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Lead Software Engineer
Location: Toronto, ON (Must be on-site; remote applications will be ignored)
Compensation: $130,000 – $210,000 CAD + Founder-level equity
Source: Hacker News
About the Role
We are building enterprise-grade, white-label reporting infrastructure for municipal governments across North America. You will be working directly with a founder who has 3x successful exits.
Responsibilities
- Own full technical decision-making.
- Design and maintain multi-tenant cloud architecture supporting Canadian data residency requirements.
- Lead compliance framework buildout, including SOC 2, PIPEDA, MFIPPA, and security standards relevant to Canadian municipal procurement.
- Manage technical hiring as the team grows.
- Represent the technical platform for government IT evaluators.
Requirements
- 5+ years in cloud infrastructure or backend engineering with direct exposure to multi-tenant architecture, data residency, and uptime SLA commitments.
- Experience shipping production systems where bugs have legal or compliance consequences.
- Hands-on experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PIPEDA, or equivalent regulated environments.
- Ability to review and challenge AI-generated code and architectural decisions; not threatened by AI tooling, but not blindly trusting it.
- Comfortable inheriting and working with an existing TypeScript / Node.js / PostgreSQL codebase.
- Located in Toronto or willing to relocate.
How to Apply
Please reach out to: ben [at] civtiq [dot] com