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Who We Are
At Certn, we’re revolutionizing background screening with The World’s Easiest Background Check—fast, global, and powered by tech. We’re not about outdated processes and red tape. We’re about innovation, speed, and impact. If you’re looking for a place where ownership, collaboration, and creativity thrive, this is it.
The Role:
We’re hunting for an Intermediate Engineer located in Canada. As part of a cross-functional product-engineering squad, you’ll design, build, and maintain scalable software solutions, from concept through deployment. You’ll work closely with senior developers, product managers, and designers to ensure our products exceed business goals.
What You'll be Doing:
End-to-End Feature Delivery: Translate specs into code, build clean, well-tested features across the stack (front-end frameworks like React/Angular and back-end frameworks like Django), and ensure seamless integration.
Codebase Maintenance: Refactor legacy code, squash technical debt, and optimize performance. Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support critical services and ensure platform reliability during and outside business hours
Peer Code Reviews: Provide feedback, enforce team-wide best practices, and champion maintainability and scalability.
Agile Collaboration: Dive into daily standups, sprint planning, and retros with product, design, and other engineering teammates to keep the release train on schedule.
What You Bring to the Table:
Multi-Language Expertise: Own feature development end-to-end using two or more modern programming languages; experience with Python is a nice-to-have.
Database Expertise: Strong understanding of relational databases (schema design, indexing, and query performance).
Front-End Expertise: Experience working with React or Angular to deliver polished user interfaces.
Agile DNA: Hands-on experience delivering SaaS in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments.
Collaborative Communication: Stellar written/verbal skills to work effectively with product managers, designers, and stakeholders.
Cloud Proficiency (AWS): Proven ability to deploy, configure, and troubleshoot applications in AWS.
Why You Should Be Excited:
Vacation Mode On: 4 weeks of paid vacation + additional health & wellness time off.
Health and Benefits: Comprehensive Package for you and your dependents.
Flex Life: Fully remote setup with a home-office allowance and flex stipend.
Growth Fuel: Budget to attend industry conferences, pursue certifications, or take advanced courses.
Impact & Ownership: Own critical system components that directly affect customer experience and platform stability.
Team Energy: Collaborate with passionate engineers who value craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and collective success.
A Little Bit More About Us
If you’re stoked by the chance to drive bold innovation, smash silos, and deliver world-class products, we want to hear from you. Let’s build something epic together
Certn is a growing global technology company that is looking to reinvent the way organizations build Trust in People with technology and AI-backed background checks. Having recently been named one of Canada’s Companies-to-Watch in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ Awards, we are becoming one of the fastest-growing start-ups.
Just so you know… The selected candidate will be required to complete a background check. This means you will get to see first hand what we do (and trust us, we do it REALLY well)!
Certn takes pride in being an advocate for equal opportunities in the workplace. Our commitment is reflected in how we’re creating a workplace that’s respectful, inclusive, and free from barriers—a place where each member of our team can achieve their full potential. We firmly believe that the strength of our company is rooted in diversity, and we encourage every individual to bring their authentic selves to work. We extend a warm welcome to all qualified candidates and hope that you'll consider Certn as your preferred employer, where you can thrive and contribute to our collective success.
If you have a disability that requires accommodation during any stage of our recruitment process, please let us know how we can best assist you.
