Rare Days: Full-Stack Engineering Lead

Salary: Not specified.

Location: Vancouver, Canada.

Are you a seasoned engineer with a passion for tackling technical challenges and building scalable systems? Do you thrive on collaborating with product, design, and client teams? If so, this opportunity at Rare Days may be your ideal next step.

Rare Days is a multi-disciplinary digital product agency headquartered in Vancouver. Since 2020, they have been obsessed with helping creators build lasting legacies. Their sweet spot is where content meets commerce, empowering established creators and content-led businesses to transform their passion into sustainable success. With a fully remote team based in Canada, Rare Days is open to candidates able to work within 4 hours of PST.

As a Lead Engineer at Rare Days, you will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day engineering work, architecting scalable backend systems, and driving decision-making around performance, scalability, and system design. You will work both independently and with small teams, write production code, and play a key role in steering technical direction.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Development

• Oversee day-to-day engineering work, keeping the team unblocked and aligned on priorities
• Architect scalable backend systems using languages and frameworks such as Go and Python. Experience with Kotlin is a plus.
• Contribute to frontend work using React and TypeScript as needed
• Drive decision-making around performance, scalability, and system design
• Write clean, maintainable code and ensure engineering best practices are followed
• Lead technical documentation, sprint planning, and ongoing delivery

Collaboration & Client Engagement

• Partner with product managers and designers to define and scope solutions
• Lead client-facing conversations around technical strategy and progress
• Present work during demos, milestone check-ins, and roadmap reviews
• Balance business needs with technical feasibility in collaborative planning sessions

Team Mentorship & Culture

• Provide regular feedback and guidance to engineers
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and leveling processes
• Help foster a strong, inclusive engineering culture rooted in transparency and accountability
• Identify opportunities to improve our tools, processes, and technical standards

What We're Looking For:

• 7+ years of professional engineering experience
• English proficiency
• Experience with Go and Python, including system architecture and performance optimization, is required. Kotlin experience is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of React, NextJS, and Typescript
• Backend experience with APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), cloud services (AWS, GCP), and distributed systems
• Effective communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to compromise on business trade-offs and technical decisions
• Design and communication skills to create robust, scalable technical solutions that are easily understood by internal and client teams
• Comfortable dealing with uncertainty and capable of disambiguating complex scope and domains to your team
• Passion for helping team members achieve success on projects

Bonus Skills:

• Experience building creator platforms, media tools, or community-driven products
• Familiarity with GraphQL, gRPC, or microservice infrastructure
• Interest in developer experience, automation, or DevOps tooling

Compensation and Benefits:

• Extended health benefits for Canadian employees
• Flexible working hours and a remote-friendly culture
• Flexible time-off allowance for vacation, sick days, and personal time as needed. We actively encourage team members to make use of this time-off policy
• The opportunity to work with well-known creators and brands, including Esther Perel, Colin & Samir, Shan Boodram, and Sophia Amoruso

As an organization headquartered in British Columbia, Rare Days is required to post the salary range if the position is to be filled locally. This range may be higher or lower for candidates based outside of BC, and actual pay will take into account the candidate's experience and competencies.

We understand that women and other marginalized groups may hesitate to apply for roles unless they meet every qualification. If this role excites you, but you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway! We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion, diversity, and hiring exceptional talent from around the world.

To find out more or apply for this role, please use the following link: Apply here