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Senior Software Engineer

FOSSA, Inc. is a software supply chain platform that helps enterprises manage open source license compliance and security vulnerabilities, enabling them to build software securely and efficiently.

FOSSA

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 120k-200k CAD

Canada only

If you’re like us, you agree that open source software is a wonderful and unique gift that the community of software developers across the world have given to each other. At FOSSA, we want to proliferate its usage with our software supply chain management platform that helps our customers know what licenses, vulnerabilities, and dependencies go into their software as they utilize open source software packages. And we won’t rest until all companies, big and small, love and feel as comfortable with using open source as we are.

FOSSA is a rapidly growing series-B company with a truly distributed team. While our roots are in San Francisco, our growing team has members in several countries across many time zones. We’re always working to find the perfect balance of effective approaches to distributed work, while maintaining the direct personal connections that help us work better together and love our jobs.

As a senior software engineer on our team, you'll be working closely with the whole company to bring features from ideation to implementation. Your participation will have a significant impact on our company roadmap, and you'll be able to see the outsized impact that your work has on our revenue. Your day-to-day will be largely determined by what you want to work on: in a team of our size, our engineering team also helps own our product, customer success, and growth functions.

In this role you will:

  • Work closely with the whole company to plan, design, build, and refine core product features.
  • Own user-impacting features from conception to completion.
  • Build and scale our core product and technical infrastructure.
  • Have significant ownership in our technical architecture and product roadmap.
  • Work in a variety of languages including Rust, Go, Typescript, and Haskell.

About you:

  • Experience building and supporting scalable SaaS products and features.
  • Experience as a full-stack software engineer owning and building features end-to-end.
  • Experience with relational databases and writing performant SQL queries.
  • Ability to break down complex problems, drive towards a solution, and communicate it with the team and other stakeholders (both verbally and written).
  • You're comfortable navigating complex domains and building intuitive software for them.
  • You thrive in an environment that prefers prototypes over proposals.
  • Proactive in sharing ideas and informed opinions with others
  • Attention to detail and quality to anticipate edge cases ahead of time
  • A growth mindset and willingness to learn new things
  • You have 3+ years of experience working as a backend engineer.
  • Willingness to take part in an on-call rotation.
  • Ability to mentor and be mentored by others.
  • Experience with observability tooling

Why you'll love working at FOSSA:

  • Amazing team culture and environment
  • Named by Built In as Best Start-up to work for 2024, 2025 and Forbes 2022
  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Unlimited PTO

FOSSA is an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

The annual cash compensation range for this position is $120,000 - $200,000 CAD. Final compensation will be determined based on experience and skills and may vary from the range listed.

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Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Salary: 120k-200k CAD

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Canada +/- 0 hours

About FOSSA

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At FOSSA, we're on a mission to make open source ubiquitous, risk-free, and exponentially more valuable. For a decade, we've been at the forefront of pioneering open source risk management, empowering developers to build with confidence and speed. We understand that in today's software-driven world, the friction between rapid development and stringent compliance can be a significant hurdle. That's why we've built the world's most complete software supply chain management platform, designed to help organizations like yours confidently embrace the power of open source.

Our platform provides comprehensive visibility and automation, safeguarding your business interests without burdening your development teams with cumbersome manual compliance tasks. We help engineering and legal teams effectively manage software licenses, security vulnerabilities, and code quality. FOSSA automatically scans and analyzes your codebase to identify open source dependencies, offering tools to ensure continuous compliance and security. We're passionate about building a company and a product that reflects our core principles of transparency, accountability, and a bias to action. We foster a low-ego, inclusive environment where every member of our team can drive meaningful change and contribute to our collective success. We believe in experimenting boldly, learning from every outcome, and relentlessly pursuing solutions that maximize positive impact for our customers. We're looking for driven individuals who are ready to take ownership and help us accelerate the value creation of open source software for enterprises globally.

We're proud to be recognized as a Great Place to Work®, a testament to the supportive and positive culture we've intentionally cultivated since day one. Our focus is on enabling engineering, security, and legal teams to get complete and continuous risk mitigation for their entire software supply chain, seamlessly integrated into their existing workflows. From identifying third-party code across thousands of development pipelines to reliably enforcing compliance and security policies and automating end-to-end reporting, we equip global enterprises to build world-class products that are compliant, secure, and utilize high-quality third-party code. Join us as we continue to remove the friction between speed and compliance, helping companies accelerate open source adoption securely and efficiently.

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Paid holidays

Offered to employees.

Flexible time off

Offered to employees.

Bereavement leave benefits

Offered to employees.

Pet-friendly office

Our SF office is dog friendly.

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