Senior Software Developer (Backend-Focused)

About the Role

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and ship backend services behind Vasco's product, including context, metrics, and planning engines.
• Build secure services that handle customer revenue data and uphold the product's data-trust promise.
• Own work from solution shaping through implementation and release using the team's Shape Up process.
• Collaborate daily with product designers and go-to-market team members.
• Use Claude Code and help develop coding harnesses as part of AI-native development practices.
• Participate in incident response to keep operated systems reliable.

What Vasco Is Looking For

• A product-minded builder who connects technical decisions to customer problems.
• Experience owning complex projects end to end, including scoping, sequencing, unblocking, and stakeholder alignment.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production backend services end to end.
• Experience using AI coding tools to ship real work and assess where they improve quality.
• Judgment in high-stakes situations where the cost of being wrong was meaningful.
• Systems-thinking ability to address root causes and prevent downstream issues.
• Ability to shape loosely defined problems into buildable solutions.
• Clear communication of technical trade-offs and business impact.

Standout Experience

• Production data or context layers consumed by AI agents.
• Data engineering experience with SQL, data modeling, or pipelines.
• DevOps experience with infrastructure, CI/CD, or observability.
• Full-stack application delivery, including frontend work.
• GCP, BigQuery, Node.js, TypeScript, Terraform, semantic layers, or BI tools such as Cube.

Why Vasco

• Small, high-caliber team with experienced founders actively building alongside the team.
• Early-stage pace, meaningful ownership, autonomy, experimentation, and opportunities to develop new skills.
• Compensation positioned at the top of the national market, stock options, uncapped paid time off, parental leave, and employer-paid health benefits.

Where You Will Work

• Hybrid position in Montreal with in-person work three days per week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
• The in-person workplace is WeWork Place Ville-Marie in downtown Montreal.

Hiring Process

• The process includes a discovery call, hiring manager interview, technical stage, and final interview with the CEO.

Additional Hiring Information

• AI may assist with interview note-taking, and candidates may opt out without impact on candidacy.
• The selected candidate must complete a background check before starting.