Remote l Canada Based l Full Time

About the role

At Minerva, we’re transforming compliance through cutting-edge AI. Our platform automates AML screening and investigations, enabling financial institutions and fintechs to streamline their workflows, reduce false positives, and focus on what truly matters: mitigating risk.

We are looking for an experienced Staff Backend Developer to help us deliver exceptional, user-centered experiences as we reshape the future of compliance. The work will be challenging due to the speed at which the market is growing and evolving, and the work involved will directly impact the growth trajectory of Minerva.

What you will do:

• Work with product and engineering leaders to identify and plan business projects and technical strategy based on the team goals and resources.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to developers and other stakeholders through the implementation and delivery of large technical projects that cross-cut products, conduct directed research and provide technical analysis of new technologies that meet development, business, or technical needs.
• Drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Extend our backend and infrastructure to be more configurable, reliable, and performant.
• Build relationships with people across and outside engineering for the implementation, roll-out and maintenance.
• Drive technical decisions across the department as well as improvements in infrastructure, help guide the hiring strategy, development teams operations and experience, cross-team communication.
• Take an active role in growing the team, mentoring other developers, and improving the processes that support team efficiency.

What we’re looking for:

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer with technical leadership responsibilities, startup experience.
• Expert at processing complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software.
• Expert in designing and building distributed systems and applications, real-time, scalable web services, APIs, scaling systems in a service oriented architecture.
• Solid CS fundamentals. We primarily use Go, C++, JS, Typescript, React, though our engineers have a wide variety of backgrounds.
• Proven ability to drive project research and design, communicate and document technical ideas clearly.
• Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, Sales, and Business.