At a Glance
- Tasks: Empower organizations with smarter compensation strategies and build innovative software solutions.
- Company: Join Syndio, a leading pay governance platform focused on fair pay for all.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, equity options, remote work, and generous time off.
- Other info: Collaborative culture that values diversity, curiosity, and continuous learning.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by developing cutting-edge integrations and tools that support teams globally.
- Qualifications: Strong experience in software development, especially with APIs and third-party integrations.
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.
This is a broad Staff engineering seat reporting directly to the Director of Engineering. You'll work on the problems that cut across the org: building outward-facing surfaces for our platform, building internal tools and agentic solutions that empower teams across the company, and flexing into whichever team needs senior capacity at the time. The common thread is technical depth applied where it has the most leverage, with very little direction required to get there.
The largest current thrust is our third-party ecosystem: integration apps hosted inside major HRIS and enterprise service management platforms, and the APIs that external systems and developers build against. Alongside that, you'll own internal tooling and agentic projects that support teams across the company — building on the AI capabilities our AI team provides.
Success is measured three ways: how much of our customers' work can happen inside the systems they already use, how well the tooling you build supports the teams that depend on it, and how reliably you move the needle on whichever problem you're pointed at.
Why this job is exciting
- Third-Party Platform Apps & Integrations: Build and ship integration apps hosted inside third-party platforms — major HRIS, enterprise service management, and the other systems where compensation and HR work actually happens.
- Agentic Internal Tooling & Projects: Build internal tooling and agentic projects that support the org — scaffolding, verification, agents that handle work people currently do by hand, and the harnesses that make any of it trustworthy.
- Scalable APIs for External Consumers: Design and build APIs consumed by third-party systems and external developers — with real thought given to versioning, backward compatibility, rate limiting, pagination, idempotency, webhooks, and error semantics that a stranger can debug.
- Identity & Access — Supporting the Platform: Pick up work on our identity and authentication services when the team needs capacity, partnering closely with the engineers and architects who set direction there.
- Cross-Team Capacity: Engineers here work across team boundaries. You'll be deployed where the need is highest, ramp quickly in unfamiliar code, and leave it better than you found it.
About You
- Staff-level engineer. A high-output individual contributor who raises the output of everyone around you.
- Deep experience in complex, distributed, service-based systems.
- Strong across our stack: Python, Go, Node/JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Postgres, and NoSQL stores such as Firebase.
- Comfortable moving between problem domains.
- Genuinely like experimenting with new technology.
- Serious integration experience.
- API design for outside consumers.
- Authentication and authorization fluency.
- Testing as a first-class skill.
- A strong agentic development practice.
- High autonomy.
- Cross-team collaboration.
Nice to have
- Product management instincts.
- Prior experience publishing an app to a major enterprise marketplace or app store.
- Direct experience with Auth0 or comparable identity providers.
- Hands-on experience building with AI systems.
- Experience in a domain where correctness is non-negotiable.
- Partner- or developer-facing experience.
Why you’ll love it here
- Competitive Compensation. For this role our salary is targeted at $180,000 - $200,000 CAD per year.
- Syndio Equity.
- 20 days annually plus paid sick & safe time, and compassion leave.
- Paid parental leave.
- Medical, Dental, Vision. Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums, and 50% for dependents.
- Additional Private Medical coverage.
- RSSP Plan.
- Remote-First (within commuting distance of Calgary).
At Syndio, we’re 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 “about you” listed here. We don’t expect anyone to have all the answers, as long as you’re willing to learn and grow with us.
Syndio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are building an inclusive and collaborative workplace as we grow, and we welcome team members regardless of gender/identity, sexual orientation, race or cultural background, religion, physical disability and age.
Staff Software Engineer in 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 ensure fair pay for all employees.
