SWE (Fullstack) DevX

Purpose in Every Position.

At Velocity Global, we believe that success knows no borders—and it’s built by teams working together across them. Our unified, tech-enabled platform empowers businesses to hire, pay, and support talent in 185+ countries, making global growth not just possible, but seamless. Behind every expansion and every solution is a spirit of collaboration between our teams and the companies we serve. With AI-powered tools and human-first service, we simplify the complexity of global workforce management so businesses can focus on what matters: their people, their purpose, and their potential.

Where Your Work Moves the Needle.

At Velocity Global, every team member helps shape our success. When you join us, you don’t just fill a role—you live our values. They guide how we work, collaborate, and make an impact across borders. By bringing these principles to life, you’ll help us grow stronger, move faster, and lead the future of global work.

✔️Doing the Right Thing

Making authentic, values-driven decisions that build trust—even when no one is watching.

✔️Winning as a Team

Collaborating across diverse perspectives and skill sets to achieve shared goals and celebrate collective success.

✔️Leading with Curiosity

Asking thoughtful questions, challenging assumptions, and exploring new possibilities to drive innovation.

✔️Connecting with Empathy

Valuing each person’s unique background and perspective to build an inclusive culture that fosters belonging and creativity.

✔️Driving for Impact

Staying tenacious, customer-focused, and committed to delivering results that make a real difference.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience (DevX) team. The ideal candidate is passionate about improving the SDLC process while enhancing the total developer experience here at Velocity Global. You will play a pivotal role in optimizing tools, workflows, and infrastructure to help our engineers ship high quality software faster and with confidence. You'll work closely with software engineers, DevOps, and product teams to identify friction points in the development process, automate repetitive tasks, and build systems that scale with our growing engineering team.

This role is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Analyze and enhance the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to improve developer efficiency and satisfaction
• Build and maintain internal tools and services that streamline code building, testing, deployment, and observability
• Collaborate with engineering teams to understand pain points and develop solutions that improve day-to-day productivity
• Lead initiatives to standardize and improve CI/CD pipelines, development environments, and build systems
• Champion best practices in code quality, automation, and observability
• Instrument metrics and feedback loops to continuously evaluate the effectiveness of developer tooling
• Contribute to documentation and onboarding resources to make development more intuitive for new engineers
• Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and code reviews to maintain high engineering standards.

Let's Connect If You:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on Internal Tools or Platform Engineering within a cloud native architecture.
• Experience with TypeScript, Postgres, and AWS (Lambda, EKS, DynamoDB , RDS PgSQL, API Gateway, S3, etc.).
• Solid understanding of software design patterns, microservices architecture, and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI)
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• A strong sense of developer empathy and a passion for optimizing engineering workflows
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a team-oriented mindset.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Successful experience managing the community-to-customer lifecycle across complementary open source and commercial offerings.
• Experience working on platform or internal developer tooling teams
• Familiarity with monorepos or large-scale codebases
• Knowledge of performance profiling, test optimization, or build caching
• Experience with observability tools (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)
• Contributions to open-source developer tools

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The base pay depends upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified. 

Our Commitment to You

At Velocity Global, we’re committed to supporting our team with comprehensive rewards and benefits designed to meet diverse needs across roles and locations. Our core offerings include:

• Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to recharge.
  
  
• Parental Leave – Support for growing families.
  
  
• Health and Dental Insurance – Where applicable, to cover you and your loved ones.
  
  
• Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan – Plan for the future while sharing our success.

Please visit our career page for more information.