Job Description

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at a glance...

Location: Toronto, ON

Hybrid: 3 days/week

We’re hiring a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join one of our product engineering pods, building and evolving features end-to-end across frontend and backend systems. You’ll partner closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to ship high-quality, reliable software that directly affects user experience and product outcomes. This role is hands-on and highly collaborative — the ability to communicate clearly, present technical decisions, and align cross-functional partners is as important as the code you write.

What's on the menu?

Product Development

  • Design and implement end-to-end product features across frontend and backend

  • Build responsive, performant user interfaces using React (TypeScript)

  • Develop scalable APIs and backend services using Python (FastAPI)

  • Translate product requirements into clean, maintainable code

System Design & Implementation

  • Contribute to application architecture and technical design decisions

  • Ensure code quality, performance, and scalability of services

  • Work with relational databases — data modeling, schema, and migrations

  • Integrate with internal and external APIs

Quality & Delivery

  • Write unit and integration tests to ensure reliability

  • Participate in code reviews and uphold engineering standards

  • Contribute to CI/CD workflows and deployment processes

  • Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues

Collaboration & Communication

  • Partner with product managers and designers to refine requirements and shape solutions

  • Communicate technical trade-offs and risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

  • Present technical designs, approaches, and post-mortems in team forums and reviews

  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; share knowledge across the pod

  • Participate actively in sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and other team routines

Recipe for Success - apply now if this sounds like you!

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering

  • Strong hands-on experience with:

  • JavaScript / TypeScript (React)

  • Python (FastAPI)

  • RESTful API design and backend development

  • SQL and database design

  • Experience building and shipping production-grade applications

  • Experience working with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)

  • Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices

  • Ability to work independently and take ownership in a product-focused team

  • Communication & Soft Skills:

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English — fluent professional proficiency required

  • Confident presenting technical concepts, trade-offs, and decisions to engineers, product managers, and senior stakeholders

  • Strong active-listening and stakeholder-management skills; able to navigate ambiguity and align partners around solutions

  • Comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback in code reviews, design discussions, and retrospectives

  • Collaborative, low-ego, and pragmatic — prioritizes team and product outcomes over individual preference

  • Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines preferred

  • Performance optimization experience preferred

  • Experience with observability tooling preferred

  • Experience working in Agile environments preferred

  • Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical discussions preferred

Location(s)

Toronto - Queen's Quay - Headquarters

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.

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