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Staff Software Engineer


Company : Newrich Network


Location : Toronto, Ontario


Created : 2026-05-01


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Please note: Only candidates who reside within the country of the advertised role will be considered. Company Overview Come and Join The New Rich! The opportunity of a lifetime is right at your front door waiting for you to reach out and grab it. Were looking for a handful of early hires to help shape not just our product but our culture as well. The world is changing at a very rapid pace, and you have the chance to set yourself up for success in this new world by joining us on our mission to create a community of forwardthinking individuals. At NewRich Network, we empower digital entrepreneurs to turn their dreams into reality with SaaS tools, elearning programs, and a supportive social networka onestop ecosystem designed for creators, entrepreneurs, and dreamers. Role Overview We are looking for a fullstack Software Engineer who can contribute across the productbuilding new features, improving existing systems, and helping the team work more efficiently. This is a handson role for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment and takes ownership of getting things done. Key Responsibilities - Design and build scalable, faulttolerant systems across product and infrastructure - Own endtoend architecture decisions across multiple services - Lead development of core platform primitives (content, identity, transactions, messaging) - Improve performance, reliability, and system observability - Work closely with founders to translate product vision into technical systems - Set engineering standards, best practices, and the code quality bar - Mentor engineers and help level up the team - Identify and eliminate bottlenecks across the stack - Develop and maintain serverside applications (PHP 8, Laravel 10; Node.JS; Golang; MySQL) - Build and optimize APIs, ensuring performance, scalability, and security - Implement frontend features with React.js (18.2) - Manage CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and code reviews - Collaborate with crossfunctional teams and mentor juniors - Manage integrations between systems and cloud services (AWS) - Maintain documentation, database schemas, and enforce security best practices What Were Looking For - Experience - 8+ years of software engineering experience - Proven experience designing and scaling complex distributed systems - Experience working on highgrowth products or platforms - Background in marketplaces, social platforms, payments / fintech systems, or SaaS infrastructure - Technical Strength - Strong backend experience (PHP/Laravel, TypeScript ode, Go, or similar) - Deep understanding of system design and architecture, API design and service boundaries, databases (MySQL, Postgres, eventdriven systems), caching, queues, and async processing - Experience with payment systems or financial workflows (preferred) - Experience with realtime systems (messaging, notifications, streaming) - Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) - Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and quality tooling (e.g., Pest/PHPUnit, Vitest, Playwright, ESLint/Prettier) - Leadership & Ownership - Ability to operate with high autonomy - Strong product intuitionbalance speed and scalability - Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction - Comfortable working in earlystage, ambiguous environments - Nice to have - WebRTC, FFMPEG, HLS, SRT, RTMP, DRM - Node.js/Express, GitHub Actions - NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) - Experience with multiservice/microservices architecture - Familiarity with AWS services such as ECS/ECR, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Redis, Amazon MQ, and Lambda - Experience improving GitHub Actions workflows and CI/CD pipelines - Familiarity with automated testing and quality tooling (Pest/PHPUnit, Vitest, Playwright, ESLint/Prettier, Pint, Psalm) - Personal qualities - Selfdriven, motivated, reliable in a fastpaced environment - Passionate about something outside of work (or coding if thats your hobby) Tech Stack (Current & Evolving) - Backend: Laravel (PHP) moving toward TypeScript / Go services - Database: MySQL (future evolution toward more scalable architectures) - Infrastructure: AWS - Realtime / Messaging: Inhouse systems (moving away from thirdparty dependencies) What Makes This Role Different - You will help define the technical foundation of an entire ecosystem, not just a feature - Direct access to founders and influence on product & business decisions - Opportunity to build both consumergrade social product and fintechgrade infrastructure - High ownership, low bureaucracy Compensation - $120,000$160,000 (combination of base + equity + annual bonus, based on location, experience, and company performance) - Meaningful equity package (earlystage upside) - Flexible work environment Who You Should Be - Youre not just a coderyou think in systems - Youve built things that broke at scaleand learned how to fix them - You care about performance, reliability, and longterm architecture, but you also know how to ship fast when it matters Benefits - Paid Adventure Time an allexpensespaid remote trip for 3 weeks to a destination of your choice and flexible personal 'MeDays' - Fast growth, big upside real ownership, rapid learning, and a chance to shape the companys future - Equity + bonus early equity and bonuses tied to milestones - Unlimited learning full access to every course and program on the NewRich platform - Home office stipend budget for workspace and a new MacBook - Annual retreat remote work with inperson gatherings in inspiring locations Apply Wed love to hear from you! 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