Senior Software Engineer (Full-Time, Remote) — Canada Salary: CAD $140,000–$165,000 / year
Work Schedule: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
About the role
At AutoScale Ventures , we build large-scale systems behind products like VinAudit.ca (vehicle history and data) and SquidProxies.com (proxy infrastructure). We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve the backend systems that power these data-heavy products in production.
You'll be designing and developing critical backend components and guiding other engineers through execution. If you enjoy owning systems end to end, from design through long-term support, this role is for you.
What you'll do
Design, build, and evolve backend systems that power data-heavy production products such as market feeds, crawlers, APIs, and data pipelines.
- Take ownership of major backend initiatives across their full lifecycle — design, development and implementation, rollout, and long-term maintenance and support.
- Write and maintain scalable APIs and backend services used at meaningful scale.
- Lead architectural improvements and redesigns of existing systems to improve reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Break complex designs into executable components and delegate effectively when working with other engineers.
- Collaborate with leadership and senior engineers on technical direction.
- Mentor developers through code reviews, design discussions, and best practices.
What we're looking for
5+ years of professional software engineering or architectural experience (or equivalent depth).
- A proven track record of building backend systems from scratch, launching them into production, and supporting and evolving them over time.
- Experience designing and operating APIs or backend systems at scale.
- Strong systems thinking — you can reason about performance, failure modes, scaling, and long-term maintainability.
- Experience in startup or startup-like environments, or owning major systems within larger companies.
- Comfort working autonomously and making high-impact technical decisions.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, code-generation and review tools) to support productivity and code quality.
Nice to have
Python experience.
- Experience redesigning or evolving legacy systems.
- Background in data-heavy systems (crawlers, feeds, ingestion pipelines, analytics backends).
- Infrastructure or scaling experience (high-throughput systems, reliability, performance tuning).
- Experience mentoring mid-level and senior developers.
How we work
This is a fully remote role open to candidates across Canada. We work daily within 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM U