Senior Software Engineer, Platform

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Devops

Job Summary

Job Description

GlossGenius is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Application Platform team. The role involves designing, building, and operating critical backend services and distributed systems to enhance developer experience. Responsibilities include evolving core platforms for scale and reliability, streamlining services through CI/CD improvements, standardizing observability, and enhancing feature flagging. The engineer will own projects end-to-end, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior engineers, and uphold high standards for engineering and product quality. This role is crucial for supporting rapid growth and ensuring systems can handle significant transaction volumes.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Focus on distributed systems at scale
  • Backend development proficiency (Kotlin, TypeScript)
  • Passion for API design and developer experience
  • Experience leading complex technology initiatives
Good to have:
  • Willingness to learn Ruby
  • Experience with Rails and Sidekiq
Perks:
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Competitive health and dental insurance
  • Generous, fully-paid parental leave
  • Professional Development stipend
  • Home office support
  • Team bonding opportunities

Job Details

About GlossGenius

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed.  We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more. 

Over 90,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Application Platform team, you'll be at the heart of the developer experience at GlossGenius. We're looking for an engineer who is passionate about building the shared frameworks, core services, and foundational tooling that empower our product teams to build better and faster. You will help us distill complexity into simple, elegant solutions that allow our engineers to focus on what matters most: delivering value to our customers.

The Application Platform team's mission is to provide a bedrock of stable, scalable, and easy-to-use services. We treat our platform as a product, and our fellow engineers are our customers. Your work is critical to ensuring our systems can support our rapid growth, which already includes billions in transaction volume across tens of thousands of businesses.

 This role can be based remotely in or near the Greater Toronto Area.

What You’ll Do

  • Design, build, and operate the next generation of critical backend services and distributed systems that form the foundation of our products. You will evolve our core platforms to the next level of scale and reliability.
  • Turn ambiguous problems into concrete, delightful developer experiences. You will streamline our services by improving CI/CD, standardizing observability, and enhancing our feature flagging system to reduce risk.
  • Own projects end-to-end, from technical design through implementation and rollout. You'll make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
  • Partner closely with product engineering, infrastructure, security, and design teams to co-create solutions. You will act as a force-multiplier, mentoring other engineers and championing best practices in everything you do.
  • Uphold best practices and high standards for engineering and product quality in addition to mentoring newer team members to do the same.

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale.
  • Deep technical proficiency in backend development, ideally with Kotlin and TypeScript. A willingness to learn and work with Ruby is also important as we modernize our stack.
  • A passion for great API design and amazing developer experiences. You see other engineering teams as your customers and are driven to build tools and services that accelerate their work.
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional technology initiatives and influencing technical roadmaps. You can break down large-scale projects and partner effectively with stakeholders to deliver results.
  • You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, have a bias for action, and a commitment to continuous improvement for yourself and the team around you.

What We Work With

We are open to candidates who have worked in different languages but are open to learn.

  • Languages: Kotlin, TypeScript, Ruby (Rails, Sidekiq)
  • Frameworks & Technologies: gRPC, Protobuf, Postgres, micronaut, jooq

Benefits & Perks

  • Flexible PTO
  • Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums covered by GG
  • Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
  • Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
  • Home office support
  • Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

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About The Company

GlossGenius is an all-in-one solution that over 90,000 customers within the beauty and wellness industry rely on to manage their critical business needs. We like to think of ourselves as a business-in-a-box solution, tailored to the professionals we serve. Our powerful yet easy-to-use app offers a range of business management tools such as booking and scheduling, advanced marketing, insightful analytics, payment processing, stunning card readers, web hosting – the list goes on. Our mission as a company is to empower small business owners to get back to what they love doing – their creative work – instead of the overwhelming administrative tasks that come with running a business.

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