose Unlimited
📍 Canada