At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and optimize high-performance data workflows for complex calculations.
- Company: Join Syndio, a leader in pay governance and compensation intelligence.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity options, remote-first work, and generous time off.
- Other info: Collaborative culture focused on innovation and professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on fair pay decisions for millions of employees worldwide.
- Qualifications: 8+ years in software engineering with experience in large datasets and performance optimization.
The predicted salary is between 180000 - 200000 $ per year.
Do you want to empower organizations to build smarter compensation strategies while ensuring fair pay for all employees? Syndio is the leading pay governance and compensation intelligence platform. We help organizations make better pay decisions at every stage of the compensation lifecycle, from leveling and offers to promotions and merit. Our platform gives HR, compensation, and finance leaders the data and decision support they need to govern pay fairly, compliantly, and with confidence.
About the Role: Essentials is our pay equity product, and its analyses are relied on for high-stakes decisions. Delivering that means running complex statistical work across datasets that routinely reach hundreds of thousands of records, fast enough that a customer can iterate on a real question instead of waiting overnight for a job to finish. This role is for the engineer who makes that computation fast, scalable, and trustworthy.
What You'll Own:
- High-Performance Data Workflows: Build and optimize workflows that run complex mathematical and statistical calculations over datasets of hundreds of thousands of records.
- Orchestration & Scale: Work with the technologies that make large workflows dependable.
- Agentic Tooling for Essentials: Build the tooling that lets our agents execute Essentials workflows.
- Raising the Bar on the Essentials Team: Partner with the Engineering Manager and technical leaders to set standards for testing, performance, and agentic practice.
What We're Looking For:
- Staff-level engineer with 8+ years of professional hands-on experience.
- Deep experience in complex, distributed, service-based systems.
- Proven performance and scale work.
- Orchestration experience.
- Strong across our stack: Python, Go, Node/JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Postgres, and NoSQL stores.
- Testing as a first-class skill.
- A strong agentic development practice.
- High autonomy.
- Cross-team collaboration.
- Best-practice leadership.
Nice to Have:
- Hands-on experience building with AI systems.
- Background in statistics, data science, or quantitative analysis.
- Experience in a domain where correctness is non-negotiable.
- Experience working in a large, complex codebase.
About You:
- You like building products people depend on.
- You care about the experience of whoever's on the other end.
- You treat security, privacy, and compliance as part of your job.
- You are a strong communicator.
- You value a remote work environment.
Why you'll love it here:
- Competitive Compensation: Salary targeted at $180,000 - $200,000 CAD per year.
- Syndio Equity.
- 20 days annually plus paid sick & safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave.
- Additional Private Medical coverage.
- Remote-First (within commuting distance of Calgary).
The Interview Overview: The interview process includes a phone call with a member of our Talent Team, a deep dive with the Hiring Manager, a technical discussion, a take-home assignment, and a final interview with a Product Executive.
At Syndio, we are building a diverse team that values candor, curiosity, and community. If you share these values and are interested in joining us, we'd love to talk with you even if you don't 100% meet the qualifications listed here. Syndio is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Staff Software Developer – Calgary employer: Syndio
Syndio is an exceptional employer that fosters a remote-first work culture, allowing you to thrive while being within commuting distance of Calgary. With competitive compensation, generous benefits including equity options, and a strong emphasis on employee growth and collaboration, you'll be empowered to make impactful contributions in a diverse and inclusive environment. Join us in our mission to revolutionize compensation strategies and enjoy the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology with a team that values curiosity and community.
