Procurify is the Intelligent Spend Management company. We’re on a mission to give all organizations unprecedented visibility and control over their business spend. Our industry-leading platform unifies data across procurement, AP, and expenses, helping finance and operations teams capture, analyze, and optimize every dollar of spend. We’re a remote-first company backed by leading investors, helping mid-market organizations modernize how they manage spend.
We’re looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer to help define the architectural future of Procurify’s core platform. In this role, you will lead large technical projects with significant impact, working closely within our Identity, Integrations, Public API, and other cross-cutting domains within Procurify.
This is a high leverage role with a clear and broad mandate. You'll partner with engineering leadership and senior ICs across engineering to shape how Procurify scales over the next several years.
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
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.
Python Proficiency: Strong experience building and maintaining applications using Python and a major web framework (we use Django and FastAPI).
AI Native Modern SaaS Experience: Experience building scalable, customer-facing SaaS products using modern technologies. You must have practical, hands-on experience accelerating development with AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.
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.
A modern tech stack with opportunities to influence future architecture.
A culture committed to learning, experimentation, and engineering excellence.
Clear technical vision and empowered teams who own their outcomes.
Genuine collaboration, psychological safety, and a people-first culture.
Meaningful problems to solve with real customer and business impact.
WHY PROCURIFY?
We’re committed to helping mission-driven organizations spend smarter
Procurify is a remote-first company with a big heart and a strong ambition to modernize the way organizations manage business spend. We’re looking for talented and team-driven individuals to join us on our journey to build a place where the best people want to work – a place where every team member is empowered to apply their best thinking, push boundaries thoughtfully, and drive high performance together.
You’re empowered to do your best work
We’ve created an environment where personal and professional growth is a real priority. Some of the great perks we offer include:
Flexible working: We’re a remote-first organization with flexible working hours. Work anywhere from within Canada!
Responsible time off: We trust our team to take the time they need to rest and recharge while staying accountable to their commitments.
Extended health benefits: We prioritize our team’s health and well-being. We offer a competitive health, vision, and dental package along with an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and a health and wellness spending account.
Community initiatives: We have a strong commitment to the community. Join one of our regular community days, donate to our Donate Your Day program, and get involved with one of our lunch and learns.
Stock options: Everyone has a chance to own a part of Procurify with our competitive stock program.
DEI initiatives: We regularly run a diversity, equity, and inclusion roundtable where we host guest speakers and tackle the topics that matter.
Base Salary Range: $160,000- $190,000 CAD (This range is dependent on experience and not inclusive of any commission, benefits or equity that might exist in your total compensation package.)
Procurify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against any team members or applicants for employment because of race, color, disability, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity and/or expression.
If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply anyway.
We know that feelings of imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates, and we certainly don’t want those feelings to get in the way of meeting you! We really want to get to know you and why you're great for the role.
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Apply online today and let’s start a conversation.
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