Developer, Backend

Staff Developer, Backend

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Remote Canada

Reporting To: Cory Thomas

Compensation: $144,000 - $216,000 / year

At Agency Analytics, our Staff Developers are T-shaped: you operate broadly across multiple technical domains but also dive deep into specific problem areas when needed. You're part strategist, part builder, part mentor, and you’re just as comfortable writing production code as you are setting architectural direction.

As a Staff Developer, you can expect to be brought into initiatives at the strategy and discovery phases to ideate on what’s possible. You’ll experiment and drive new changes to existing system architectures. You’ll be a coach and mentor to our engineering team. You’ll set the operating rhythm to balance high efficiency with high quality, along with other Staff Developers and technical leaders.

• Your time will be divided between leading cross-functional technical projects, building and reviewing architectures.
• You’ll be setting and driving coding standards, technical processes, and tooling across engineering.
• You’ll drive AI tool adoption across Engineering.
• You'll prioritize and work on multiple projects from start to finish, balancing quality, stability and project delivery.
• Through code reviews and mentoring, you'll set a high-quality bar. You’ll also actively look for ways to improve the overall quality of our codebase.
• You'll work across teams to promote an open, collaborative approach to architecture, technical patterns, and complex problem-solving.

• You’ve got 8+ years of SaaS application development experience under your belt, with a track record of leading technical initiatives to successful outcomes.
• You’ve previously held a Staff Developer or higher title, and you’re ready to hit the ground running at that level.
• You’ve embraced AI coding tools like Claude, using them daily.
• You’re hands‑on and can go deep on backend technologies (PHP or similar).
• You’ve architected complex systems, balancing performance, scale, and developer experience.
• You're fluent in performance best practices, and you know how to monitor and optimize for the user experience.
• You have closely collaborated with other Staff on foundational engineering decisions and product development.
• You thrive in ambiguity and can operate at different levels, from system architecture down to pair programming with a junior dev.

Compensation is determined by factors such as market data within Canada, technical skills, relevant experience, demonstrated impact, and internal pay equity.

Beyond salary, we invest in your growth, well-being, and long-term success through:

• Stock options and variable compensation
• 4 weeks vacation, 5 personal days, and your birthday off (we want to celebrate with you!)
• Comprehensive benefits from day one, plus an annual HSA/WSA spending account
• RRSP matching to support your future
• Annual learning and development budget, plus a book budget
• Parental leave top-ups
• & many more!!