Remote Contract Reliability Engineer Jobs in Toronto, ON

Description
Based in Canada and headquartered in Toronto, Paramount Commerce is a fintech company focused on making payments simpler and more secure. We've been helping reshape online payments since the early 2000s, enabling people to pay directly from their bank accounts, without relying on credit cards or e-wallets.

Security, risk management, and reliability are at the core of what we do. We build payment solutions that are seamless, backed by strong safeguards and meaningful data.

As we continue to grow our business across Canada and prepare for expansion into new markets, we're looking for curious, thoughtful, data driven individuals who enjoy directly solving complex problems themselves and pushing ideas from concept to execution, in a rapid iterative environment with highly capable peers. If you're excited about building the future of payments - and want to be part of a team that's shaping what's next - we'd love to hear from you.

We're on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Merchant Identity Engineering Team in building robust, scalable, and intuitive systems that enhance the experience and engagement of our merchants. This critical role is about owning and driving complex features from design to deployment across our merchant platform, enabling seamless onboarding, management, and retention of merchants through robust technology and superior user experience. 

• End-to-End Feature Ownership: Design, build, and deliver complex, high-impact features for the merchant platform, from start to finish. You'll work from initial ambiguity, resolving and collaborating with Product to define scope and requirements, and drive your work from the initial technical design through to testing, documentation, and deployment.
• Technical Architecture & Design: Act as a key technical voice on the team. You will lead solution design discussions, architect scalable systems, write clear documentation, and make pragmatic decisions that balance iterative innovation with reliability.
• Code & Quality Excellence: Champion high SRE standards for code quality, testing, and supportability. You'll conduct thorough code reviews, provide constructive feedback, triage and debug complex issues, and participate in our on-call rotation with the rest of the team.
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor and support the growth of other engineers on the team. You'll thrive in our asynchronous remote culture, communicating with clarity on GitHub, Slack, and across Google Workspace, fostering a collaborative environment of learning.

We're looking for a senior engineer who blends strong technical depth and breadth with thoughtful collaboration and real world impact. This role is for someone who enjoys owning problems end-to-end, making sound trade offs, and building systems that impact and are visible directly to our customers.

• A Seasoned Engineer: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• A Distributed Systems Engineer: You have deep experience designing, building, and operating scalable distributed services. You naturally think about reliability, performance, and availability.
• Strong in Go & Kubernetes: You're comfortable working in Go and in containerized, cloud-based environments. Experience with Kubernetes and modern infrastructure is important.
• Fintech or Payments Experience: You bring experience in financial systems, fintech, or a strong understanding of how payments flow (ideally within Canada), and the care required when building in regulated, high stakes environments.
• Full-Lifecycle Owner: You're a T-shaped engineer who enjoys working across the full lifecycle, from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Drive Results: You take full accountability and responsibility for your area of ownership.  You like to directly drive your projects and take a high level of pride in your results. 
• Business Minded & Customer Centric: You have a healthy dose of business acumen and a deep understanding of how customers use products. You understand how technical decisions impact real people and real outcomes.
• Comfortable with Trade Offs: You can balance speed, quality, and complexity, and make thoughtful decisions in ambiguous situations.
• Level-Headed & Grounded: You bring calm to complexity. You're confident without ego, motivated, and steady in fast-paced environments.
• Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: You care deeply about doing great work, advocate for your ideas, and are equally open to new perspectives. You know how to disagree and commit in perpetuity.
• Data Informed Thinker: You like to quantify impact, use data to guide decisions, and measure outcomes.
• Highly Collaborative & a Self-Starter: You work well with others, think ahead, take initiative, and consider the broader impact of your work on the system and the business.

If everything above doesn't perfectly describe you, but you're excited to learn, adapt, and grow into new areas, we'd still love to hear from you. We value curiosity, self directed learning, and people who enjoy stretching beyond what they already know.

