Staff Software Engineer, Core Applications

Staff Software Engineer, Core Applications

Level: P4
Location: Ottawa, ON | Hybrid
Reports To: Xiaokun Xu, Application Team Lead
Type: Permanent | Full-Time

About Solink

At Solink, our mission is safeguard what matters most . We provide businesses with the tools to know sooner and act faster by transforming video security into real-time operational insights.

Our cloud-based platform integrates seamlessly with your existing cameras and systems, turning them into intelligent sensors that detect and interpret key moments. This empowers teams to make data-driven decisions, enhance security, and improve operational efficiency.

Trusted by over 36,000 locations across 60+ countries - including brands like McDonald’s and JYSK - Solink delivers clarity when it counts. Our solutions help businesses reduce shrink, optimize performance, and respond proactively to potential threats.

We're growing rapidly, earning industry recognition, and scaling with purpose. We’ve been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 50™ and Fast 500™, Business Intelligence Group, and as one of Ottawa’s Best Places to Work. And we’re just getting started!

The Role

The Core Applications team owns what our customers interact with every day — the web app and the mobile app. Our web application has been running in production for over a decade, trusted by thousands of operators across countries. This isn’t a greenfield role; it’s a stewardship role.

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Core Applications (P4) who takes genuine pride in the quality, reliability, and feel of software that people actually depend on. At this level, you’re trusted to set technical direction across web, mobile, and API layers, to be a strategic collaborator on team- and org-wide initiatives, and to mentor colleagues both within Core Applications and cross-functionally. You’ll work across a React/TypeScript web app and a React Native mobile app, owning features end-to-end from design through delivery. You build APIs, ship UI, write tests, monitor production, and come back the next day looking for what to improve next. You care about the craft: clean code, thoughtful API design, smooth UI, and a codebase future teammates will thank you for. You’re also AI-native, you use AI tools as a force multiplier and bring that mindset into everything you do.

What You’ll Do

• Build and improve features across the web (React/TypeScript) and mobile (React Native/Expo) applications, constantly raising the bar on what “good” looks like for our customers

• Own features end-to-end, collaborate with product and design, design and implement APIs, write the code, write the tests, ship it, monitor it

• Drive architecture and technical direction across web, mobile, and API layers, and document key decisions so they scale beyond you

• Drive meaningful improvements to stability, performance, and UX, identifying and eliminating pain points proactively, not just reactively

• Design and build APIs in NestJS/TypeScript that power rich, responsive experiences across web and mobile

• Leverage AI tools to move faster and write better code, treating AI assistants as a core part of your workflow for coding, debugging, code review, and research

• Raise the bar on code quality through thoughtful code reviews, targeted refactoring, and knowledge sharing

• Triage and resolve bugs with urgency and care, minimizing customer impact

• Act as a strategic collaborator on technical decisions regarding architecture, tooling, and patterns within the applications team

• Mentor and support teammates, including more junior & senior engineers and cross-functional partners, share what you know and lift the team

Role Expectations

This is a P4 - Staff level role. At Solink, individuals at this level are strategic collaborators who set technical direction, mentor across and beyond their immediate team, and can be relied on to drive team- and org-wide initiatives with minimal direction.

In this role, you’ll be expected to:

• Strategize with teammates and leaders cross-functionally on key Core Applications initiatives

• Lead projects end-to-end, keeping key stakeholders informed and anticipating issues before they block delivery

• Coach and mentor other engineers through complex problems, and give constructive, direct feedback

• Build frameworks, standards, and tooling that scale the team’s effectiveness beyond any single feature

• Continuously grow your own expertise and share learnings back with the team

What success looks like:

• Web and mobile applications that are measurably more stable, performant, and pleasant to use

• A codebase and set of engineering practices that the rest of the team points to as the standard