Lead Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

Location: Toronto, Canada; hybrid with four days in-office each week in most locations

Base salary: CAD 93,200–136,696 annually; 12.5% annual incentive target

Company

hirify.global provides financial data, research, and data products for clients and marketplaces.

What you will do

• Lead technical direction for data feeds and the data engineering function.
• Shape the consolidation strategy for migrating legacy file-based feed products to a unified, governed, cloud-native architecture.
• Design scalable data delivery mechanisms for file-based feeds and marketplace distribution platforms.
• Own data platform architecture across ingestion, transformation, feed generation, and client-facing data products.
• Define practices for data governance, modeling, performance optimization, and reliability.
• Mentor engineers and communicate architectural direction to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or distributed systems.
• Experience building large-scale data pipelines on AWS, Azure, or GCP; AWS is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and Python.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud object storage such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage.
• Ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and align teams without direct management authority.

Nice to have

• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or Redshift.
• Knowledge of data lake and lakehouse architecture, Delta Lake, or Apache Iceberg.
• Experience in regulated or financial services industries with strict data quality and delivery SLA requirements.
• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid collaboration with regular in-person work each week.
• In most locations, the hybrid model involves four days in-office each week.
• Tools and resources are provided for collaboration with global colleagues.
• Additional benefits support flexibility as needs change.