Job Description

Senior Software Engineer
Vancouver, Canada (Hybrid)
Who we are.
At JUDI.AI, we're on a mission to help transform small business dreams into vibrant communities. As a fast-paced fintech startup, we provide financial institutions with the tools to better understand and serve small businesses. Our values of Caring, Innovative, and Trustworthy guide everything we do, from our products to our culture.
We're growing quickly, and our Engineering team builds much of the innovation at the heart of JUDI.AI. If you're looking to apply your skills to impactful real-world problems while helping shape the future of small business lending, we'd love to meet you
Who we are looking for.
We are looking for a hands-on forward thinking software developer. With our flexible work policy, you will be based in the Vancouver area. You would be home-based to start with 1 to 2 days at our office near downtown Vancouver in the future. You do not need to have a banking or fintech background, we'll teach you what you need to know but having an interest in banking and finance; that would be great. You are the kind of person who takes the time to listen, to build relationships and to get stuff done - we run sprints every 2 weeks.
What you will do.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our collaborative team in Vancouver. In this role you will be doing hands-on development in alignment with our engineering objectives to help evolve our business needs. You'll work closely with product managers and company leadership to robust code, help build scalable architecture, and help grow our operations.
Your responsibilities.
Technical

• Participate in design of technical design of current and future products;
• Develop well crafted integrated modules and APIs within a complex and comprehensive infrastructure and a scalable backend platform;
• Promote a leading edge environment for Python, JavaScript (React/Node.js), C# and other development languages including unit and integration testing;
• Ensure high-performance components are developed to securely deliver large amounts of data while minimizing costs;
• Focus on performance and scalability with the ability to optimize platforms for responsiveness and reduced cost of operations;
• Champion quality and performance by vigilantly safeguarding and maintaining the integrity of our code and architecture;
• Competently make routine technical decisions showing good judgment when to consult with Product and CTO on key issues.

Quality

• Contribute to quality, release velocity and team moral through balance of team engagement, automated testing, agile methodologies and aggressive code quality metrics;
• Develop Continuous Integration Pipeline to perform per-commit validation of changes made to the development trunk;
• Lead unit test efforts for all codebases to increase predictability and release cycles;

Qualifications and Skills

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science or relevant work experience;
• 5-10 years software development experience;
• Experience shipping features in a fast-moving, cross-disciplinary team (Product Managers, UX Researchers, Product Marketing, DevOps, etc);
• Solid communication skills - we are passionate but polite and respectful to each other;
• Development experience with JavaScript, Python, C#, and SQL but ability to display good coding skills is more relevant regardless of the language;
• A background of cloud deployment and delivery including work with Azure and Docker containers;
• Experience working with Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Office tools;
• Experience in a web development environment, specifically React and Material Design, delivering white label web products for market;
• Experience with analytics technologies and techniques;
• Experience working in an Agile environment would be great;
• Comfortable working with, updating and optimizing complex algorithms;
• Awareness of deployment requirements for security and data residency;
• An understanding of the financial marketplace and lending would be beneficial.

The job qualifications listed above are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. If you are excited by the position and interested in what we do, feel free to apply even if you don't fit all the qualifications noted. is an equal opportunity employer committed to talent and diversity. We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Why Join Us

• Be part of a mission-driven startup transforming how small businesses access credit.
• Work closely with a talented and supportive team that values both technical rigor and collaboration.
• Hybrid setup: work remotely but meet weekly in our Kitsilano office to share knowledge and stay connected.
• Extra-long weekends: whenever there's a public holiday, you'll get an additional day off on top.
• Opportunity to learn fast, grow your skills, and make an outsized impact at an early stage of company growth.

Skills Required