Staff Software Engineer

Join our extraordinary team. We're a rapidly growing global tech company headquartered in Canada, in the heart of downtown Toronto, with an office in Leeds, UK, and remote ecopeeps in the US. You'll join the Energy Software Engineering leadership team alongside five Engineering Managers, reporting directly to the Sr Director of Engineering. The team collectively owns the software that keeps millions of homes comfortable, efficient, and connected. This role follows a hybrid schedule, with in-office work required on Wednesdays and Thursdays from our Toronto office to support collaboration, and flexibility to work remotely for the remainder of the week.

Responsibilities

Strengthen our AI enablement foundations to accelerate adoption of agentic workflows within our engineering teams; Partner with principal and staff engineers to improve our engineering practices; Contribute to ecobee’s system architecture with designs that have been battle-tested, resulting in significant, long-lasting impact within a specific domain; Take end-to-end ownership of full components within your domain of expertise, ensuring that their design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations meet high standards; Consistently deliver high-quality, maintainable code and lead by example in debugging tough, stack-wide issues, finding root causes, and implementing effective solutions; Anticipate future challenges and propose technical solutions that prevent future roadblocks; Actively mentor other engineers, guiding them toward concrete goals and fostering a culture of feedback and knowledge sharing; Drive innovative improvements to processes and best practices across the engineering organization; Facilitate and lead discussions across squads, ensuring inclusive decision-making processes and cross-functional buy-in on technical solutions and business decisions

Requirements

10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of owning and delivering complex, cross-domain projects at scale; Experience in building agentic workflows in large-scale systems; Expertise in system design, architecture, and the development of large-scale, high-availability and secure systems; Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks including Go, Java, TypeScript, C++, Python, etc.; AI forward thinker who models how an AI-First engineer could work; Expertise in messaging queue processing (e.g., PubSub, RabbitMQ, Kafka) and real-time data handling; Experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS; Experience optimizing database performance and system tuning, ensuring that database and application interactions are fast, reliable, and scalable; Demonstrated ability to debug tough, stack-wide issues across multiple environments, finding root causes and implementing long-term fixes; Demonstrated ability to mentor, lead technical discussions, and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture; Strong debugging skills, with experience solving complex, stack-wide issues that involve mobile devices and cloud-based services; The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check

Benefits

Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental and vision plans; Life, long-term disability, flexible spending and health savings accounts; Accrued paid time off; Paid holidays (10 for Ontario, 11 for British Columbia); RRSP retirement benefits; Eligible for variable compensation including short term and long-term incentives