• Canadian Company with over 22 years of history 
• Competitive salary
• Generous defined Vacation benefits + Summer Fridays
• Health & Dental Benefits
• Wellness Spending Account
• Retirement savings matching plan
• Remote first environment 
• Quality Hardware provided to do your work 
• Parental leave top up program
• Birthday Day Off
• Quarterly Socials 
• Volunteer Days to give back to our community 

The base salary range for this full-time position is $145,000 - $190,000 CAD.

Final compensation will be dependent on experience, skillset, and role related qualifications, and will include benefits and bonus as per company policy. Please note that base salary ranges may differ based on location and local currency. 

We use technology assisted tools, including artificial intelligence, to support parts of our recruitment process (such as resume screening, note taking, and interview scheduling). These tools are designed to support, but never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions are made by humans, and we are committed to fair, inclusive, and bias-aware hiring practices.

At Paramount Commerce, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.  We practice ethical and fair hiring processes and strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds. 

We believe that different perspectives, experiences, backgrounds, and skill sets are what make for high performing teams, and we are committed to creating a place for our employees to be their authentic selves.  Don't worry if you don't check every box. If you're excited about this role and think you'd be a good fit, we encourage you to apply.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to provide the necessary support.

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Etablie au Canada et ayant son siege social a Toronto, Paramount Commerce est une entreprise de technologie financiere (fintech) axee sur la simplification et la securisation des paiements. Depuis le debut des annees 2000, nous contribuons a redefinir les paiements en ligne en permettant d'effectuer des paiements directement a partir d'un compte bancaire, sans dependre de cartes de credit ou de porte-monnaie electroniques.

La securite, la gestion des risques et la fiabilite sont au cur de nos activites. Nous concevons des solutions de paiement fluides, appuyees par des garanties solides et des donnees probantes.

Dans le cadre de notre croissance continue au Canada et en vue de notre expansion dans de nouveaux marches, nous cherchons des personnes curieuses, reflechies et axees sur les donnees qui aiment resoudre directement des problemes complexes et concretiser des idees, de la conception a l'execution, dans un environnement iteratif rapide et aux cotes de collegues hautement qualifies. Si la perspective de faconner l'avenir des paiements vous emballe et que vous souhaitez vous joindre a une equipe qui batit les solutions de demain, nous aimerions vous lire.

Nous sommes a la recherche d'une personne au poste d'ingenieure senior ou ingenieur senior en logiciel pour joindre notre equipe d'ingenierie de l'identite des marchands. Vous contribuerez a la creation de systemes robustes, evolutifs et intuitifs visant a optimiser l'experience et l'engagement de nos marchands. Ce role cle consiste a prendre en charge et a concretiser des fonctionnalites complexes, de la conception jusqu'au deploiement sur notre plateforme marchande, afin d'assurer un accueil, une gestion et une retention fluides des marchands grace a une technologie solide et une experience utilisateur superieure.

• Prise en charge complete des fonctionnalites : Concevoir, batir et livrer de bout en bout des fonctionnalites complexes et a fort impact pour la plateforme marchande. A partir de besoins initiaux parfois ambigus, vous collaborerez avec l'equipe Produit pour definir la portee et les exigences, tout en menant votre travail de la conception technique initiale jusqu'aux tests, a la documentation et au deploiement.
• Architecture et conception technique : Agir a titre de reference technique au sein de l'equipe. Vous dirigerez les discussions sur la conception de solutions, l'architecture de systemes evolutifs, la redaction d'une documentation claire et la prise de decisions pragmatiques conciliant innovation iterative et fiabilite.
• Excellence du code et de la qualite : Promouvoir des normes elevees d'ingenierie de fiabilite des sites (SRE) en matiere de qualite du code, de tests et de maintenabilite. Vous effectuerez des revues de code rigoureuses, fournirez des retroactions constructives, trierez et debuguerez des problemes complexes, tout en participant a la rotation de garde avec le reste de l'equipe.
• Mentorat et collaboration : Mentorer les membres de l'equipe d'ingenierie et soutenir leur developpement professionnel. Vous vous epanouirez dans notre culture de travail a distance et asynchrone en communiquant clairement sur GitHub, Slack et Google Workspace, favorisant un environnement d'apprentissage collaboratif.

