Homebase
Senior Software Engineer, Core Product (Hybrid)
Toronto, Remote. Posted 17 days ago
The role
You will build products for small business owners including Scheduling, HR Management, and Payroll. You will design, build, and launch features while using AI-first workflows and mentoring junior engineers.
What you will do
- Design, build, and launch features across Scheduling, HRM, and Payroll
- Deliver reliable, testable, maintainable code
- Solve problems where Scheduling, Time Tracking, HRM, and Payroll meet
- Use AI and agentic tools daily across design, code, tests, and reviews
- Give sharp code reviews and advance engineering standards
- Mentor the engineers around you
- Partner with PMs, Designers, and Data to shape products
- Lead implementation of components and services
- Own estimates and delivery
- Retool workflows with AI to raise velocity and quality
Required qualifications
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Record of shipping production software that customers depend on
- Clean design, solid tests, and thoughtful trade-offs
- Comfort working in a high-velocity environment
- Clear communicator
- Active AI fluency
- Leads implementation of components or services
- Delivers projects end to end
- Owns estimation, execution, and iterative improvement
- Mentors junior engineers
Nice to have
- Strong background in Ruby on Rails
- Experience with payroll, scheduling, workforce management, or similarly complex business domains
Benefits
- Stock options
- TFSA/RRSP with 4% company match
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
- Flexible PTO
- Company holidays
- Designated focus periods
- Access to paid AI tools
- Maternity/Parental Leave EI top-up support offered after 6 months of service
- Work From Anywhere Month
- Meeting-free weeks yearly
- Life insurance
- Short/long-term disability coverage
Before you apply
- Background Check
About the company
Homebase is an everything app for hourly teams that helps small businesses with scheduling, time clocks, payroll, communication, and HR. Over 150,000 small businesses rely on the platform.