Software Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Build product features across React, TypeScript, Django, Python, GraphQL, and related systems.
• Own product areas through technical design, implementation, rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
• Translate broad ideas into polished user experiences with Product and Design.
• Write tests, review code, and consider performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Investigate user feedback and issues, find root causes, and make durable improvements.
• Create technical plans, break down ambiguous work, and make practical trade-offs.
• Use AI coding agents and help create tools, prompts, workflows, and engineering practices.
• Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, shared practices, and future product direction.

What the role requires

• Professional experience building and shipping production software.
• Experience with modern web technologies; engineering fundamentals are more important than exact stack matching.
• Feature or project ownership beyond implementation, including design, rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
• Strong product judgment and practical problem-solving focused on user impact.
• Initiative and ability to structure ambiguous problems.
• Deep practical use of AI coding agents, with judgment to ship high-quality production code.
• Track record improving software development through agentic workflows, tools, or practices.
• Clear communication and collaboration across engineering, Product, Design, QA, and other partners.
• Ability and desire to learn quickly and contribute to a fast-moving team.

Technology and practices

• The stack includes React, TypeScript, Django, Python, GraphQL, and Relay.
• AI coding tools include Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar agents.
• Engineering practices include testing, code review, technical planning, monitoring, and iterative delivery.

Workplace and location

• Fellow is remote-first and works in Eastern time.
• The role is open to candidates located in Canada.
• Optional office space is available in Ottawa and Montreal.
• Remote work is available within Canada.

What Fellow offers

• Competitive compensation, health and dental coverage, prescription coverage, and life insurance.
• Twelve weeks of parental leave at 80% of salary for any parent welcoming a child.
• Three weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, and a paid company-wide year-end break.
• Learning budgets, lunch-and-learns, and ownership of work end to end.