{"id":1294531,"url":"https://alion.io/job/joist-everpro-staff-engineer","title":"EverPro - Staff Engineer","company":{"id":2106260,"name":"Joist","domain":"joist.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/joist","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":["Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":["AU","CA","NZ"],"hiring_countries_total":3,"salary":{"min":145000,"max":190000,"currency":"CAD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":134416},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Memcached","optional":false},{"name":"Node JS","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"RabbitMQ","optional":false},{"name":"Redis","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-16T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-16","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T23:43:43Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":11,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":11},"description":"EverPro - Staff Engineer\nEverCommerce (Nasdaq: EVCM) is a leading service commerce platform, providing vertically-tailored, integrated SaaS solutions that help more than 745,000 global service-based businesses accelerate growth, streamline operations, and increase retention. Its modern digital and mobile applications create predictable, informed, and convenient experiences between customers and their service professionals. With its EverPro, EverHealth, and EverWell brands specializing in Home, Health, and Wellness service industries, EverCommerce provides end-to-end business management software, embedded payment acceptance, marketing technology, and customer experience applications.\nWe are building an extraordinary company and looking for talented, energetic, and motivated people to join our team. You can learn more about our Company, Culture and Values here: https://careers.evercommerce.com/us/en\nBusiness/Vertical:\nEverPro, a business within EverCommerce, provides software and solutions designed to help home and field service businesses run and grow their companies with greater efficiency and confidence. EverPro brings together purpose-built tools across key trades-including field service, remodeling and roofing, landscaping, and pest and lawn-so service professionals can manage operations, engage customers, and drive long-term growth.\nOur solutions support the full lifecycle of running a service business, from scheduling and dispatching work, to estimating, invoicing, and payments, to customer communication, reputation management, and business insights. Together, these connected solutions help service pros win more jobs, save time, and build stronger, more resilient businesses.”\nThe Invoicing vertical within EverPro focuses on business management and payments solutions for small service businesses through our Invoice Simple and Joist products. These solutions help service professionals efficiently manage their business finances, from creating estimates and invoices to processing payments and tracking jobs. Our products serve hundreds of thousands of freelancers, solo entrepreneurs and microbusinesses across hundreds of industries across multiple geographies.\nPosition Summary:\nWe are looking for an experienced and motivated Staff Engineer to lead the evolution of our backend systems and drive improvements to our core services. This role is critical in optimizing our existing stack and building a scalable, unified invoicing solution for both existing and new customers. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in developing and maintaining highly scalable Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), microservices, database optimization and distributed systems while driving engineering excellence across teams.\nResponsibilities:\nArchitect & Optimize Scalable Backend Services\nDesign, build, and enhance backend microservices and event-driven architectures to support long-term scalability.\nDrive cross-platform integrations within the EverPro ecosystem to enable a seamless and performant invoicing experience.\nOptimize performance and reliability of core backend services through targeted refactoring, bottleneck analysis, and re-architecture.\nDistributed Systems & Cloud Infrastructure\nApply modern distributed systems principles to improve system observability, fault tolerance, and resilience.\nEnsure high availability of backend services leveraging cloud-native architectures, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code best practices.\nImplement robust tracing, logging, and security measures across all backend systems.\nDatabase Performance & Scalability\nOptimize complex queries and schema designs across both NoSQL (MongoDB) and relational databases to ensure data integrity at scale.\nLead efforts to scale data storage and caching solutions, balancing system efficiency, latency, and cloud costs.\nEvaluate and introduce messaging or queuing technologies to support asynchronous workflows.\nRaise the Engineering Bar\nAct as a technical pillar and mentor, setting backend best practices and driving engineering excellence across squads.\nAuthor technical design documents (RFCs) and advocate for modern development patterns, enhancing code quality, security, and maintainability.\nChampion automated testing, CI/CD enhancements, and rigorous code reviews.\nCollaborate Across Teams\nWork closely with product, frontend, and engineering leadership to align underlying technical infrastructure with product goals.\nInfluence technical strategy and shape the roadmap by participating early in product discovery and architectural discussions.\nCommunicate complex technical trade-offs effectively to stakeholders, navigating ambiguity with a data-driven, proactive mindset.\nSkills and Experiennce needed for success in this role:\n10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a heavy emphasis on backend systems, APIs, and data services.\n1-2 years of experience operating at a Staff Engineer level, leading architectural decisions and driving cross-team technical initiatives.\n6+ years of hands-on experience developing highly scalable backend microservices using Node.js and TypeScript.\nExtensive expertise in database modeling, indexing, and performance tuning across both relational and document stores (PostgreSQL, MongoDB).\nDeep understanding of caching strategies (Redis, Memcached) and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.) to handle asynchronous processing.\nProven track record of designing high-performance, scalable APIs (REST or GraphQL) that seamlessly support high-traffic mobile and web applications.\nStrong command of cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines (CI/CD), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).\nExperienced in rapidly assessing legacy architectures and driving pragmatic optimizations that enhance both technical reliability and business KPIs.\nExceptional communication and technical writing skills, with the ability to document complex systems and collaborate effectively with diverse teams.\nPassionate about system observability, maintaining high code quality through rigorous automated testing, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.\nWhere:\nThe EverCommerceteam is distributed globally, with teams in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., New Zealand, and Australia. With a widely distributed team, we are used to working remotely across different time zones. This role can be based anywhere in Canada - if you are close to one of our offices, we can set you up in-office or you can work 100% remotely. Please note that you must be eligible to work without sponsorship to qualify for this position, and this role may require travel to our Corporate Headquarters in Denver, Colorado, or to other office locations around North America.\nBenefits & Perks:\nFlexibility to work where/how you want within your country of employment - in-office, remote, or hybrid\n\nRobust wellness benefits, including an annual wellness stipend\n\nFlexible and generous (FTO) time-off\n\nEmployee Stock Purchase Program\n\nRegistered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with 4% company match\n\nCompensation:\nEverCommerceis committed to equal pay and transparency. The annual base salary range for this position is $145,000- $190,000CAD Per Year. Please note that the salary range information provided is a general guideline and combines all distinct labor markets in the US. EverCommerceconsiders factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, candidate’s work location,education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, external market data, as well as market and business considerations when making compensation decisions.\nEverCommerce is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We look forward to reviewing your credentials and getting to know more about your experience!\nEverCommerce uses approved artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools to support its business operations. Employees are encouraged to use authorized AI tools, when appropriate for their roles, to improve efficiency, quality, and innovation. All AI use must comply with company policies, including requirements concerning confidentiality, data security, intellectual property, accuracy, and human review. 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