[Hiring] Staff Platform Engineer @Acquird.io

Role Description

Full-time, remote-first (significant Eastern Time overlap)

Location: Remote in Canada (with preference for candidates based in the GTA/Toronto)

Comp: $200,000-$250,000 base CAD + equity

This role sits on our platform team: designing, building, and maintaining the backend APIs and services the rest of engineering builds on, as our AI workflow platform scales to many times its current surface. Sample projects include:

• Building a unified API for our insights data
• Storing metrics from our data providers at scale

The stack is Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, with React on the frontend.

We're remote by default with real in-person time: product, engineering, and design get together for a focused build week every couple of months, plus a summer retreat.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and maintaining large-scale software applications, with recent years operating at a Staff or Lead IC level: setting technical direction, not just executing it
• A track record of taking products from 0 to 1, ideally at Series A to C startups
• You raise an engineering team's bar: design reviews, mentoring, and standards other engineers adopt
• Comfort with a fast pace: short project cycles, evolving requirements, high ownership
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, including translating technical issues into business impact
• Experience building or integrating LLM-powered product features or agent systems
• Able to work with significant overlap to Eastern Time

Requirements

• You've architected backend systems that other teams build on, owning the service boundaries, data models, and API contracts in production (Node.js and TypeScript; strong engineers from similar stacks transfer well)
• You've led complex, multi-engineer backend projects from design through production, and been the technical decision-maker when trade-offs were contested
• AI-native development habits: you direct AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) through much of your output, and rigorously review and own what ships
• You've designed asynchronous, event-driven systems (queues, background jobs, messaging) that run under real production load, not just consumed them
• You've owned hard third-party integrations end to end, including auth, rate limits, retries, and failure modes (ad-platform APIs like Meta's are a plus)
• You've simplified data architecture at scale: schema design, ETL pipelines, and storage choices (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other document stores) that held up as data volume grew

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including equity for all employees
• Health benefits from day one
• Monthly health and lifestyle stipend, 20 days PTO, and a $1,500 work-from-home stipend
• Remote-first with optional office hubs, in-person build weeks every two months, and a summer retreat
• We have a Toronto based office Hub for those wishing to meet in person