Workforce.com is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to be the first product and engineering hire in our new Vancouver office. You will play a key role in establishing our presence in Canada and lead the localisation of our Payroll product for the Canadian market.

Workforce.com (known as Tanda in Australia) already powers payroll in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, and now we are bringing that same reliability and innovation to Canada. This is a unique opportunity to have a direct impact on both product direction and the growth of a new regional team.

We are a bootstrapped company that has been funded by customers for over a decade. In the last two years, we have released two new Software Products, Payroll and HR, with plans to launch and grow many more. The product team powers our Workforce Management, HR, and Payroll products, deploying over 30 changes per day. We actively encourage our engineers to use AI where it makes sense; we want to be on the forefront of new tools and new ways of working.

We will only be considering candidates who are based in Vancouver (or willing to relocate), and excited to work in the office the majority of the time.

The traits we value at all levels are:

• Curiosity - you like to learn, and don’t make the same mistakes twice.

• Initiative - within reason, you are self-driven and always looking to make an impact. The more senior you get,

  the more we expect you to be manager of one

  ( https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1430-hire-managers-of-one )

• Problem solving - you are methodical in your approach to breaking apart problems and figuring out how to solve them in the best way possible under the constraints you face.

The salary range for this role is CAD 125-150k+ benefits.

You can read about our 11-year journey building Workforce.com here: https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/11-years-of-hosting-a-saas

The Work

At Workforce.com we

like boring and predictable technology

. Our product is a Ruby on Rails Monolith deployed on EC2 instances with PostgreSQL on RDS hosted on AWS. Heading into 2026, we have a lot of product to build, and a lot more customers to serve. We encourage Engineers to work with AI & make it easy to sign up to different tools you’d like to try.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first year, you'll:

• Have deep knowledge of our codebase and business domain
• Lead the implementation of several major product initiatives
• Improve our development practices through code reviews and technical documentation
• Help establish patterns and practices that make our monolith easier to work with
• Be a trusted voice in technical discussions and architectural decisions

About You

Your extensive Ruby on Rails experience is valuable, but if you have experience with another MVC framework like Laravel we think you’d be able to pick up Rails easily enough. You thrive on solving challenging technical problems and get energised when you see your solutions making a real difference for customers. You value clean code but understand that perfect is sometimes the enemy of good.

We expect that you have experience as a Senior Engineer, and have both the projects and impact to prove you can execute. You are comfortable leading from the front, demonstrating what it means to be a professional. You take your work seriously, and keep the customer at the centre of what you do.

You can expect to have a lot of ownership over your work. We enjoy working with curious people who take initiative and demand a high bar for themselves and the team they work with.

The Work

See your impact

We’re a small engineering team, but our product is global. You can personally have a huge impact on our customers’ productivity.

We’re not always sprinting

Our development cycle uses the Shape Up framework. Unlike a lot of “agile” frameworks - we have dedicated ‘cool-down’ time to breathe; using it to fix bugs, refactor, focus on professional development, and try out new technical possibilities.

Experience amazing opportunities

We recognise when people are exceptional, and as a scale-up, we’re flexible enough to give people new opportunities to excel, both in existing teams and in new teams/roles.

Solve deep and interesting problems

Workforce management is an innovative industry, and creative solutions are a necessity to thrive.

About Workforce.com

Workforce.com is an established, fast-growing tech company on a mission to build the world’s leading all-in-one workforce management platform. Our vision is to eliminate employment friction for shift and hourly workers, helping reduce global unemployment.

Our software helps businesses manage scheduling, time and attendance, payroll, labour compliance, and HR. We serve thousands of customers from our Brisbane headquarters and global offices in Chicago, London, and now Vancouver.

If you are excited by the idea of building a world-class product for Canada, and being part of Workforce.com's next chapter of global growth, we would love to chat.