Lead SWE
CivTiqCivTiq | Lead SWE | ON SITE TORONTO | $130,000 – $180,000 CAD | Founder-level equity | Founder with 3x successful exits|
We are building enterprise-grade, white-label reporting infrastructure for municipal governments across North America.
Full technical decisions
Multi-tenant cloud architecture supporting Canadian data residency requirements Compliance framework buildout: SOC 2, PIPEDA, MFIPPA, security standards relevant to Canadian municipal procurement
Technical hiring as team grows
5+ years in cloud infrastructure or backend engineering with direct exposure to multi-tenant architecture, data residency, and uptime SLA commitments
Shipped production systems where a bug has legal or compliance consequences
Hands-on with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PIPEDA, or equivalent regulated environments
Can review and challenge AI-generated code and architectural decisions. Not threatened by AI tooling, not blindly trusting it
Can represent the technical platform for government IT evaluators
Comfortable inheriting existing TypeScript / Node.js / PostgreSQL codebase
Located in Toronto or willing to relocate
ben [at] civtiq [dot] com
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