Sr. Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

By day: a team of devs passionate about building cutting-edge tech for the future!

By night: pro musicians, fitness enthusiasts, gamers, and more.

Hypotenuse Labs is a software consultancy that helps startups & enterprises build incredible web, AI, and blockchain products. We’re a team of 25, and almost everyone on the team is technical (from senior to CTO-level engineers).

4 Reasons To Join

• 💪 Flexibility 🧘 Work wherever you want, whenever you want. As long as the work is done and clients are happy, it doesn’t matter where you are. We’ve been remote since the start and that will never change. We also believe in minimizing meetings, so any timezone is seamless.
• 💸 Competitive Compensation 💰 We believe in paying people what they're worth. We pay top of market in Canada! We also provide annual bonuses based on company performance, and annual raises based on individual performance.
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Killer learning opportunities & team ❤️ Everyone here is kind, helpful, funny, and fiercely competent. You'll learn a ton from your colleagues and the projects you tackle.
• 🎉 Company Off-Sites ✈️ We regularly schedule company subsidized off-sites, from hiking mountains in Banff, to enjoying beautiful beaches in Mexico. 🌴 We’re remote first, unless it’s for fun.

Previous Projects (Github here)

• Ambient.finance - A year-long undertaking where we took a startup without solid dev practices and overhauled not just their codebase, but also their processes. Our engineers learned how to lead teams and push forward best practices while renewing our contract with them month over month. See our case study for more.
• LlamaIndex - One of the hottest startups in the LLM space. We multiplied their development velocity in a very short period of time. LlamaIndex allows AI models access to many different data sources.
• Coastal Carbon - An ambitious AI startup where we built a functional MVP dashboard that helped them secure an additional $2m in funding. See our case study for more.
• We’ve also worked with many big brands in the blockchain space such as: LayerZero, Lens, Aptos, Starkware, Sudoswap, and more!

Tech Stack

Frontend: React && TypeScript

Backend: Flask || Node.js

The Rest: up to you, as long as it’s the best tool for the job :) Adaptability and eagerness to learn new technologies is a big plus.

What You’ll Do

• ✨ Working with AI & blockchain companies ✨

• Working with some of the most interesting startups in the space through hands-on learning on production. No experience required. Just bring your enthusiasm for learning!

• Level up as an engineer

• Designing, developing, and deploying applications for various web-based platforms.

• Architecting sustainable & scalable systems: as simple as possible, but no simpler.

• Staying up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge.

• Understanding how the game is played

• Collaborating with clients and teammates to ensure project requirements are met.

• Estimating and scoping out projects

• Collaborating with our CTO, engineers and sales team to spec out potential projects with a roadmap and estimates.

• Adapting project explanations to both technical and non-technical clients.

• Critiquing internal and external proposed project timelines to ensure we stay in-scope.

• Simplifying tough, open-ended engineering problems

• Working with clients to turn scopes and business ideas into reality.

• Teaching complex ideas and breaking things down in simple terms (since our work can involve working with clients that are not technically versed in web3).

• Improving engineer and project productivity

• Designing clean abstractions, refactoring, debugging and proper testing to ensure optimal performance and security.

• Growing the engineering culture of the team

• Sharing your knowledge through code reviews, pair programming, mentoring and running technical talks to the team.

What We Look For

Must-haves

• Experience working in software consulting or freelance development, startups, or leading customer-facing projects.
• Solid understanding of best practices for building robust software, but knows when to break the rules.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to zoom in and out. You get the bigger picture, but can also dive into details.
• Attention to detail and a focus on code quality.
• Be an empathetic and courageous leader who takes initiative. You also have a sense of humour, and loves to learn ❤️
• Excitement and passion about anything: tech, travel, music, or life in general!!

Nice-to-have Tech Experience

• Blockchain dApps or smart contracts (solidity)
• Machine learning pipelines and production-grade deployments.
• Cloud providers (e.g., AWS EC2, S3, RDS, GCP/DigitalOcean equivalents).
• Databases (query optimization, indexing, clustering, sharding, replication).
• Redis (e.g., caching, sharding).
• Sysadmin stuff (e.g, linux, systemd, cron, nginx, docker/docker-compose, terraform, ansible, Kubernetes).
• Python deployment (e.g., uwsgi, gunicorn, supervisord).
• Networking (e.g., load balancers, CDNs, firewalls, NATs, VPCs, security).

Compensation: $80-100 CAD hourly. Contractor role with opportunity to convert to full time

Hypotenuse is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.