Software Engineer

Job description

Location: Hybrid, Montreal Type: Full-time, permanent role. Competitive salary plus meaningful equity and benefits. About the Role We're building the technology that runs real, acquired businesses — the systems behind quoting, scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, field operations, and everything else that keeps a blue-collar business moving. It isn't software for software's sake; it ships to companies we own and gets used by real crews the week after you build it. That's a rare feedback loop, and it's the whole point of building here. We're looking for an intermediate full-stack engineer who can own a build from end to end — take something from a rough idea to something real people rely on, without needing every corner specified first. You'll have real ownership over what you build and how, and a direct line to the people using it. Around five years of experience is a good marker, but it's not a hard line — if you're earlier and clearly excellent, we want to talk. This Is Not For You If… You need a fully scoped backlog before you can move, rather than working through ambiguity. You'd rather own one narrow layer than take a feature from front end to back end and out the door. You want to stay far from the customer and just take tickets. You'd rather join something already built than help lay the foundation. What You'll Do Own builds end to end — design, build, ship, and iterate on features that go straight into businesses we operate. Work full-stack across the product, from data and back-end services to the interfaces field teams actually use. Help set the technical direction, conventions, and tooling as an early engineer on a small team. Get close to the businesses we acquire — talk to operators, understand real workflows, and build tools people actually want. Move fast against a deliberate plan, in close partnership with product, ops, and the rest of engineering. Who You Are You can carry a build end to end and take real ownership of the outcome, not just your slice of it. Strong full-stack fundamentals and good judgment about when to do it right and when to do it fast. Around five years of experience is a good guide — but exceptional and earlier beats experienced and fine. You do well in ambiguity, and you like being close to the people your software serves. Nice to Haves Experience building from scratch in an early-stage environment, a startup, or your own projects. Fluency with modern applied AI — LLMs, agents, and the practical trade-offs of shipping reliable AI features. Interest in the physical, built world and the operators who run it. How to Apply Please send us either a short Loom video (preferred), your CV or a brief summary of your experience. Our Chief of Staff, Alexandra Kiekens, will reach out to you via LinkedIn to schedule a short 10-minute introductory phone call as the first step of the interview process. About Meroka Meroka exists to create generational wealth for the people who run the local economy — to power those who power everyday life. Practically, we acquire physical-economy, blue-collar, built-world businesses and enable them with technology so they can last forever. We're focused on longevity and succession. We don't roll everything up under one brand — we preserve each company's local name, its autonomy, and the hard-won knowledge of the operators who built it. Here's what gets us out of bed: the physical world is starved for labor while demand for building and infrastructure keeps climbing. Build genuinely good systems for it and you don't shrink the workforce — you grow it. More work, better jobs, better pay, better benefits, and a better life for the frontline workers who keep everyday life running and who've been overlooked by technology for decades. That's the wealth we're trying to create, and we're starting in Canada with room to expand internationally over time. We've raised roughly $25M CAD from Slow Ventures, 8VC, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Interplay, and others. Our first business is acquired, with many more to come. Between us, the founding team has built and run construction-tech businesses at real scale (think $100M in revenue and 600+ people), invested as venture capitalists, led M&A for public companies, designed novel deal structures and joint ventures, run manufacturing lines, and started companies of our own — some that worked, some that taught us a lot. So while this is an early-stage company where you'll have outsized impact, it comes with the runway and stability of a company that's already raised real capital and closed real deals. We also get everyone together twice a year at an offsite, because in-person is how we work best, and because it's fun. We have one foot on the job site and one foot in Silicon Valley. A morning building product and talking to top-tier investors; an afternoon in a truck headed to a site to see how the work actually gets done — steel-toe boots optional, but you'll want them eventually. And because we own our customers, you build and deploy to real businesses without sales cycles or convincing anyone to adopt you. Even a handful of acquisitions touches tens of thousands of households and thousands of frontline workers — the work you do here will be felt by millions downstream within a few years.