Senior Software Engineer, Wrapbook
Platform Enablement
CA$156.5-215k
Media production payroll & insurance solution
Posted today
Media production payroll & insurance solution
201-500 employees
Posted today
CA$156.5-215k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the lives of those working in production better.
Role
Who you are
- You're a full-stack engineer with a strong technical background building production web applications and APIs, ideally in Ruby on Rails
- Strong architectural insight — you reason about tradeoffs and select the right abstractions when working in shared, cross-team systems, and understand the risks of changing shared infrastructure that many teams depend on
- High ownership mentality — self-directed and solution-oriented, comfortable driving ambiguous work forward with only light-touch review
- Experience on a platform, infrastructure, or enablement team — you've built systems that other teams consume, not just end-user-facing features, and you're comfortable balancing "ship our roadmap" with "unblock everyone else." Bonus points if that experience includes approval workflows, role-based access control (RBAC), or identity/auth products (Auth0, session management) in a multi-tenant SaaS product
- A collaborative mindset — experience partnering across the product teams that consume shared platform services to align architecture with business goals
- An AI-centric workflow — comfort using AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code) and beginning to build AI-enabled agents or MCP servers as part of your engineering toolkit
- Excellent communication skills that let you land ideas clearly with your team and cross-functional partners
- Comfortable working in two-week cycles with Agile/Scrum-style planning
- You understand how to write, analyze, and optimize SQL queries (PostgreSQL is a plus)
- You are customer-focused and like to pay attention to detail and value quality
What the job involves
- Wrapbook is looking for a Senior Software Engineer I to join PANDA, our platform and technical enablement team. PANDA owns the cross-cutting systems every product team at Wrapbook relies on: the Approval Workflow Engine (AWE), permissions for customers and internal employees, authentication (Auth0/MFA), and notifications. This isn't a feature team — it's platform infrastructure with deep technical complexity and broad cross-team impact, and the systems you build will be relied on company-wide
- Own and evolve cross-cutting platform systems — approval workflows, permissions, authentication, and notifications — bringing strong architectural judgment to state management, data integrity, scalability, and backward compatibility for shared infrastructure
- Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and subject matter experts across the teams that consume PANDA's services to provide elegant solutions to Wrapbook customer problems
- Lead and decompose complex, ambiguous projects into actionable technical tasks, including migration paths that don't break dependent teams
- Write performant, scalable, and secure backend code in Ruby on Rails
- Design and optimize data models and SQL queries (PostgreSQL)
- Participate in code reviews — including reviewing changes from other teams that touch PANDA-owned systems — mentor and learn from fellow engineers, and help raise the technical bar
- Actively improve our tools, processes, and best practices
- Participate in an on-call rotation, responding to production issues and partnering with the team to resolve them quickly
- Our Tech Stack:
- Full stack Ruby on Rails (Frontend & Backend)
- StimulusJS
- Redis
- Sidekiq
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes
Our take
Payroll systems for the production industry are long outdated, with the vast majority of administration still being completed manually, in person, and on paper. This forces cast and crew members to loose many hours in unpaid work and drives up production costs.
Wrapbook's app helps cast and crew complete onboarding, submit timecards and track payments. It offers touch and face ID and helps users track various filings as they pass through the system. Its position as one of the country’s only entertainment-compliant companies of its kind has given it a strong head start in its field.
The company's product is used by well-known production companies such as CollegeHumor, Creative Blood and JN, and serves over 1,000 companies in total. The company has earned Unicorn status, and continues to enhance the capabilities of its payroll platform such as through the acquisition of scheduling platform Cinapse.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
230% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2024
$20m
LATE VC
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $150.4m
Company benefits
- Health & Benefits - choose from several customizable plans, including vision and dental
- Minimum Time Off - Everyone is encouraged to take at least 3 weeks off annually
- 401K & RRSP
- Work Remotely
- IT Setup for Your Home
- Lifestyle Perks - Wrapbook employees get a monthly stipend to treat themselves
- Stock Options
- Parental Leave
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Cameron Woodward
(Co-founder)Director of Interactive Marketing at Invisible Children. Next, Co-founded and Executive produced Sprinkle Lab for 8 years. Went on to Found and serve as CEO of Film Casualty Insurance Agency.
Ali Javid
(CEO & Co-founder)Formerly VP of Business Development at Body Labs, Business Development Manager at Intel Corporation and Director of Strategy and Finance at WebTuner Corp.
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