Staff Software Engineer, Partnerships

Job Description

• This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Partnerships in Canada. This is a high-impact engineering leadership opportunity focused on shaping the future of large-scale partnership integrations and embedded digital experiences. In this role, you will drive the technical vision and architecture behind strategic partner ecosystems, building scalable platforms that support seamless integrations across consumer-facing products and services. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional engineering, product, and external partner teams to create resilient systems that power identity, cart, checkout, and orchestration workflows. The position offers significant ownership, technical influence, and visibility across multiple business domains. Ideal candidates thrive in fast-moving environments, enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges, and are passionate about building reusable platforms that scale efficiently. This role combines strategic thinking, hands-on technical leadership, and collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Accountabilities: Lead the technical architecture and long-term strategy for partnership and embedded platform integrations. Design scalable backend systems and reusable integration frameworks that enable rapid onboarding of new partners. Build and optimize platform capabilities across identity, cart, checkout, attribution, and orchestration services. Define clear API contracts, service boundaries, and technical standards to support reliable and maintainable integrations. Collaborate closely with product, mobile, growth, payments, fulfillment, and platform engineering teams to align roadmaps and technical priorities. Drive cross-functional initiatives and translate business requirements into actionable technical execution plans. Improve system reliability, scalability, observability, and performance across user-facing distributed systems. Mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and contribute to engineering best practices across teams. Partner directly with external engineering teams and stakeholders to support integration success and long-term platform evolution. Requirements: 8+ years of experience in software engineering with strong expertise in backend or full stack distributed systems. Proven experience operating in Staff-level or technical leadership roles within large-scale engineering environments. Deep understanding of APIs, distributed architectures, system reliability, observability, and performance optimization. Experience designing scalable integration frameworks, partner ecosystems, or multi-tenant platforms. Strong knowledge of user-facing systems such as identity, checkout, payments, or cart workflows. Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical execution in ambiguous, fast-changing environments. Excellent cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills. Experience working with external partners, business teams, or enterprise integrations is highly valued. Strong communication, strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities. Experience within marketplace, logistics, payments, subscriptions, or platform-based technology environments is considered a plus. Benefits: Competitive compensation package with equity and annual refresh grants. Flexible remote-first work environment with strong work-life balance support. Opportunity to work on highly visible and business-critical platform initiatives. Access to collaborative in-person events and community-building activities. Career growth opportunities in a rapidly evolving technology environment. Comprehensive health and wellness benefits. Inclusive and diverse workplace culture focused on innovation and collaboration. Exposure to cutting-edge distributed systems and large-scale partner integrations. Supportive environment that encourages ownership, creativity, and technical leadership.
• How Jobgether works: We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team. We appreciate your interest and wish you the best! Why Apply Through Jobgether? Data Privacy Notice: By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Jobgether will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy and share relevant information with the hiring employer. This processing is based on legitimate interest and pre-contractual measures under applicable data protection laws (including GDPR). You may exercise your rights (access, rectification, erasure, objection) at any time. #LI-CL1
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