Staff Software Engineer, Core Applications

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Build features across React/TypeScript web and React Native/Expo mobile apps, owning work from design through release and monitoring.
• Design NestJS/TypeScript APIs, write tests, monitor production, and improve stability, performance, and user experience.
• Set and document architecture and technical direction across application layers; lead projects and anticipate delivery blockers.
• Use AI tools for coding, debugging, review, and research; raise code quality through reviews, refactoring, and knowledge sharing.
• Triage bugs, collaborate on architecture and tooling decisions, and mentor engineers and cross-functional partners.
• Build frameworks, standards, and tools that increase team effectiveness.

Must-have qualifications

• Strong production TypeScript and React experience; familiarity with mature products is emphasized.
• Full-stack ownership, including REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, and tracing issues across the stack.
• End-to-end architecture ownership across web, mobile, and APIs, including documentation practices that scale.
• Experience improving a mature customer-facing product and understanding of web and mobile performance trade-offs.
• Active use of AI tools to accelerate software work.
• Ability to trace bugs across UI, API, and database layers and explain root causes clearly.
• Clear communication, product judgment, cross-functional collaboration, self-direction, and comfort with ambiguity.

Preferred qualifications

• Hands-on React Native experience is a nice-to-have; mobile app experience should account for differences between web and native rendering.
• Automated testing experience with tools such as Jest, Detox, Playwright, or similar is preferred.
• Mobile CI/CD and App Store or Play Store release pipeline exposure is preferred.
• Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into user-facing products is preferred.
• NestJS or another Node.js backend framework is preferred; NestJS is described as a bonus.
• Video streaming, security camera systems, or POS/retail technology experience is a nice-to-have.

Security requirements

• Candidates must undergo a criminal records check upon hire.
• Candidates must be Canadian citizens, including dual citizens, or eligible to work in Canada.
• Candidates must comply with Solink security policies and standards.

Compensation and benefits

• Compensation range: $138,445 to $173,056; cadence is not stated.
• Full-time, permanent employees receive equity; benefits include paid health and dental coverage and a $500 health spending account.
• Monthly reimbursement is available for fitness, wellness, or mental health programs.

Workplace

• The role is hybrid in Ottawa, Ontario.
• The technical panel interview is in person; this describes the interview process, not a separate work arrangement.

About Solink

Hiring process

• The process may include a talent-team call, hiring-manager interview, technical panel, CTO interviews, reference checks, and an offer.
• The posting says AI may be used to screen, assess, or select candidates, with human judgment retained in hiring decisions.