Quick Summary
About Liferaft
Liferaft develops software that empowers organizations to identify, comprehend, and address potential risks derived from publicly available information. Our global clientele includes corporate security teams from leading organizations worldwide. As a remote-first company, we are dedicated to cultivating a high-performing, values-driven team that operates with clarity, discipline, accountability, and care.
Liferaft was recently acquired by Securitas, a global security company, enhancing our capacity to deliver intelligence-led security solutions at scale. Together, our advanced technology and security expertise enable organizations to safeguard their personnel, assets, and operations, making a significant positive impact globally.
About the Role
Liferaft is seeking a highly skilled and visionary Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the ongoing growth and enhancement of our customer-facing platform, which is crucial for protecting people and assets. This position offers flexibility as a hybrid role in Halifax, NS, or can be fully remote within the Eastern or Atlantic time zones in Canada.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager, this individual will play a pivotal role in advancing our sophisticated open-source threat intelligence platform. You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership and core product engineering teams to develop new features and capabilities across various domains, including data acquisition, data visualization, and comprehensive threat intelligence and management.
For this Senior Software Engineer opportunity, we are particularly interested in candidates with a strong focus on backend and data engineering.
What You Will Do as a Senior Software Engineer
- Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to architect, build, and maintain our customer-facing threat intelligence platform, ensuring alignment with customer and market requirements.
- Actively participate in standups, design and sprint reviews, bug bashes, and sprint kickoff activities for product releases.
- Continuously analyze and optimize our platform to guarantee an exceptional customer experience.
- Evaluate and propose new technologies and methodologies to ensure adherence to industry best practices.
- Leverage agile practices to foster collaboration, prioritize tasks, and maintain urgency for rapid development cycles.
- Develop and maintain scalable data ingestion and processing systems, ensuring reliable and efficient collection, processing, and availability of high-volume data.
Requirements
Key Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience with Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, or similar programming languages for backend and API development.
- 5 years of experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or other RDBMSs, coupled with a solid understanding of SQL and database schema design.
- 5+ years of experience with JavaScript / TypeScript, CSS, HTML, browser security models, and browser APIs.
- Proven experience with React for front-end development.
- Experience with ElasticSearch or similar technologies is a plus.
- A creative problem solver who excels in collaborative environments and possesses a passion for continuous learning.
- A genuine passion for data.
- Truly passionate about agile development, iterative improvement, and delivering value early and often.
- Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with PHP and Laravel is a plus.
Benefits
Why Join Liferaft?
At Liferaft, we recognize that our people are our most valuable asset. We foster a collaborative, supportive team environment that embraces fresh thinking and works collectively to enhance our operations. Consequently, we prioritize ensuring our total rewards package accurately reflects the value our team brings, with ongoing reviews to maintain competitiveness, fairness, and relevance as the market and our company evolve.
Our Comprehensive Benefits Package Includes:
- Competitive compensation plan.
- Flexible PTO – Our team is encouraged to take a minimum of 15 days per year with no upper limit.
- Hybrid workplace model with flexible working hours.
- Health & Dental Benefits (Medavie Blue Cross).
- 80% employer-paid benefits.
- Orthodontic coverage for minor dependents.
- Comprehensive mental health coverage, up to $3,000 per year, available for employees and dependents.
- Free access to EAP, Greenshield, and a variety of physical and mental health services via our wellness platform.
- $750 Yearly Lifestyle Subsidy.
- Monthly cell phone reimbursement.
- Monthly parking reimbursement.
- Company-sponsored social events and team-building activities.
- Strong culture of employee recognition.
- Monthly peer-nominated “Cheers” awards with gift card draws.
- Quarterly Performance Awards recognizing exceptional impact, collaboration, and innovation.
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee.
- An authentic, engaged team that values work-life balance.
We are dedicated to building a company future generations can be proud of. Diversity at Liferaft means cultivating a workplace where individual differences are recognized, appreciated, respected, and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person's talents and strengths. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
This hiring process may utilize AI-supported tools to assist with application screening and evaluation. This role represents an existing position within the organization.