Staff Software Engineer, Core Applications

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Staff Software Engineer, Core Applications in Canada

Solink
Full time
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Canada
09/30/2026
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Ottawa

Responsibilities

Build and improve features across React/TypeScript web and React Native/Expo mobile applications.
Own features end-to-end from design and API implementation through coding, testing, shipping, and production monitoring.
Drive architecture and technical direction across web, mobile, and API layers, including scalable technical documentation.
Improve application stability, performance, user experience, code quality, and engineering practices.
Design and build NestJS/TypeScript APIs supporting web and mobile experiences.
Use AI tools for coding, debugging, code review, research, and broader engineering leverage.
Triage and resolve bugs, perform targeted refactoring, and conduct thoughtful code reviews.
Lead technical projects and cross-functional initiatives while anticipating delivery risks.
Mentor and coach engineers and cross-functional partners through complex problems.
Build frameworks, standards, and tooling that improve team effectiveness beyond individual features.

Requirements

Strong production TypeScript and React experience, ideally on a mature product rather than only greenfield projects.
Full-stack experience designing APIs and working with PostgreSQL and Redis, including tracing issues across UI, API, and database layers.
Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end architecture across web, mobile, and API platforms, with scalable documentation practices.
Track record improving mature, customer-facing products used by thousands of customers without breaking them.
Active use of AI tools to accelerate engineering work and identify additional leverage.
Understanding of REST APIs, frontend-backend interactions, and web and mobile performance trade-offs.
Ability to communicate clearly, work through ambiguity, self-direct, prioritize, and collaborate with product and design.
Experience mentoring engineers, providing constructive feedback, and contributing to technical direction.
Hands-on React Native experience is preferred.
Experience with video streaming, security camera systems, or POS/retail technology is preferred.
Familiarity with automated testing using Jest, Detox, Playwright, or similar tools is preferred.
Exposure to mobile CI/CD and App Store or Play Store release pipelines is preferred.
Experience building or integrating AI-powered features and LLM capabilities into user-facing products is preferred.
NestJS or other Node.js backend framework experience is preferred.
Candidates must undergo a criminal records check, be a Canadian citizen or eligible to work in Canada, and comply with Solink security policies.

Benefits

Permanent, full-time hybrid role based in Ottawa, Ontario.
Meaningful equity for every full-time, permanent employee.
Fully paid health and dental benefits with no waiting period, plus a $500 health spending account.
Monthly reimbursement for fitness, wellness, or mental health programs.
Flexible work arrangements where the role permits.
Merit-based advancement, candid culture, and employee social events.

Salary: $138k - $173k/yr

Solink

Solink builds a subscription-based video intelligence platform that links security camera footage with POS and other operational data for retailers, restaurants, and multi-site businesses. Customers use it for loss and fraud prevention, incident investigation, and performance insights across loca...

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