Lead Software Engineer
CivTiq ·
senior
Salary Range (USD)
$130k - $180k
Location
Toronto, Canada
Visa Support
Not mentioned
Funding Stage
Unknown
Job Responsibilities
- • Building enterprise‑grade, white‑label reporting infrastructure for municipal governments across North America
- • Making full technical decisions
- • Designing multi‑tenant cloud architecture supporting Canadian data residency requirements
- • Building compliance framework (SOC 2, PIPEDA, MFIPPA, other security standards)
- • Technical hiring as the team grows
- • Ensuring uptime SLA commitments
Required Skills
5+ years in cloud infrastructure or backend engineeringExperience with multi‑tenant architecture and data residencyExperience with uptime SLA commitmentsHands‑on with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PIPEDA or equivalent regulated environmentsAbility to review and challenge AI‑generated code and architectural decisionsAbility to represent the technical platform for government IT evaluatorsComfortable inheriting existing TypeScript/Node.js/PostgreSQL codebase
Engineering Culture & Tech Stack
TypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQL
ownership
customer‑focused
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CivTiq | Lead SWE | Toronto | $130,000 – $180,000 CAD |
Founder-level equity |
Founder with 3x successful exits|
We are building enterprise-grade, white-label reporting infrastructure for municipal governments across North America.
Full technical decisions
Multi-tenant cloud architecture supporting Canadian data residency requirements
Compliance framework buildout: SOC 2, PIPEDA, MFIPPA, security standards relevant to Canadian municipal procurement
Technical hiring as team grows
5+ years in cloud infrastructure or backend engineering with direct exposure to multi-tenant architecture, data residency, and uptime SLA commitments
Shipped production systems where a bug has legal or compliance consequences
Hands-on with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PIPEDA, or equivalent regulated environments
Can review and challenge AI-generated code and architectural decisions. Not threatened by AI tooling, not blindly trusting it
Can represent the technical platform for government IT evaluators
Comfortable inheriting existing TypeScript / Node.js / PostgreSQL codebase
Located in Toronto or willing to relocate
ben [at] civtiq [dot] com
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