At Homebase, you’ll join a team that’s bold, fast-moving, and obsessed with helping small businesses thrive. We build with empathy, act with urgency, and take big swings that drive real-world impact. Here, every Homie shows up to raise the bar, support one another, and celebrate wins as a team. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend-Focused, to join our Mobile Platform team, the group responsible for the shared services, backend architecture, and platform capabilities that power Homebase’s next-generation mobile experiences.
Requirements
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in Ruby on Rails that power cross-team mobile workflows, including authentication, messaging, permissions, user actions, and notification routing.
- Drive architectural design across platform services—evaluating tradeoffs, improving service boundaries, and enabling a more modular, resilient backend ecosystem.
- Consolidate user requests into a centralized action board, enabling our mobile app to surface, prioritize, and automate managerial tasks.
- Partner deeply with Mobile Platform engineers to create seamless API contracts, improve release triage processes, and support platform-wide backend reliability.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize query patterns, improve caching strategies, and elevate observability across critical services.
- Improve developer velocity by refining technical standards, improving documentation, simplifying service integration points, and enabling other teams to build on top of platform services.
- Mentor engineers on backend fundamentals, architectural decision-making, and operational excellence.
- Apply AI tools to accelerate engineering workflows—including code generation, testing, debugging, documentation, observability insights, and prototyping.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and partner engineering teams to ship impactful customer experiences with speed and quality.
Benefits
- Ownership & Savings: Stock options + TFSA/RRSP with 4% company match
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
- Time Flexibility: Flex time off + company holidays + designated focus periods
- Family Support: Maternity/Parental Leave EI top-up support offered (after 6 months of service)
- Work Your Way: Work From Anywhere Month + meeting-free weeks yearly
- Protection Plans: Life insurance + short/long-term disability coverage
- Workspace Perks: Meals provided, team offsites, and Customer Days
