Staff Software Engineer

Junip is looking for a Staff Software Engineer who wants to help shoppers make the right purchasing decisions when shopping online.

The Junip product We operate a review platform at significant scale (10,000+ customers / merchants, tens of millions of shoppers / reviews). We also have new agentic product that is growing quickly. They both work together to help shoppers make purchasing decisions when buying from ecommerce stores.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement new features end to end, primarily using Rails and React
• Solve performance and infrastructure challenges to scale while improving speed & reliability
• Actively collaborate with CX and other team members to fold learnings back into the product experience
• Keep a high quality bar for the Junip codebase & product while moving quickly

Some of the technology you'll work with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, RubyLLM, Vector DB(s), Redis, Sidekiq, AWS etc

Need to have

• Experience building web applications at significant scale, ideally in Ruby on Rails and/or adjacent technologies
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, crafting maintainable code
• Comfort & eagerness to ship to production daily
• Confidence in crafting public APIs, leveraging webhooks and building scalable services (finding solutions to N+1 query problems, maintaining endpoint speed and reliability)
• Excellent written communication, able to clearly articulate complex ideas / plans
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate both your pace & quality of software development

Nice to have

• Experience building for ecommerce merchants
• Experience building agentic tools

Important things to know

• Competitive benefits, PTO & compensation
• We’re a small team
• Profitable + growing
• We have an office in Kitchener
• Day to day is typically flexible/remote
• Need to be EST, Canada, preference for candidates within 2 hours of Kitchener-Waterloo (London, Toronto, Hamilton etc)