Staff Engineer
Wave HQ
Software Engineering
Canada
CAD 180k-188k / year
Posted on Jan 31, 2026
At Wave, we help small businesses to thrive so the heart of our communities beats stronger. We work in an environment buzzing with creative energy and inspiration. No matter where you are or how you get the job done, you have what you need to be successful and connected. The mark of true success at Wave is the ability to be bold, learn quickly and share your knowledge generously.
Staff Engineers work in cross-functional teams alongside Engineers, Product Managers and Designers to bring their engineering skills to bear on exciting business challenges. They work collaboratively to solve tough problems in delivering world-class financial products to our customers at scale with a wide variety of technologies and help investigate new ones as we are constantly striving to keep our technology choices up to date. While Staff Engineers still work with their own team, significant time may be spent on projects that encompass a larger group.
Here's How You Make an Impact:
- Writing clear, concise, elegant, and well-tested code in Python, Ruby, and/or JavaScript.
- Working as part of a small, agile, integrated product team that’s focused on continual improvement of their skills and helping each other learn new things.
- Learning new technical skills with tools or frameworks needed to execute on tasks.
- Delivering code that goes beyond what is strictly assigned.
- Requiring little support to deliver on well-defined tasks.
- Substantial impact on the entire team’s pace and quality of deliverables;
- Taking complete ownership of major initiatives or complex tasks from definition to delivery.
- By taking responsibility for monitoring or alerts needed to support and maintain new initiatives post-launch
- Having a substantial impact on the entire team’s pace and quality of deliverables.
- Taking complete ownership of major initiatives or complex tasks from definition to delivery.
- Providing a level of expertise and skill that has an impact on the quality of software delivery outside their immediate team, while still being primarily focused on the delivery of their own team.
- Substantially improves the quality of software delivery for all of Engineering;
- By working with other leaders at Wave to understand larger business needs and initiating projects to meet.
- By resolving technical disagreements among multiple teams in the service of Wave-wide objectives.
- By contributing to the vision and strategy for Engineering at Wave.
- By introducing new technology to Wave’s supported set, understanding how to assess the pros and cons of such, and engaging the necessary stakeholders to drive the decision.
You Thrive Here by Possessing the Following:
- 10+ years experience as an application developer or equivalent experience on a developer tools team.
- Mastery of some combination of Python, Ruby, JavaScript and/or other computer languages.
- Experience with observability and alerting tools such as Datadog and PagerDuty.
- Experience in developer education by producing written documentation.
- Are knowledgeable about what makes a great developer experience and have the ability to improve it by configuring or creating tools and scripts.
- Have experience in Terraform configuration.
- Have experience in Kafka configuration for applications.
- Understand container orchestration from an application developers point of view.
- Have experience across entire ecosystems from Local dev all the way through to Production.
- Enjoy continually learning and using new technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS Lambda.
- Are passionate and knowledgeable about engineering excellence and have the ability to educate others through written documentation, example code and presentations.
- Occasional requirement to be on-call outside of standard hours.
At Wave, we value diversity of perspective. Your unique experience enriches our organization. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Let’s talk about how you can thrive here!
Wave is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible candidate experience. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careers@waveapps.com. We will work with you to meet your needs.
Please note that we use AI-assisted note-taking in interviews for transcription purposes only. This helps ensure interviewers can remain fully present and engaged throughout the discussion.
This advertised posting is a current vacancy.
180000 - 188000 CAD a year
Final compensation is determined based on experience, expertise, and role alignment. Most candidates are hired within the middle of the range, with the upper end reserved for those bringing exceptional depth, impact, and immediate autonomy.
We also offer:
- Bonus Structure
- Employer-paid Benefits Plan
- Health & Wellness Flex Account
- Professional Development Account
- Wellness Days
- Holiday Shutdown
- Wave Days (extra vacation days in the summer)
- Get A-Wave Program (work from anywhere in the world up to 90 days)
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