Software Engineer II

🌟 Ready to help reshape a $26B industry and build the future of branded merch? commonsku is revolutionizing the promotional products industry. Our platform empowers branded merch distributors to work smarter — managing projects, building quotes, placing orders, and collaborating with clients and suppliers seamlessly through the power of the Connected Workflow.

We’re a remote-first, community-driven team obsessed with elevating our customers, their clients, and the broader industry. Our values – Community First, Ten Steps Ahead, Fast Forward, and Delightful Work – guide us. We believe you can innovate, push forward, and do more, while also sharing a laugh, supporting your colleagues, and having a life outside of work. We’re also proud to be officially recognized as a Certified Great Place to Work® in Canada.

If you’re energized by ambitious work, creative collaboration, and helping to build something great, you’ll want to keep reading.

🚀 About the Role: Software Engineer II We’re growing — and we’re hiring a Software Engineer II to join our Research and Development team! In this role, you’ll operate as an Intermediate Software Engineer to help us launch and scale our Enterprise offering, the latest expansion in commonsku’s platform. This includes working on APIs, integrations, and other compelling features that will deliver massive value to our customers.

With our new Enterprise offering, we’re entering an exciting growth phase and tackling a whole new class of technical and product challenges. You’ll collaborate closely with teammates across Development, Product, Design, and more, contribute to a high-trust environment, and play a direct role in shaping what comes next.

💡 About You You’re not just looking for a job — you’re looking for a place to do your best work. You bring:

• A community mindset — You see customers as partners and coworkers as collaborators. You lift others up, always follow through on your commitments, and thrive in a team that does the same. (Community First)
• Momentum and ownership — You act with optimism, take initiative, and turn ideas into results. You move fast and bring others with you. (Fast Forward)
• Vision and boldness — You don’t just react — you anticipate. You think big, challenge the status quo, and push the work (and the industry) forward. (Ten Steps Ahead)
• Joy in the craft — You care deeply about what you build and how it makes people feel. You bring thoughtfulness, transparency, and a sparkling sense of humour to the table. (Delightful Work)

⚙️ About Our Technology Guided by our value of being Ten Steps Ahead, we are modernizing our technology to support a rapidly scaling business and user base.

Our core foundation is built on PHP, Python, and React, backed by MySQL (Aurora) on AWS, with Snowflake powering our data warehouse. We are actively evolving this stack for the future: migrating our PHP codebase to the Symfony framework and transitioning our infrastructure to a fully containerized architecture using ECS Fargate and Docker.

Innovation remains central to our roadmap. We are pushing the boundaries of the industry by building AI features powered by OpenAI, Gemini, and advanced generative image APIs.

🛠️ What You’ll Do Here’s what you’ll do:

• Scope, plan, and implement well-defined features and components for the Enterprise team with support and guidance from engineering leadership.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that scales effectively, modeling high-quality development practices for the team.
• Own engineering outcomes for your projects, proactively proposing solutions to improve how the team builds, delivers, and maintains software.
• Apply customer empathy and product context to guide technical choices, using data and feedback to develop software our customers love.
• Collaborate and mentor, supporting team growth through code reviews, technical planning, documentation, and pairing with engineering peers.

🔍 What You Bring Some of the qualities that help you thrive in this role:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience, ideally in a SaaS or product-driven environment.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, system design, and API development.
• Robust experience working with React, PHP, Python, and relational databases.
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern practices like C…