7shifts is an all-in-one team management software platform designed for the restaurant industry. We're used by 1 in 10 restaurant workers and over 50,000 restaurants across North America. Our mission is to simplify Team Management and improve performance for restaurants, with a long-term vision of elevating what restaurant teams can achieve together.
As a Software Engineer at 7shifts, you'll collaborate with a cross-functional team to deliver impactful features that transform how restaurants operate. Reporting to an Engineering Manager, you'll design, implement, and optimize scalable solutions while contributing to our engineering roadmap. By advocating for simplicity, prioritizing technical excellence, and acting as an owner, you'll help maintain system reliability and foster innovation. Partnering closely with product, design, and other engineering teams, you'll play a key role in creating tools that save restaurants time, reduce stress, and build more engaged, happy teams.
We're building an inclusive work environment that is representative of the diverse industry we have the pleasure of serving and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
What you'll do:
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team to deliver customer-facing features that simplify restaurant management and boost employee engagement
- Design and implement features from ideation to delivery and adoption, ensuring impactful solutions that align with user needs and business goals
- Propose solutions that contribute meaningfully to sprint planning, driving measurable progress toward team objectives
- Engage in pair programming to foster knowledge transfer and continual learning, strengthening team collaboration and technical expertise
- Advocate for simplicity in architectural designs, creating scalable solutions that support long-term system health
- Research, communicate, and implement best practices within your team's domain, elevating code quality and development processes
- Identify and prioritize technical debt, contributing to the engineering roadmap to maintain system reliability and enable future growth
What you bring:
- 3+ years of software development experience, with flexibility for exceptional candidates who demonstrate strong technical skills and potential
- Proficiency in server-side web programming languages such as PHP, Ruby, Java, Python, C#, or similar, with the ability to adapt and learn quickly
- Solid experience working with SQL and relational databases, ensuring efficient data handling and integration
- Familiarity with modern single-page application (SPA) JavaScript frameworks like Angular, ReactJS, Vue, or EmberJS, enabling dynamic and interactive web development
- A problem-solving mindset with a focus on solving with simplicity, balancing innovation and practicality to create user-friendly solutions
- A strong sense of ownership, demonstrating accountability and initiative in driving projects forward and acting like an owner in every task
- Commitment to open and honest communication, embracing radical candor to provide and receive constructive feedback that fosters growth and improvement.
It'd be even cooler if you had:
- Experience in SaaS and/or restaurant-tech, delivering customer-focused solutions
- Opportunity: It's an exciting time to work at 7shifts—our product is evolving and our team is scaling quickly. Scale like this offers many unique learning opportunities in a short period of time, accelerating the professional growth of our team members
- Challenge: We're tackling real problems for restaurant owners and we're just getting started. Working at 7shifts means playing a key role in solving those problems and elevating an entire industry
- Culture: There's a reason we're one of the best workplaces in North America! We value integrity, adaptability and collaboration in an environment that moves quickly to drive incredible impact
- Equity: Equity in a Series C, VC-backed SaaS company—enabling every team member to be an owner of their future success!
- Health and Wellness: Competitive health benefits right from the start, lifestyle spending accounts, access to corporate discounts, and a parental leave program that supports caregivers during an important time in their lives
- Flexibility: Our team is intentional around how and where we work—whether that's remotely, in person at our Toronto and Saskatoon offices, or a mix of both. Plus, we offer a flexible vacation policy to encourage everyone to recharge when they need it. Oh, and a '90 Day Shift' program that supports our team members in exploring the world
- Support: We set our team members up for success with the latest Apple technology, a home office set up, and some fun 7shifts swag to make it official! Plus, we take professional growth seriously and support this through coaching, IDPs, peer and leader feedback, internal promotions, and more