Senior Software Engineer, Core Product (Hybrid)

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Product team, you’ll build the products small business owners rely on every single day: Scheduling, HR Management (HRM), and Payroll. You ship fast, own what you ship, and make the people around you better. You’ll work alongside Product, Design, and Data, and you’ll build the AI-first way. As an E3, you’ll lead projects end to end and grow your impact across the team.

Responsibilities

Ship end to end: Design, build, and launch features across Scheduling, HRM, and Payroll, and stay with them in production; Build it right: Deliver reliable, testable, maintainable code where accuracy matters, from hours worked to dollars paid; Connect the domains: Solve problems where Scheduling, Time Tracking, HRM, and Payroll meet, and make those seams invisible to customers; Be Customer Obsessed: Stay close to the small business owners and workers who use what you build, and fix what hurts them first; Build AI-first: Use AI and agentic tools daily across design, code, tests, and reviews, and share the workflows that work; Raise the bar: Give sharp code reviews, advance Homebase engineering standards, and mentor the engineers around you; Partner closely: Work with PMs, Designers, and Data to shape what we build and how fast we learn; Your scope: Lead the implementation of components and services, own estimates and delivery, and bring junior engineers along

Requirements

Strong software engineering fundamentals and a record of shipping production software that customers depend on; Ideal candidate brings a strong background in Ruby on Rails; Craft you can show: clean design, solid tests, and thoughtful trade-offs; Comfort working in a high-velocity environment where shipping fast and iterating matters; Clear communicator who works well with Product, Design, and Data; Active AI fluency: you use AI tools daily to improve your own work and can show the impact; Leads implementation of components or services and delivers projects end to end; Owns estimation, execution, and iterative improvement; Mentors junior engineers; Retool your own workflows with AI to raise velocity and quality, and measure the impact; Share the AI workflows that work with your team and help others try them; Know when AI creates real leverage and when it adds noise, and keep human judgment on every change you ship

Nice to have

Experience with payroll, scheduling, workforce management, or similarly complex business domains

Benefits

Stock options; TFSA/RRSP with 4% company match; Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents; Flexible PTO + company holidays + designated focus periods; Paid AI tools with minimal restrictions; Maternity/Parental Leave EI top-up support offered (after 6 months of service); Work From Anywhere Month + meeting-free weeks yearly; Life insurance + short/long-term disability coverage; Meals provided, team offsites, and Customer Days