Lead SWE

Lead SWE | ON SITE TORONTO MUST BE ON SITE. REMOTE WILL BE IGNORED | $130,000 – $210,000 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