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The platform enables organizations managing complex corporate and investment structures to automate governance workflows, maintain audit-ready records and collaborate across functions with confidence.\nMore than 500,000 entities across over 150 countries are managed on Athennian, helping organizations modernize entity management and transform governance operations into a strategic advantage.\nWe are a fast-moving, solutions-driven team using an AI-forward approach to solve complex operational challenges. If you are passionate about building technology that transforms traditional industries, we’d love to have you join us.\n About the role\nWe're looking for a drivenSoftware Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team to contribute to our mission of managing hundreds of thousands of business entities worldwide, empowering our users with a platform that inspires trust. In this role, you will contribute to designing, building, and maintaining scalable software solutions that enhance our platform's functionality and performance. Reporting to the Director of Development, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality code, optimize application performance, and support the growth of our technology stack.\nWhat you'll do\nArchitect & Deliver: Develop, test, and deploy high-quality, scalable software solutions that align with complex business needs.\nStrategic System Design: Participate in technical discussions and contribute to high-level decisions on system architecture, focusing on configurability and long-term maintainability.\nAI-Augmented Development: Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery cycles while maintaining code integrity.\nCollaborative Innovation: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate user needs into innovative features and improvements.\nQuality & Security Governance: Optimize application performance, ensure security and reliability, and conduct thorough code reviews to maintain high code quality.\nProcess Evolution: Identify and resolve technical challenges, propose solutions, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes.\nFuture-Proofing: Stay up to date with industry trends, specifically LLM integrations and automated testing advancements to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies that can enhance our platform’s capabilities.\nTechnical Mentorship: Guide the team in best practices for modern engineering, from sophisticated TypeScript typing to efficient AI-prompting for complex refactors.\nQualifications\n4+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record of architecting scalable, enterprise-grade applications.\nProficiency in full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript environments, specifically the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node.js).\nModern AI fluency: Demonstrated ability to use AI-augmented development tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery without sacrificing code quality or architecture.\nAdvanced Database Knowledge: Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases; familiarity with search indexing and vector search (e.g., MongoDB Atlas Vector Search) is highly valued.\nDeep experience with testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress, Playwright) to build resilient CI/CD pipelines.\nA security-first mindset regarding data protection, access controls, and the safe handling of sensitive corporate legal data.\nExperience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)\nStrong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.\nPrevious experience in a startup/scale up environment\nLocation\nWe have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the world. While some roles may require proximity to our Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver offices, roles based outside our office locations can be remote in Canada. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in Canada. #LI-Remote\nOur Culture\nOur company thrives in a fast-paced startup environment where every team member plays a critical role in driving success.\nOutcome Driven: We focus on setting ambitious goals and achieving measurable results.\nWide Responsibility: Our team is empowered to take ownership from problem identification to implementation.\nLearning Mindset: We embrace curiosity and reject the status quo.\nStrategic Speed: We make fast, effective decisions and embrace a bias for action.\nBenefits at Athennian\nWe’re a remote-first company built on trust, autonomy, and accountability.\nWork-Life Balance: Minimum of 3 weeks vacation, 5 sick days, and 6 personal/flex days, plus a company-wide winter holiday shutdown.\nComprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision, long-term disability, and a Health Spending Account (HSA).\nFamily Support: Flexible parental leave benefits, including top-ups.\nRemote Setup: A dedicated work-from-home allowance to get you set up for success.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5206,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Canada","iso":"CA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Legal Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-12T00:51:38Z"}],"liveness":{"score":14,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.32,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":72,"expected_fill_days":51,"reasons":["conf:0","urgency","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/athennian-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/athennian-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T23:19:40Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":903,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4097,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}