Engineering Assistant I

You help set technical strategy across teams and deliver it through direct implementation, broad technical leadership, or both.

As a Staff Engineer, you drive the technical roadmap multiple teams build against, and you're accountable for it landing. You influence peers and senior leadership to get behind it. Your depth spans the whole stack, frontend through data, and you use that breadth to define SLAs and observability standards. You own technical debt management and give technical direction that balances what we need to ship this quarter against what we need to still be true in three years.

You raise the bar of the whole engineering team through mentorship, design review, and pairing

9+ years of professional experience with a strong record in software development, testing, software design, and architecture.

• Very deep knowledge of a full production stack: frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data. Track record of owning a multi-quarter technical roadmap that spanned more than one team, including securing buy-in from engineering peers and senior leadership and driving it to completion.
• Experience managing technical debt as an explicit program of work: quantifying it, prioritizing it, making the business and developer-experience case to leadership, and landing it in a roadmap alongside product commitments.
• Experience designing and operating B2B API integrations: authentication, rate limiting, retries, idempotency, versioning, and contract evolution.
• Track record of mentoring senior engineers, not just junior ones, including through architectural thinking and not only code review.
• Experience with CI tooling, Docker, and cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience evaluating and rolling out developer tooling, including AI-assisted development tools, with a clear view of where they earn their keep and where they introduce risk to code quality, review discipline, or data handling.
• Deep Python and Django experience building production services
• A degree in Computer Science or a related field

Lead the design and implementation of multiple significant technical initiatives in parallel, staying hands-on in the code and the architecture.

Provide technical direction that balances short-term delivery against long-term sustainability, and make sure architectural decisions across teams remain consistent over time.

Own technical debt management. Use forums such as Architecture Office Hours, Lunch and Learns, internal talks, and the wiki to spread context, enforce industry best practices, and keep teams aligned to the technical roadmap.

Mentor engineers across the department, including senior engineers, in partnership with their managers. Act as a quality gatekeeper through active code review and testing strategy, and deliberately enable other engineers to become effective reviewers and gatekeepers themselves.

With a global presence in North America and Asia-Pacific, Vantage enables retailers to launch and grow their media networks through scalable technology and automated workflows, and is trusted by leading retailers like The Home Depot to power their retail media programs.

Remote-First, Based in Toronto

Vantage is proudly headquartered in Toronto, but we’re a remote-first team spread across North America (and beyond). Our flexible work philosophy means team members can thrive from wherever they do their best work—whether that’s from a home office, a local café, or while adding stamps to their passport. With a remote-friendly setup, home office support, and annual company retreats, we stay connected, collaborative, and energized—no matter the time zone.

Vantage’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Vantage Analytics is fueled by the diversity of our talented employees. We promote equality and strive to provide all current and prospective employees with support and opportunities. This may include using AI to help organize, screen, and assess applications. As part of the final stages of our hiring process, all candidates will be required to successfully complete a criminal background check.