Staff/Principal/Lead Software Engineer
Augmentt
Software Engineering
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Posted on Jul 2, 2025
Position: Staff / Principal / Lead Software Engineer (Remote - Canada)
We’re looking for an experienced software engineering expert to help us design and deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions as part of a small, high-performing team. You can join us remotely from anywhere in Canada or work onsite in our Ottawa office - your choice.
As a Staff/Principal/Lead Engineer, you won’t just write code - you’ll help shape product strategy, set technical direction, and mentor others. If you’re passionate about modern architecture, love solving hard problems, and want to have a real impact on product and culture, we want to talk.
What You’ll Be Doing
We’re looking for an experienced software engineering expert to help us design and deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions as part of a small, high-performing team. You can join us remotely from anywhere in Canada or work onsite in our Ottawa office - your choice.
As a Staff/Principal/Lead Engineer, you won’t just write code - you’ll help shape product strategy, set technical direction, and mentor others. If you’re passionate about modern architecture, love solving hard problems, and want to have a real impact on product and culture, we want to talk.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Drive design and architecture of scalable, resilient systems across our product suite.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers and UX Designers to define and deliver elegant solutions to customer problems.
- Lead proof-of-concept development and evaluate new technologies or architectural approaches.
- Mentor and pair with other engineers to level up the team’s capabilities.
- Oversee large refactoring efforts and guide the resolution of complex, system-level technical issues.
- Participate in code reviews and support production systems as needed.
- Deep experience building and maintaining modern, cloud-native applications - ideally with AWS and JavaScript (Node.js, React, etc.).
- Hands-on expertise with services like Lambda, S3, API Gateway, SQS, and similar.
- Proven ability to lead engineering projects and influence architecture and technical direction.
- Comfort working across the stack, from front-end components to infrastructure automation to database modeling.
- A strong sense of ownership - you drive initiatives from inception to production.
- Experience in fast-paced, product-focused environments, with a bias toward delivering value quickly.
- Bonus: Experience with ElasticSearch, CI/CD pipelines, security best practices, and DevOps fundamentals.
- Language: JavaScript (Node.js, React)
- Cloud: AWS (Serverless-first mindset)
- Databases: MySQL, ElasticSearch
- Tooling: GitHub (incl Actions), AWS SAM & CDK, CloudWatch
- Autonomy & Impact: Small team, big responsibilities. You’ll influence everything from architecture to user experience.
- Modern Tech: We move fast, embrace serverless, and experiment with new technologies.
- Customer Focused: We care deeply about solving real-world problems for our users.
- Continuous Learning: We invest in growing our people, not just our product.
- Flexible Work: Work remotely from anywhere in Canada, or join us in Ottawa.
- Deliver Fast, Deliver Well: Ship frequently, learn constantly.
- Own It: From concept to production - you’re accountable.
- Move With Curiosity: Try things, test assumptions, and evolve.
- Customer First: We succeed when our customers succeed