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Lead SWE | ON SITE TORONTO MUST BE ON SITE. REMOTE WILL BE IGNORED | $130,000 – $210,000 CAD | FOUNDER-LEVEL EQUITY | Founder with 3x successful exits| We are building enterprise-grade, white-label reporting infrastructure for municipal governments across North America. Full technical decisions

Multi-tenant cloud architecture supporting Canadian data residency requirements Compliance framework buildout: SOC 2, PIPEDA, MFIPPA, security standards relevant to Canadian municipal procurement

Technical hiring as team grows

5+ years in cloud infrastructure or backend engineering with direct exposure to multi-tenant architecture, data residency, and uptime SLA commitments

Shipped production systems where a bug has legal or compliance consequences

Hands-on with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PIPEDA, or equivalent regulated environments

Can review and challenge AI-generated code and architectural decisions. Not threatened by AI tooling, not blindly trusting it

Can represent the technical platform for government IT evaluators

Comfortable inheriting existing TypeScript / Node.js / PostgreSQL codebase

Located in Toronto or willing to relocate

ben [at] civtiq [dot] com