Staff Backend Software Engineer, Procurify
CA$146-176k
+ Stock options
Procurement and purchasing software
Be an early applicant
Procurement and purchasing software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$146-176k
+ Stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give all organizations unprecedented visibility and control over their business spend.
Role
Who you are
- Commitment: Demonstrates accountability and follow-through, delivering reliably and owning outcomes in a way that others can depend on
- Ambition: Takes initiative with curiosity and a growth mindset, pursuing bold ideas that elevate impact and performance
- Resilience: Shows adaptability, composure, and perseverance through challenges, staying focused and effective in a fast-changing environment
- Excellence: Brings rigor, collaboration, and a strong quality focus to deliver high-performing solutions and raise the bar for outcomes
- Simplicity: Applies focus, clarity, and streamlining to cut through complexity and enable efficient, impactful execution
- Senior Engineering Experience: 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on building reliable and scalable SaaS software solutions
- AI & ML: Deep understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, vector databases (Databricks/pgVector), and agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, Google ADK, or similar)
- Python Proficiency: Strong experience building and maintaining applications using Python and a major web framework (we use Django)
- Strategic Leadership: Experience leading large technical projects with significant impact across many teams. You effectively drive architecture decisions and can advise leadership on critical technical considerations
- Mentorship: Extensive experience mentoring engineers and delivering technical feedback to peers
- Database & API Knowledge: Experience working with relational databases (we use MySQL), including schema design and query optimization, and a solid understanding of RESTful API design principles
- Problem Solver: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to balance multiple competing priorities while solving challenging problems
- Empathetic & Accountable: You act with compassion, believe that your team's success is your success, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues
- Maintains a professional and current LinkedIn profile, ensuring it is updated upon joining Procurify to reflect their new role and maintain a consistent company presence
- If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply anyway
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer to join our team and guide the product direction and technical architecture of the core engine that powers the Procurify platform
- You will work alongside Procurify's leadership team and other talented engineers to solve challenging technical problems and ship high-quality code
- In this role, you will lead large technical projects with significant impact, ensuring our server-side systems are built for performance, reliability, and scalability
- A big part of this role involves working across engineering teams to build strong relationships, mentor more junior technical leaders, and enable our teams to deliver effectively
- We're seeking entrepreneurial people who are willing to challenge the status quo and contribute to larger strategic objectives
- Lead Technical Strategy & Architecture: Effectively drive architecture decisions that align with product strategy and advise Procurify's leadership team on critical technical considerations. You will collaborate with your team on technical designs to ensure they follow appropriate patterns, are architecturally sound, and improve the implementation of our backend systems
- Build & Ship Scalable APIs and Services: Apply your experience to design, develop, and maintain the RESTful APIs and backend services that form the foundation of our product, using Python and Django. You will work across the stack to consistently deliver software that helps Procurify set and achieve a high standard of quality, clarity, and maintainability
- Mentor & Elevate the Team: Teach and mentor technical leaders at Procurify. You will actively participate in code reviews and architectural discussions, delivering written and verbal technical feedback to peers to elevate the team
- Design & Optimize Data Systems: Contribute to the design of our database models and write efficient, secure queries, ensuring the performance and integrity of our data layer
- Ensure Operational Excellence: Participate in the investigation and resolution of defects and performance bottlenecks affecting the quality and stability of the monolith. You will champion code quality and contribute to a high-performance team committed to craft and operational excellence
- Our Tech Stack:
- Application: Python/Django, Typescript/React
- Cloud: AWS
- Infrastructure & Containers: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Databases: MySQL
- CI/CD: CircleCI
Our take
Business spending can be complex and intimidating, and companies often need to navigate multiple platforms. Companies need to find a way to make business decisions that are simple, well informed and ideally all on one platform.
Procurify helps businesses by assisting them to understand and align their organizational spending with their core values and business objectives. The company's procurement software offers a structured method that gains and tracks approvals for spending. The platform organises all purchasing and spend documents, and enhance the information that’s already in the accounting system.
The company is the leading spend management, purchasing, and procurement software platform and is used by hundreds of companies. More than just a platform, Procurity is focused on creating a new way of thinking about finance with that it calls Spend Culture, which helps teams make smarter, more purposeful spending decisions every day.
Steph
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Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2023
$50m
SERIES C
Jun 2019
$26m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.4m
Company benefits
- Remote-first: As a remote-first organization, our team can work anywhere within Canada
- Flexible work hours: We don’t have set hours. You have the flexibility to work on the schedule that works for you and your team
- Unlimited RTO: We know there’s more to life than just work, which is why we offer unlimited Responsible Time Off for all of our team members. We encourage our team to take breaks and unplug
- Health benefits: We prioritize our team’s health and wellbeing. We offer a competitive health, vision, and dental package along with an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and a health and wellness spending account
- Stock options: Everyone has a chance to own a part of Procurify with our competitive stock program
- Financial wellbeing: We provide Wealthsimple programs and access to financial advisors to support our team’s diverse life goals
- Training and development: Personal and technical growth are things that we value, so we provide access to Pluralsight, Masterclass, and progressive career matrices
- Tech setup: We make sure our team is equipped with the right tools and tech to set them up for success from Day One
- Community initiatives: We have a strong commitment to giving back to our communities, including regular volunteer days, our Donate Your Day program, and education lunch and learns
- DEI initiatives: We run a diversity, equity, and inclusion roundtable monthly where we host guest speakers and tackle the topics that matter
- Referral program: It’s all about who you know. Our grand prize for our Referral Bonus Program is a bucket list vacation for two!
Company HQ
Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Chad Gaydos
(CEO)Previously a President at Total Expert, COO at Talkdesk, and COO and CRO at Skillsoft. They also spent over 18 years at SAP America as the COO of Regulated Industries.
Amy Wang
(CFO)Previously the CFO of Userful and a VP of Finance at Morgan Stanley. They also spent over 4 years at Solium as a Senior Financial Analyst and Assistant Controller.
Jeffrey Hardy
(CRO)Previously spent over 10 years at SAP in various roles, including Global Director of Strategic Markets & Programs and the Global Head of Strategic Sales.
Aman Mann
(Co-Founder & CSO)Co-Founded Procurify in 2012 and served as the CEO until 2025 when they moved to the role of CSO.
Eugene Dong
(Co-Founder & CTO)Co-Founded Procurify in 2013 and has served as the CTO since.
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