Staff Software Engineer

H2 Analytics is redefining how professionals train for high-stakes environments through advanced simulation and data-driven tools. From defence and intelligence to critical infrastructure, our platform helps users train smarter and perform better. Software engineers at H2 build scalable systems, real-time simulations, and AI-powered automation that directly impact mission-critical outcomes. Join a fast-moving team where your code powers elite performance, and innovation is part of the job.

About the team:

H2’s Engineering team develops EASE (Exercise Architect Suite), a tool used by military, intelligence, law enforcement, and emergency response organizations to develop training exercises. Our mission is to make it easy to develop large-scale exercises without a heavy manual burden. Our current focus is on creating generative AI features using LLMs to generate relevant training content. Our current stack is primarily Typescript and Vue.

The engineering team is 100% remote; our head office is located in Ottawa and you’re welcome to come in. This role can be located anywhere in Canada with flexible hours, though our core meetings are oriented on the Eastern time zone. We believe in shipping code frequently. We value collaboration. We are driven by results, not process. We use a lightweight Scrum practice and we are dedicated to continuous improvement.

About you:

You are an experienced staff-level software engineer with at least 8+ years building complex web applications and backend services as a full-stack engineer, and with a minimum of 4 years at a Senior / Staff / Principal level with scope beyond a single team. You have both broad and deep technical expertise across many systems and technologies; you are recognized as a subject matter expert across the company. You take the lead on the most complex features. You love teaching, and you’re a lifelong learner.

We look for:

• Exceptional architecture and software design skills

• Advanced knowledge of reactive UI frameworks (React, Vue…)

• Expertise with TypeScript and many other modern languages

• Extensive experience developing REST APIs

• Database architecture (SQL / NoSQL)

• Deep experience with Linux and Docker containers

• Architecting microservices and large-scale distributed systems for performance, scalability, high availability

• Experience interviewing software engineering candidates at a senior level

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

• This role is only open to people eligible for a Top Secret security clearance in Canada due to the nature of our work.

Nice to have:

• Go, Rust

• Experience building generative AI features

• Experience architecting and maintaining production cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform, devops are a plus)

• Software security background; authentication and authorization, OWASP top 10

What you’ll own:

• Lead the architectural design and implementation of high-impact EASE features across multiple engineering teams

• Coach senior software engineers across teams; organizational multiplier across the engineering org. Drive software development excellence across the org.

• Gather stakeholder feedback and defining features to meet customer needs

• Write proposals, carrying out code experiments, and building prototypes

• Lead the technical response for large-scale, critical production incidents

• Introduce new, cutting-edge technologies that provide a strategic advantage

What you’ll help with:

• Partner with Product and Executive leadership to Influence what we build and how we build it. Help define the technical roadmap.

• Identify and push for technical and process improvements.

• Improve our CI/CD and simplifying deployment and administration

• Maintain and diagnose our software as it runs in production in the cloud or in customer data centers, in support of our customers

• Drive performance and scalability improvements

What you’ll teach:

• Advanced coding practices and architectural patterns

• Software development best practices

• Review and approve code contributions from team members, ensuring quality, security, compliance

What you’ll learn:

• The unique security and infrastructure challenges of building software for defence and intelligence teams

• An understanding of how defence and intelligence teams train for real-world scenarios

• How to build a team in a small, fast-moving software company

What we offer:

• The annual base salary for this role is between CAD $160k - $200k, based on skill and experience.

• Extended health insurance for employees and their dependants

• A generous and flexible vacation policy. We encourage time off to recharge

• Company equity in a growing startup

• Fully remote

• We get together as a team at least once a year to reconnect

• We are committed to building a supportive and diverse company

Vacancy Status:

This is a new role on our team for which we are actively recruiting.