Intermediate Software Engineer at AppDirect in Calgary, Canada

Job description

• You'll join a small, high-ownership team building Tackle's marketplace post-transaction experience — the systems that keep contracts, invoices, payments, and metered usage in sync after a deal is sold, and the product surfaces vendors use to act on that data.
• Your day-to-day work spans the full stack on both the backend (Node.js, Go) and frontend (React), running on AWS across Lambda, API
• Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge, SQS, Step Functions, ECS, and Postgres. Because the team is small, you'll own meaningful portions of the product end to end: from a cloud marketplace API, through the pipelines that build a contract or deliver a usage record, to the React UI and public APIs customers rely on.
• You bring a growth mindset to your work — you're comfortable asking questions, learning unfamiliar cloud APIs quickly, and closing gaps through curiosity rather than waiting for perfect prior experience. You communicate clearly in a distributed team setting and take pride in writing code that is testable, maintainable, and ready for production.

Responsibilities

• What you'll do and how you'll have an impact
• Build and maintain full-stack features across Tackle's post-transaction product, exposing that data to customers through a React frontend and TypeScript/Node.js and Go backends.
• Design and implement backend services on AWS, including serverless, event-driven systems (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge, SQS, Step Functions).
• Own and evolve data integrations with AWS, Microsoft, and Google marketplaces, and publish change events that downstream systems consume.
• Take end-to-end ownership of features — from design through deployment and operation — on a team where your contributions are immediately visible in production, including customer APIs, CRM integrations, and notifications when data changes.
• Collaborate daily with a product manager and other engineers to shape how marketplace billing and usage data is modeled, synced, and surfaced in the product.
• Participate in code reviews to uphold code quality standards and share knowledge across a small engineering team.

Requirements

• What we're looking for
• 2+ years of professional experience building full-stack web applications, with working knowledge of both frontend and backend layers.
• Professional experience with React and TypeScript (or strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript with demonstrated readiness to work in a TypeScript-only codebase).
• Hands-on experience deploying applications on AWS, particularly with serverless services such as Lambda, API Gateway, or DynamoDB. Familiarity with event-driven patterns (EventBridge, SQS, Step Functions, or DynamoDB streams) is a plus.
• Comfort working with external APIs and moving or transforming data between systems and keeping search indexes and CRM records in step.
• Comfort working with AI coding tools. We use Cursor heavily.
• A strong sense of ownership, because on a team this small you will hold significant responsibility for product areas and need to drive work forward with limited direction.
• Intellectual curiosity that leads you to understand how your code fits into the broader system.

Skills

Required

• React
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• Go
• AWS
• Lambda
• API Gateway
• DynamoDB
• EventBridge
• SQS
• Step Functions

Benefits

• The salary band listed below reflects the expected annual base salary or OTE (on-target earnings) for this role at AppDirect and may be subject to change.
• Base salary or OTE is just one component of AppDirect’s total compensation package. In addition to base pay, regular employees may be eligible for performance-based bonuses and a full range of benefits.
• $100,000 - $120,000 CAD