Staff Software Engineer

Hi, we are ecobee.

ecobee introduced the world’s first smart Wi-Fi thermostat to help millions of consumers save money, conserve energy, and bring home automation into their lives. That was just the beginning. We continue our pursuit to create technology that brings peace of mind into the home and allows people to focus on the moments that matter most. We take pride in making a meaningful difference to the environment, all while being part of the exciting, connected home revolution.

In 2021, ecobee became a subsidiary of Generac Power Systems. Generac introduced the first affordable backup generator and later created the category of automatic home standby generator. The company is committed to sustainable, cleaner energy products poised to revolutionize the 21st century electrical grid. Together, we take pride in making a meaningful difference to the environment.

Why we love to do what we do:

We’re helping build the world of tomorrow with solutions that improve everyday life while making a positive impact on the planet. Our products and services work in harmony to provide comfort, efficiency, and peace of mind for millions of homes and businesses. While we’re proud of what we’ve done so far, there’s still a lot we can do—and you can be part of it. 

Join our extraordinary team.

We're a rapidly growing global tech company headquartered in Canada, in the heart of downtown Toronto, with an office in Leeds, UK, and remote ecopeeps in the US. We get to work with some of North America and UK's leading professionals. Our colleagues are proud to bring their authentic selves to work, confident that what we do is grounded in a greater purpose. We’re always looking for curious, talented, and passionate people to join our team.

Who You’ll Be Joining: 

You'll join the Energy Software Engineering leadership team alongside five Engineering Managers, reporting directly to the Sr Director of Engineering. The team collectively owns the software that keeps millions of homes comfortable, efficient, and connected. Your fingerprints will be across the full stack: the mobile experiences that customers interact with on a daily basis, the utility integrations powering smarter energy grids, the smart building tools that help property managers operate at scale, the APIs that a growing ecosystem of third-party developers builds on, and the connectivity and platform services that hold it all together. The scale is real, the problems are hard, and the impact on people’s lives is tangible. If you're looking for a role where the surface area is wide, the ownership is genuine, and there's always something worth building, this is it!

This role follows a hybrid schedule, with in-office work required on Wednesdays and Thursdays from our Toronto office to support collaboration, and flexibility to work remotely for the remainder of the week.

How You’ll Make an Impact: 

• Strengthen our AI enablement foundations to accelerate adoption of agentic workflows within our engineering teams.
• Partner with principal and staff engineers to improve our engineering practices.
• Architectural Impact: Contribute to ecobee’s system architecture with designs that have been battle-tested, resulting in significant, long-lasting impact within a specific domain. Solutions are expected to integrate elegantly with ecobee’s broader enterprise architecture and align with company-wide standards.
• Ownership & Delivery: Take end-to-end ownership of full components within your domain of expertise, ensuring that their design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations meet high standards. These components will likely interact with systems in other domains, requiring careful consideration of cross-team dependencies.
• Code Quality & Debugging: Consistently deliver high-quality, maintainable code. Lead by example in debugging tough, stack-wide issues, finding root causes, and implementing effective solutions.
• Forward-Thinking & Strategic Initiatives: Anticipate future challenges and propose technical solutions that prevent future roadblocks. Participate in evaluating and recommending new technologies and frameworks for the product group.
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Actively mentor other engineers, guiding them toward concrete goals and fostering a culture of feedback and knowledge sharing. Lead or participate in design reviews, post-mortems, and code reviews.
• Innovation & Impact: Drive innovative improvements to processes and best practices across the engineering organization. Contribute to novel solutions that influence ecobee’s engineering direction and deliver measurable, high-impact results across multiple teams and domains.
• Cross-team Collaboration: Facilitate and lead discussions across squads, ensuring inclusive decision-making processes and cross-functional buy-in on technical solutions and business decisions. Serve as a trusted advisor and leader within ecobee’s engineering community.

What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of owning and delivering complex, cross-domain projects at scale.
• Experience in building agentic workflows in large-scale systems
• Expertise in system design, architecture, and the development of large-scale, high-availability and secure systems.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks including Go, Java, TypeScript, C++, Python, etc.
• AI forward thinker who models how an AI-First engineer could work
• Expertise in messaging queue processing (e.g., PubSub, RabbitMQ, Kafka) and real-time data handling.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
• Experience optimizing database performance and system tuning, ensuring that database and application interactions are fast, reliable, and scalable.
• Demonstrated ability to debug tough, stack-wide issues across multiple environments, finding root causes and implementing long-term fixes.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor, lead technical discussions, and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.
• Strong debugging skills, with experience solving complex, stack-wide issues that involve mobile devices and cloud-based services.

Just so you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check

Generac is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role based in Toronto, ON is $160,000 - $214,100 CAD. This compensation will ultimately be in line with the location in which the position is filled. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, certifications and geographic location. This role is eligible for variable compensation including short term and long-term incentives.

This position includes a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental and vision plans; life, long-term disability, flexible spending and health savings accounts, accrued paid time off, paid Holidays (10 for Ontario, 11 for British Columbia) and RRSP retirement benefits

The Company is committed to improving accessibility for Canadian with disabilities and to ensuring that all our employees and applicants have the support and the tools they need to succeed. We have developed policies relating to human rights, accessibility, and accommodation, and provide all our employees with training on accessibility including under provincial legislation such as the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, either during orientation and/or on an ongoing basis. If you feel you need accommodation in relation to a disability in the application process or in the future, or have a question or concern about our policies, please reach out to [email protected]

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