Senior Software Engineer (Vancouver)

You are a strong senior full-stack software engineer with a proven track record of shipping and operating production systems at scale. You bring strong technical judgment, a high bar for quality, and the ability to lead complex initiatives end to end. You are comfortable working across frontend and backend systems, influencing architecture, and guiding teams through ambiguity.

What you’ll do

• Lead the design, development, testing, and release of production features across the Rival product suite
• Own feature epics from discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, and iteration
• Build across frontend and backend systems in a modern JavaScript and TypeScript stack
• Partner with Product and Design to shape requirements, clarify trade‑offs, and drive execution plans for complex initiatives
• Set and uphold a high bar for code quality, performance, security, reliability, and user experience
• Improve test coverage, CI reliability, tooling, and overall developer experience
• Drive technical design reviews and produce clear written design documentation
• Identify risks and dependencies early and communicate mitigation strategies
• Debug and resolve issues across the full stack, including cloud environments and production systems
• Influence architectural decisions and long‑term technical direction
• Raise the bar through thoughtful code reviews, mentorship, and coaching
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and overall team development

AI and Modern Development Practices

• Apply strong judgment to AI behavior, correctness, privacy, security, and reliability risks
• Design evaluation strategies for AI features using test suites, human review, metrics, and monitoring
• Establish best practices for AI integration, including guardrails, validation, observability, and maintainability
• Use AI‑assisted development tools to improve engineering speed and quality
• Collaborate cross‑functionally on AI requirements such as telemetry, user feedback loops, and model performance tracking

What you’ll have

• 7+ years of professional experience building and operating production software systems
• Strong full‑stack expertise across frontend and backend development
• Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives or epics end to end
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including architecture, testing strategy, performance, and reliability
• Experience building or integrating AI‑enabled product features such as LLM workflows, retrieval systems, agent‑style architectures, or automated decision support
• Ability to evaluate and improve AI feature quality using structured testing, monitoring, and feedback mechanisms
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Experience working in cloud‑based environments, preferably AWS
• Familiarity with serverless and/or microservices architectures from an application perspective
• Ability to reason about and debug issues across the full stack

Technology Stack & Tools

• Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js
• Frontend: React, Redux, Next.js, Styled Components
• Backend & APIs: Express, GraphQL
• Data & Storage: PostgreSQL, Redis or Valkey, MongoDB
• Messaging & Search: Kafka, Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Cloud: AWS (application‑level experience); CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform (working knowledge)
• Testing: Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, Vitest, Cucumber
• Collaboration Tools: Atlassian Jira and Confluence, Agile workflows, Scrum ceremonies

Benefits

• Salary range: $120,000 to $150,000
• Home office, Internet, and cell phone stipends
• RRSP plan with employer matching
• Parental leave top‑up
• Hybrid working model and home office benefits
• Comprehensive paid time off covering vacation, sick, and personal days
• Extended health and dental plan
• Health spending account
• Generous sick, personal, and mental health days, including $1,000 annual mental health benefits with Canada Life

You must be eligible to work in Canada. Rival is a proud equal‑opportunity workplace committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. All applicants, regardless of race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other protected characteristic, are welcome.

All candidates will be required to undergo a background check as part of our hiring process.