Full-Time

Lead Developer

Valsoft

Valsoft

501-1,000 employees

Acquires, grows vertical market software companies

No salary listed

Remote in Canada + 1 more

More locations: Québec City, QC, Canada

Remote

Bachelor's

Category
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Python
Git
Node.js
SQL
Postgres
RDBMS
.NET
C#
AWS
SCRUM

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Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
  • Demonstrated experience in technical leadership, architecture decision-making, and production software delivery.
  • Strong experience in C#/.NET development, ideally with Windows desktop applications, services, integrations, or other business-critical systems.
  • Experience as a senior developer maintaining and debugging large production codebases, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong knowledge of relational databases and SQL, including schema evolution, query design, performance, and data validation.
  • Extensive experience with or demonstrated proficiency in AI-assisted development tools and processes, including safe validation of AI-generated output.
  • Strong knowledge of software architecture, code review practices, automated testing, security, resilience, and technical debt management.
  • Strong proficiency with Git and collaborative Git workflows.
  • Experience with agile development methods, such as Scrum or Kanban.
  • Ability to estimate work, communicate technical trade-offs, manage risk, and turn strategy into a pragmatic delivery plan.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach developers, facilitate technical decisions, and create a collaborative, accountable team environment.
  • Initiative, autonomy, and comfort working with unfamiliar technologies and incomplete documentation.
  • Ability to work in English in a collaborative remote environment.
Responsibilities
  • Define and communicate the technical vision and strategy for legacy system modernization and the next-generation product with the CTO.
  • Design and maintain the current and target architecture spanning PowerBuilder, C#/.NET services, databases, integrations, and cloud components while ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
  • Establish and enforce coding standards, engineering best practices, architectural guidelines, and guardrails for AI-assisted development with the CTO.
  • Lead or oversee code and architecture reviews and ensure technical decisions are properly documented.
  • Design and validate architectural prototypes or proofs of concept to reduce uncertainty.
  • Make technical debt visible, prioritize it based on product needs, and lead improvements to development processes, tooling, testing, and delivery methods.
  • Identify technical, delivery, and team risks; define mitigation and rollback strategies; and ensure vulnerabilities and security issues are addressed promptly.
  • Support the COO and CTO with estimation, sequencing, milestone and deliverable tracking, and communication of technology impacts on client effort, cost, and risk.
  • Help determine capacity and staffing needs, participate in recruiting, ensure onboarding, coaching, and mentoring of team members, and contribute to conflict resolution and performance feedback.
  • Build working relationships across development, quality assurance, operations, product, and user experience/user interface teams so work moves efficiently from design to production.
  • Stay current on relevant industry tools, technologies, and practices and apply them pragmatically when they create real value.
  • Lead and execute refactoring of the PowerBuilder codebase and its C#/.NET services and integrations, including changes to queries, data access patterns, error handling, and business logic assumptions.
  • Modernize the data layer so the solution can adopt more modern database technology and schema while preserving data integrity, performance, and backward compatibility.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools such as Codex, Copilot, and ChatGPT to explore unfamiliar modules, produce refactoring proposals and modernization plans, accelerate test creation and documentation, and analyze repetitive modernization tasks.
  • Validate AI-generated changes through rigorous review, testing, and data checks.
  • Apply systematic refactoring and standardization of patterns, resilience, and error handling within legacy-system constraints.
  • Develop an automated testing strategy adapted to PowerBuilder, C#/.NET, and integrations.
  • Improve code review standards, maintainability, and technical documentation.
  • Validate performance, synchronization, and data integrity.
  • Create tools, processes, and guardrails that allow generalist developers to contribute safely to PowerBuilder modernization through AI-assisted processes.
  • Collaborate with the PowerBuilder team on target architecture, incremental execution, best practices, and knowledge transfer.
  • Collaborate across SQL Anywhere, PowerBuilder, C#/.NET services, integrations, and cloud components so modernization does not disrupt synchronization, integrations, or client processes.
  • Assess the current on-premise architecture, identify modernization and migration risks, and propose a systematic improvement plan.
  • Lead architecture and planning for the gradual migration of existing PowerBuilder features and C# components to a modern target solution.
  • Produce a roadmap covering phases, dependencies, milestones, client impacts, coexistence, backward compatibility, and rollback options.
  • Guide execution with the legacy systems team and broader engineering group while balancing modernization progress, product delivery, and operational stability.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with PowerBuilder, or strong curiosity and ability to quickly become self-sufficient through AI-assisted processes.
  • Direct experience with SQL Anywhere and/or PostgreSQL.
  • Proven experience modernizing and refactoring large, business-critical, imperfectly documented legacy codebases.
  • Experience with distributed on-premise environments, Windows desktop software, and constraints specific to client installations.
  • Experience planning and executing database or application migrations using phased rollout, coexistence, and backward compatibility strategies.
  • Experience with Python and/or Node.js for automation, tooling, or prototyping.
  • Experience with AWS, cloud integrations, or serverless architectures.
  • Ability to work in French.

Valsoft is a company that buys software businesses that serve specific, essential industries (like automotive and broadcasting) and helps them grow over the long term. It focuses on vertical market software—programs that are built for a particular industry—and keeps the acquired companies independent while giving them extra resources, best practices, and access to a global network. The core idea is to improve how these software businesses operate and expand their reach, rather than building new products from scratch. The main way Valsoft works is to purchase a niche software company, streamline its operations, and partner with the existing management team to drive steady growth. This approach sets Valsoft apart from others by emphasizing patient, long-term ownership and collaboration within a diverse portfolio of niche software. The goal is to create durable, profitable companies that continue to serve their essential customers efficiently and expand into new markets.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Growth Equity (Venture Capital)

Total Funding

$420M

Headquarters

Montreal, Canada

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • 2026 acquisitions added UnionTrack, Square 9, Dispatch, Clubspeed, Countfire, and PenguinData.
  • Square 9 and UnionTrack expand AI document processing and association software into new niches.
  • Revelio Labs counted 5,773 employees in March 2026, while 505 jobs were posted.

What critics are saying

  • AllTrust settlement in 2026 keeps Valsoft tied to a 2024 data breach.
  • Demand Bridge litigation in Delaware shows customer disputes can turn into courtroom fights.
  • A repeat breach across payroll, union, or document systems would damage Valsoft's buy-hold-forever pitch.

What makes Valsoft unique

  • Valsoft buys mission-critical vertical software and keeps companies autonomous under operating groups.
  • TAG, Manos, and Fluent concentrate acquisitions by niche, like unions, field service, education.
  • Long-term ownership attracts founders; UnionTrack, Square 9, and Clubspeed all stayed independent.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Wellness Program

Mental Health Support

Gym Membership

Conference Attendance Budget

Professional Development Budget

Stock Options

Company Equity

Phone/Internet Stipend

Home Office Stipend

Family Planning Benefits

Fertility Treatment Support

Parental Leave

Adoption Assistance

Childcare Support

Relocation Assistance

Employee Referral Bonus

Performance Bonus

Profit Sharing

Tuition Reimbursement

Professional Certification Support

Mentorship Program

Training Programs

Meal Benefits

Employee Discounts

Commuter Benefits

Legal Services

Freelance/Contractor Perks

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

14%

1 year growth

28%

2 year growth

2%
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