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title: 'Staff Software Developer at Air-tek'
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# Staff Software Developer at Air-tek

- **Company:** Air-tek
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-01-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/air-tek/d30c5c37-0ec1-4448-9cc1-0f3cbc545d57

## Job description

## About Us

Air-tek is a Canadian-based software company with a powerful suite of unique products that have already achieved a significant share of a huge global market. Our product-market fit is strong, and customers are lining up to buy. Although our global customers know us, we intentionally operate in stealth mode during this growth phase.

Our diverse team shares a passion for solving complex problems with a drive to innovate and a vision to reshape the passenger-centric travel industry. Based in Toronto, our inclusive culture is built on trust, collaboration, delivering a great product, and continuous personal growth. We love what we do, and we support the team around us.

## The Role

We’re looking for a Staff Software Developer who can own big technical decisions, build scalable systems, and help shape our engineering culture as we grow. You’ll work across the stack, solve complex problems, and turn ambiguity into clear direction. This is a high‑impact role with broad autonomy.

## What You'll Do

- Architect and build scalable, high‑performance systems for aviation operations
- Define technical problem spaces and set engineering direction in ambiguous areas
- Lead team based technical decisions, standards, and architecture
- Drive long-term technical strategy and de‑risk major initiatives
- Partner closely with engineering managers, product and design to ship software
- Mentor engineers and elevate team quality and velocity
- Act as senior on‑call escalation and lead high-severity incident response

## About You

- 10+ years building production systems in the cloud
- Strong experience with C# / .NET Core (or similar back-end tech)
- Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, etc.)
- Experience with microservices, performance optimized or distributed systems, APIs
- Familiarity with MySQL/MongoDB and message brokers (e.g., RabbitMQ)
- CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, TFS)
- Developer tooling or automation contributions
- Strong systems thinking, communication, and leadership in fast-paced environments

## Why Join Air-tek

- Work on meaningful problems that power the backbone of the airline industry.
- Build production-grade software that scales globally and impacts millions of passengers.
- Collaborate with brilliant engineers in a high-trust, low-ego environment.
- Operate with autonomy and ownership - your ideas will shape our products.
- Exposure to modern technologies, cloud environments, and complex system design.
- Competitive compensation and growth opportunities in a fast-scaling company.

Please note that this role requires three days a week in our Toronto office which is located near Union Station

If you love solving hard problems, thrive in ambiguity, and take pride in building software that matters - we want to hear from you.

## About Air-tek

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Air-tek is a Canadian software company building a suite of products to automate and optimize airline operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (stealth mode)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (near Union Station)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Airline operations automation, travel technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – global airlines
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To reshape the passenger-centric travel industry through data-driven automation and innovation.

## Products & Services
- **Air-tek Operations Suite**: A set of unique, integrated software products that automate and optimize airline workflows. The suite is described as having strong product-market fit and is sold to a global customer base. Type: SaaS (cloud-based, mission-critical systems).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: No annual revenue or total funding figures are publicly available. The company states that “product-market fit is excellent, and customers are lining up to buy.”
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring – 16 open roles as of mid-2026, including engineering, product, and operations positions. The company operates in stealth mode while scaling, indicating a deliberate growth phase.

## Competitive Advantages
- Strong and validated product-market fit within a large global market.
- Operates in stealth, which may limit competitor visibility while building defensible moats.
- Focus on mission-critical airline operations creates high switching costs for customers.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the engineering team, particularly in integration and platform engineering, to support more airline customers efficiently.
- Building scalable, configurable integrations to reduce customization per customer.
- Continuing to expand the product suite and deepen automation capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- Work on meaningful, complex problems that power the backbone of the airline industry, impacting millions of passengers.
- High-trust, low-ego culture with autonomy and ownership over projects.
- Exposure to modern technologies: C# / .NET Core, TypeScript, React, Vue.js, Node.js, Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions.
- Hybrid work policy – three days per week in the Toronto office (near Union Station).
- Competitive compensation: Software Developer salary range $90,000 – $140,000 CAD annually, plus stock options.
- Culture built on trust, collaboration, and continuous personal growth.

## Sources
1. [jobs.lever.co/air-tek – Office Coordinator](https://jobs.lever.co/air-tek)
2. [scoutify.com/companies/air-tek/](https://scoutify.com/companies/air-tek/)
3. [jobs-radar.com/company/air-tek-6218](https://jobs-radar.com/company/air-tek-6218?offices=Toronto)
4. [jobs.lever.co/air-tek/14acb33a-bcea-4060-94aa-bf5ef5893e62 – Software Developer](https://jobs.lever.co/air-tek/14acb33a-bcea-4060-94aa-bf5ef5893e62)
5. [jobs.lever.co/air-tek/7fa08762-2ce3-4182-85b6-cab749b51687 – Senior Staff Software Engineer, Integrations](https://jobs.lever.co/air-tek/7fa08762-2ce3-4182-85b6-cab749b51687)

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