Staff Software Engineer, Backend

About the Role

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Backend to join our Reverse ETL product engineering team.

What You’ll Do

• Make contributions to all parts of our tech stack, which comprises Ruby on Rails, Typescript, Vue, and AWS.
• Be comfortable “filling in the gaps” in product / design specs. The prospect of being able to prototype to test ideas out before committing to building is exciting to you.
• Work closely with our product team, leaders, and customers to help design and develop features that make Fivetran the one-stop shop for data activation.
• Mentor early-career engineers, perform thoughtful and constructive code reviews, advise on best practices, provide project-level leadership, operate across teams, departments, and time zones.
• Lead major projects, from driving research spikes, to writing and socializing design documents, to planning the implementation and rollout

Skills We’re Looking For

• Can build things end-to-end. Our engineers build, deploy and maintain their code.
• Is adept with data, backend systems, APIs, and UI components.
• Is customer-focused, with an eye for building delightful product experiences and developer experiences.
• Approaches new problems with a scrappy optimism, with a bias towards action.
• Thrives in ambiguous environments where you get to work directly with customers and make decisions that build trust and have a huge impact on the business.
• Present and available online for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration with a team distributed across North America.
• Able to work in-person in our Toronto/Oakland office 2 days per week.