Developer (Remote Canada)
Directive
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Ottawa, ON
Contract type: Full time
Remote
Directive Consulting is the leading B2B performance marketing agency that delivers real revenue—not just leads.
We use Customer Generation (a marketing methodology developed by us) to cut through the noise. Forget MQLs—we’re here to drive pipeline, fuel SQLs, and scale brands that are serious about growth. From Paid Media and SEO to CRO, RevOps, and Go-To-Market Strategy, we build marketing engines that win in SaaS and across B2B industries.
We move fast. We think boldly. We are elite. We hire people who challenge the status quo and push campaigns past what’s expected - sparking demand for bold, innovative brands. If you live for performance, love solving hard problems, and want your work to actually mean something, you’ll fit right in.
But here’s the fun part—we don’t just deliver results; we’re shaping the future of marketing. Ready to build something that breaks the mold?
This is a Remote position in Canada and the annual base salary range for this position is $90,000- $120,000 CAD. This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on Directive's compensation practices, job related skills, and depth of experience.
About The Role
We’re looking for a Developer to join our Operational Technology team, for our Stratos platform. This role is all about building reliable, secure, and measurable features that power both our internal teams and client portals. You’ll integrate best-in-class third-party systems, write clean code, and help elevate engineering practices across the org. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be trusted to design, build, and ship production-ready services while collaborating with product, design, and operations leaders.
What You’ll Do
At Senior
As a remote-first company, you’ll have the ability to work from your home office. For some positions, as posted, we will accommodate global opportunities where we have established businesses, including Canada, Mexico, and the UK. For global locations, you must have established and current work authorization and permanently reside in that country.
This role has the opportunity to operate 100% virtually from your home office. We primarily collaborate with our colleagues through virtual meetings (Zoom), and Slack. In this role, you will be required to operate a laptop computer (PC or Mac available), computer software platforms, and other office productivity tools as necessary. Due to the nature of this role, you must be able to remain stationary for extended periods, must be able to observe and interpret written and/or verbal communication, must have reliable internet access, and a professional background.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
If you require reasonable accommodations in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, direct your inquiries to [email protected].
Additional Information
At Directive, one of our core values is People First. We’re committed to fostering a more diverse and inclusive culture in the digital landscape. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
We use Customer Generation (a marketing methodology developed by us) to cut through the noise. Forget MQLs—we’re here to drive pipeline, fuel SQLs, and scale brands that are serious about growth. From Paid Media and SEO to CRO, RevOps, and Go-To-Market Strategy, we build marketing engines that win in SaaS and across B2B industries.
We move fast. We think boldly. We are elite. We hire people who challenge the status quo and push campaigns past what’s expected - sparking demand for bold, innovative brands. If you live for performance, love solving hard problems, and want your work to actually mean something, you’ll fit right in.
But here’s the fun part—we don’t just deliver results; we’re shaping the future of marketing. Ready to build something that breaks the mold?
This is a Remote position in Canada and the annual base salary range for this position is $90,000- $120,000 CAD. This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on Directive's compensation practices, job related skills, and depth of experience.
About The Role
We’re looking for a Developer to join our Operational Technology team, for our Stratos platform. This role is all about building reliable, secure, and measurable features that power both our internal teams and client portals. You’ll integrate best-in-class third-party systems, write clean code, and help elevate engineering practices across the org. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be trusted to design, build, and ship production-ready services while collaborating with product, design, and operations leaders.
