Canada-Remote Remote (Country) $140K–$180K CAD

Workleap is hiring a Staff Software Developer - ShareGate Backup

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical design, architecture, and delivery of the Backup feature, ensuring scalability, security, and long-term maintainability.
  • Design and develop a new backup system that is reliable, automated, and easy to use, capable of meeting operational needs and recovery requirements.
  • Define and champion a spec-driven development workflow, where features are designed upfront through detailed technical specifications before any code is written, enabling agentic AI-assisted development, faster reviews, and higher quality delivery.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, and directly with customers to validate our solutions, and align our technical direction to our product goals.
  • Mentor developers, grow the team, and influence technical decisions across ShareGate’s engineering organization.
  • Act as a visible technical leader, advocating for scalable design decisions, driving technical discussions, and influencing ShareGate’s broader engineering practices.

Team

Structure: You’ll be the first developer on this new team, taking full technical leadership from the start. In the early stages, you’ll be supported by a Principal Developer as well as a small development team to define the technical foundation, architectural direction, and key delivery frameworks. With a dedicated Product Manager, Product Designer, and Manager already in place, you’ll have a unique opportunity to help select and shape the engineering team around you.

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Workleap
Workleap is a Montreal-based tech company on a mission to make work simpler. Since 2006, we’ve been building game-changing products that tackle HR and IT’s biggest challenges. Workleap operates two distinct product lines: - The Workleap Platform, an AI-powered HR solution designed to drive team performance and boost employee engagement. - ShareGate, the leading Microsoft 365 migration and governance solution, trusted by IT professionals worldwide for its unmatched simplicity. Today, more than 20,000 companies rely on Workleap products to grow, lead, and operate with confidence. We’re builders at heart, with a clear purpose: to craft the simplest products that deliver exceptional value for our customers. Period.
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