Nous recherchons une personne d'experience possedant une grande profondeur et polyvalence technique, jumelees a un esprit collaboratif et un souci de l'impact concret. Ce role s'adresse a quelqu'un qui aime prendre en charge des problemes de bout en bout, faire des arbitrages judicieux et batir des systemes ayant une visibilite directe chez nos clients.

• Solide experience en ingenierie : Au moins 8 ans d'experience professionnelle en ingenierie logicielle.
• Expertise en systemes distribues : Solide experience dans la conception, le developpement et l'exploitation de services distribues evolutifs. Vous integrez naturellement les notions de fiabilite, de performance et de disponibilite dans votre reflexion.
• Maitrise de Go et Kubernetes : A l'aise dans un environnement de developpement en Go ainsi que dans des architectures en conteneurs et axees sur le nuage. Une experience avec Kubernetes et les infrastructures modernes est essentielle.
• Experience dans la FinTech ou les paiements : Experience des systemes financiers, de la FinTech ou une comprehension approfondie des flux de paiement (idealement au Canada), ainsi que de la rigueur requise dans des environnements reglementes et a haut risque.
• Maitrise du cycle de vie complet : Profil polyvalent (profil en T ) appreciant travailler sur l'ensemble du cycle de vie, de la conception et l'implementation jusqu'au deploiement, a la surveillance et a l'iteration.
• Culture du resultat : Pleine responsabilite des projets sous votre charge. Vous aimez piloter directement vos projets et vous en retirez une grande fierte.
• Sens des affaires et souci du client : Sens aigu des affaires et comprehension fine de la maniere dont les clients utilisent les produits. Vous mesurez l'impact des decisions techniques sur les personnes et sur les resultats concrets.
• Capacite d'arbitrage : Capacite a equilibrer rapidite, qualite et complexite, et a prendre des decisions eclairees dans des situations ambigues.
• Esprit calme et pose : Capacite a apporter de la serenite face a la complexite. Vous faites preuve d'assurance sans ego, d'une forte motivation et d'une grande stabilite dans des environnements au rythme soutenu.
• Convictions affirmees, mais ouvertes a la revision : Souci du travail bien fait, defense active de vos idees et ouverture aux nouvelles perspectives. Vous savez exprimer un desaccord tout en vous rattachant pleinement aux decisions collectives.
• Reflexion guidee par les donnees : Propension a quantifier l'impact, a utiliser les donnees pour guider les choix et a mesurer les resultats.
• Sens eleve de la collaboration et autonomie : Aptitude a bien travailler en equipe, a anticiper, a faire preuve d'initiative et a evaluer l'impact global de votre travail sur le systeme et sur l'entreprise.

Si votre profil ne correspond pas en tout point a cette description, mais que vous avez le desir d'apprendre, de vous adapter et d'evoluer vers de nouveaux domaines, nous vous invitons fortement a postuler. Nous valorisons la curiosite, l'apprentissage autonome et les personnes qui aiment repousser leurs limites.

• Entreprise canadienne comptant plus de 22 ans d'histoire
• Salaire concurrentiel
• Programme genereux de vacances payees + vendredis d'ete
• Assurance maladie et soins dentaires
• Compte de depenses consacre au bien-etre
• Regime d'epargne-retraite avec cotisation de l'employeur
• Environnement axe sur le travail a distance
• Materiel informatique de haute qualite fourni
• Programme de supplement aux prestations parentales
• Journee de conge payee pour votre anniversaire
• Activites sociales trimestrielles
• Journees de benevolat pour vous impliquer dans votre communaute

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