What You’ll Do
- Design and implement services, APIs, and integrations that power internal tools and client-facing portals
- Translate business problems into technical solutions, slicing work for incremental value and managing risk with feature flags and staged rollouts
- Ensure marketing data correctness (think WoW/MoM metrics) with thoughtful handling of boundaries and filters
- Establish access controls and safe patterns for internal tooling (parameterized queries, RBAC, least-privilege access)
- Ship, support, and iterate: fix bugs, improve performance, and reduce cost without sacrificing UX
- Add telemetry, alerts, and clear runbooks to make issues easy to detect, diagnose, and resolve
- Document designs and trade-offs with concise specs/RFCs
- Experience: 3+ years of professional software development with production ownership (mid–senior range)
- Languages: Strong in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python; you write clean, tested, and review-friendly code
- APIs & Integrations: Skilled with REST/GraphQL, OAuth2/OIDC/JWT, pagination, rate limits, idempotency, and resilient contracts
- Data & SQL: Confident querying and shaping data for analytics and reporting; you validate results and avoid common pitfalls
- Cloud Delivery: Experience shipping services on managed compute (serverless or containers) with CI/CD and observability in place (GCP a plus)
- Low-/No-Code Enablement: Familiarity with Retool, Appsmith, Power Apps, or automation tools (Zapier, Make, n8n) to empower non-engineers safely
- AI-Forward Mindset: Comfortable using tools like Copilot or Cursor to accelerate quality delivery and integrating LLM APIs where it makes sense
- Strong Communicator and Ownership: Ability to handle a fast paced environment with imperfect information and able to talk through ambiguity and drive outcomes.
- Marketing data literacy: Familiarity with CRM (Salesforce/HubSpot), web analytics (GA4), paid media APIs, and attribution/measurement basics.
- Security & compliance: Least‑privilege IAM, secrets management, PII handling, and familiarity with audit frameworks (SOC 2/ISO 27001) in product engineering contexts.
- AI integrations: Consuming Vertex AI endpoints or vendor LLM APIs; prompt design/validation and safe fallbacks (timeouts, retries, guardrails).
- Frontend fundamentals: React/TypeScript basics, design‑system usage, accessibility (WCAG), and performance profiling for portal components.
- Experimentation & analytics: Feature flags, A/B testing exposure, and KPI definition habits that support decision‑making.
At Senior
- Lead designs for cross-team features; define integration contracts and guardrails
- Coordinate vendor and partner work to a clear quality bar
- Proactively manage reliability, cost, and observability
- Mentor peers through code reviews and pairing
- Implement designs end-to-end with clean code, tests, and docs
- Raise risks early and grow into owning designs and staged rollouts
- Compensation for this role includes a competitive base salary
- Medical, dental, vision plans, disability, and life insurance coverage for you and your family that fit your lifestyle
- Including a 100% employer-paid plan for you and a 50% employer contribution for your dependents (US, CAD, MX)
- Benefits to Support the Whole Person:
- Mental - Access to certified therapists through Spring Health, membership to Headspace
- Physical - Physical therapy through Omada, thousands of Aaptiv virtual workouts, complimentary One Medical membership for primary and virtual care
- Time Off - Unlimited PTO (2-week minimum), Paid Company Holidays, Your Birthday Off, End of Year Recharge (Closed December 24 - January 1), Paid Parental Leave
- Financial - Traditional and Roth 401(k) with a 3% company match
- Bonus - Annual bonus based on tenure, which scales in total amount over time
- Annual Company-wide Retreat
As a remote-first company, you’ll have the ability to work from your home office. For some positions, as posted, we will accommodate global opportunities where we have established businesses, including Canada, Mexico, and the UK. For global locations, you must have established and current work authorization and permanently reside in that country.
This role has the opportunity to operate 100% virtually from your home office. We primarily collaborate with our colleagues through virtual meetings (Zoom), and Slack. In this role, you will be required to operate a laptop computer (PC or Mac available), computer software platforms, and other office productivity tools as necessary. Due to the nature of this role, you must be able to remain stationary for extended periods, must be able to observe and interpret written and/or verbal communication, must have reliable internet access, and a professional background.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
If you require reasonable accommodations in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, direct your inquiries to [email protected].
Additional Information
At Directive, one of our core values is People First. We’re committed to fostering a more diverse and inclusive culture in the digital landscape. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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