Toronto Jobs - August 2021

AMD | Linux Build Engineer, Linux Software Engineer (OpenGL and/or Multimedia) | Toronto, Canada | REMOTE | Full Time

Our team works on open-source GPU drivers for Linux. We are leading contributors to the Radeon Mesa graphics and multimedia drivers included in popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and Debian. Our software is used in exciting products such as the Tesla Model S and the Steam Deck.

Linux Build Engineer - https://jobs.amd.com/job/Markham-Linux-Build-Engineer-102421...

We are looking for experienced software engineers to enhance build, packaging, and install. Successful candidates will utilize their knowledge of Linux application development or Linux systems administration to become key contributors to the ongoing development of AMD GPU drivers for current and future hardware. Ideal candidates are passionate about Linux and open source, are self-motivated, have exceptional problem-solving skills, will thrive in a fast-paced environment, and have a proven ability to collaborate within and across diverse teams

Linux Software Engineer (OpenGL and/or Multimedia) - https://jobs.amd.com/job/Markham-Linux-Software-Engineer-%28...

We are looking for experienced software engineers to develop, maintain, and support graphics and multimedia drivers in support of a wide range of applications. Successful candidates will utilize their knowledge of Linux device driver development or Linux application development to become key contributors to the ongoing development of AMD GPU drivers for current and future hardware.

I am the co-founder of two fast-growing ed-tech companies, Top Hat (450 employees) and Kritik (25 employees) in Toronto, Canada. I am currently looking for a technical co-founder (in Canada) and a few senior developers (could be remote, but open to relocate to Canada), and a product manager (In Canada or open to relocate to Canada) for Kritik. At Kritik, we are changing the way students are assessed in the classrooms, moving away from objective memorization-based assessment to higher-order-thinking skills. We are in business in less than 2 years but are already in 400 college and university classrooms, generating $1M ARR. Our technical stack is MERN and the job descriptions can be found in https://angel.co/company/kritik-1/jobs If you are interested, feel free to connect with me and drop me a line in my linkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mohsenshahini

Scribd | Software Engineers | San Francisco, Toronto, Amsterdam | ONSITE or REMOTE | VISA

Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. In 2019 we hit 1M paying subscribers (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/28/scribd-1-million-subscribe...). Last year we acquired SlideShare (https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/scribd-acquires-slideshare...). We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.

Scribd has a very friendly, engineering-driven company culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time we value a good work life balance. In general we care way more about your personality, communication, and hacking skills than what languages and technologies you’ve used so far.

To learn more, please check out our tech blog and open-source projects at https://tech.scribd.com/

We are hiring software engineers across the board (see https://www.scribd.com/careers), including:

* The SlideShare team is in search of an SRE to help us build out our infrastructure and tooling. We strongly believe in SRE principles like embracing risk, reducing toil, and blameless incident reviews to help improve our processes and product. If you are looking for a role with huge opportunity for impact and to shape the future of how we operate our product, please reach out! https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/1e814bff-ba97-4aa0-9b65-2221cb0...

* Senior Manager, Search Engineering: We’re looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead a growing search engineering team to deliver algorithms and ML models that will ensure that every search leads to what our readers are looking for. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/3f435a0b-b952-481a-b62f-b750fe3...

* The Payments team is looking for mid-level to senior engineers to build smart payment systems. Our mission is to grow revenue with sophisticated, reliable and secure international payments. The Payments team works on exciting projects that cover Product, Infrastructure, Finance. We are in an interesting phase of applying machine learning to optimize authorization rates and personalizing user's payment experience. We are hiring for two positions: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/9a29a357-4a39-47f0-a79a-b4c77b1... and https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/5743db19-7a5e-4875-af2f-1be8def...

* The security team is looking for a senior Security Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/b09437fe-80e4-4ce9-851c-1c23d35...

* Senior Software Engineer Publisher Content Management: The team is responsible for the ingestion, metadata, and publisher payout systems for all Scribd premium content types: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/155ac5c5-5039-4133-9f15-b8b0732...

* The Data Engineering team is in need of Senior Engineers onsite in San Francisco, onsite in Toronto, or remote within the US. We are looking for folks who have a passion for developing data pipelines on modern data engineering platforms. Experience with streaming technologies and Spark are a strong plus. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/46a9ef46-d214-483d-be09-f811c8b...

* Senior Software Engineer Web Frontend - https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/60d67b52-1b5c-4eb7-a799-9b6ee50...

* Senior iOS Engineer: We’re a small team working on an app with 1.4mil active monthly users. You’ll work on everything from UI to API communication to data persistence. We work together with teams across the company, including design, backend, and product, to make a native iOS app that we are proud of, and that our users love and use every day. We believe in continuously improving our skills and codebase, work/life balance, and doing things right over doing them fast. We’re looking for engineers who share this view and are excited about writing quality code, trying new technologies, and playing well with others. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/f090c6fa-025f-4a96-80d5-babf1f1...

We have hired many people from these HN threads, including myself (back in 2012!). If you have specific questions you can reach out to me directly at adrian at scribd.com (I'm the Head of Technology and happy to answer questions related to our roles - recruiters/agencies: please do not contact me). Please apply directly via https://jobs.lever.co/scribd?lever-via=ze1h-jCbee

Wave Financial | Senior Engineers, Leads, Managers | Toronto or remote within Canada | https://www.waveapps.com

At Wave, we give small business owners and entrepreneurs the tools they need to make, manage, and move their money.

That starts with a team that’s passionate about serving these small business owners. We’re unwavering in our commitment to making sure the brilliant, hard-working Wavers who make up our team are empowered to do the best work of their careers and thrive in every aspect of their lives. We invest in growing your skills, scope, and responsibilities.

At Wave, you won’t just write code — you’ll build high-quality systems at scale. This means being involved in the research, design, and organizational and maintenance practices behind our wide range of applications, which are relied upon by tens of thousands of small business owners. Most Wave engineers are willing and able to dive into different technologies to get the job done. This requires curiosity, openness to new ideas and perspectives, a genuine interest in what makes software products tick, and a commitment to the craft of software development.

We're not fussy about what tech stack you've used in the past, but we primarily work with Python, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL, and also have teams working in Ruby on Rails, React Native, and Go. We have a great office in the East End of Toronto, but we’re also committed to remote work (within Canada only for now) being an equal option for the long term. Right now we’re mainly looking for Senior Engineers, Team Leads, and Managers; but we’re always expanding and opening up new roles, so drop us a line even if you’re not sure you fit those profiles.

More info on Wave Engineering and ways to get in touch: https://www.beforeyouapply.com/team/engineering-at-wave

More info on Wave careers: https://www.waveapps.com/about-us/careers

Apply to open roles: https://jobs.lever.co/waveapps?department=Development

HyperComply | Senior Full Stack Software Engineer | New York, Toronto, REMOTE (US or Canada) | https://hypercomply.com

At HyperComply we're working to eliminate friction during the trust building phase of B2B sales cycles, primarily by helping software vendors automate their responses to security questionnaires.

We're building out our software engineering org with some key early-stage engineering hires to help build out new features as well support our existing product. We're looking for self-driven engineers that are excited to work on a small, high-impact team.

Please find a full job description here: https://angel.co/company/hypercomply-2/jobs/1360079-senior-f...

Tech Stack: Go, Python, React, TypeScript

If you're interested in learning more, feel free to apply on job posting above or send us an email at jobs@hypercomply.com. Looking forward to talking!