Hi, We're Rare Days!

About Rare Days

We're a multi-disciplinary digital product agency obsessed with helping creators build lasting legacies. Since 2020, we've built products at the sweet spot where content meets commerce, empowering established creators and content-led businesses to transform their passion into sustainable success.

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Our clients include world-renowned creators like Esther Perel, Dr. Becky, Colin & Samir, and Ryan Trahan, as well as organizations like Airbnb, Notion, and Ziff Davis. We specialize in community-first platforms, membership tools, and creator infrastructure — and we build with care, context, and a clear point of view.

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We’re a fully remote team based in Canada and are open to candidates able to work within 4 hours of PST.

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About the Role

We are hiring a Lead Engineer with deep backend expertise and strong fluency across modern web stacks. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on technical challenges, loves building scalable systems, and enjoys collaborating with product, design, and client teams.

You’ll work both independently and with small teams, depending on the project, write production code, and play a key role in steering technical direction.

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Core Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Development

• Oversee day-to-day engineering work, keeping the team unblocked and aligned on priorities
• Architect scalable backend systems using languages and frameworks such as Go and Python. Experience with Kotlin is a plus.
• Contribute to frontend work using React and TypeScript as needed
• Drive decision-making around performance, scalability, and system design
• Write clean, maintainable code and ensure engineering best practices are followed
• Lead technical documentation, sprint planning, and ongoing delivery

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Collaboration & Client Engagement

• Partner with product managers and designers to define and scope solutions
• Lead client-facing conversations around technical strategy and progress
• Present work during demos, milestone check-ins, and roadmap reviews
• Balance business needs with technical feasibility in collaborative planning sessions

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Team Mentorship & Culture

• Provide regular feedback and guidance to engineers
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and leveling processes
• Help foster a strong, inclusive engineering culture rooted in transparency and accountability
• Identify opportunities to improve our tools, processes, and technical standards

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What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of professional engineering experience
• English proficiency
• Experience with Go and Python, including system architecture and performance optimization, is required. Kotlin experience is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of React, NextJS and Typescript
• Backend experience with APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), cloud services (AWS, GCP), and distributed systems
• You can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences and are comfortable leading presentations and deep-dive technical discussions
• You understand how to compromise on business trade-offs and technical decisions
• You can design and communicate robust, scalable technical solutions that our internal and client teams understand and want to work on, and you understand how to achieve compromise on business trade-offs and technical decisions.
• You're comfortable dealing with uncertainty and are capable of disambiguating complex scope and domains to your team
• You care about people and are motivated to help your team members achieve success on projects.

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Bonus Skills

• Experience building creator platforms, media tools, or community-driven products
• Familiarity with GraphQL, gRPC, or microservice infrastructure
• Interest in developer experience, automation, or DevOps tooling

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Compensation and Benefits

• Extended health benefits for Canadian employees
• Flexible working hours and a remote-friendly culture
• Flexible time-off allowance for vacation, sick days, and personal time as needed. We actively encourage team members to make use of this time-off policy
• Extended healthcare benefits for Canadian employees
• The opportunity to work with well-known creators and brands, including Esther Perel, Colin & Samir, Shan Boodram, and Sophia Amoruso
• Compensation: $120,000.00 - $140,000.00 per year