Staff Software Developer, Backup - ShareGate

About ShareGate ShareGate is the leading Microsoft 365 migration and governance platform, trusted by over 100,000 IT pros for its unmatched simplicity. It offers the simplest, most reliable, and most affordable way to move business data to Microsoft 365. Whether migrating from Google Workspace, file shares, Exchange Online, SharePoint On-Premises, or tenant-to-tenant, ShareGate gets the job done, without surprises.

From cloud transformation to M A integration, it keeps things just damn simple. ShareGate also helps organizations stay in control once their data is migrated. Its powerful governance features let users assess environments, uncover issues, and apply fixes on the spot, so everything stays clean, secure, and optimized.

It lays the groundwork for safe Microsoft Copilot deployment within organizations. ShareGate is developed by Workleap Technologies, a Montréal‑based software company. Your role We’re hiring a Staff Developer to lead the technical delivery of ShareGate’s most ambitious new feature, Backup, one of our customers' top requests.

This marks a first for ShareGate in the migration space. In this hands-on technical leadership role, you’ll own the architecture, define the long-term technical vision, and help build the team that will bring this highly requested capability to life. Your impact: Lead the technical design, architecture, and delivery of the Backup feature, ensuring scalability, security, and long-term maintainability.

Requirements

Define and champion a spec-driven development workflow, where features are designed upfront through detailed technical specifications before any code is written, enabling agentic AI-assisted development, faster reviews, and higher quality delivery. Collaborate with Product, Design, and directly with customers to validate our solutions, and align our technical direction to our product goals. Mentor developers, grow the team, and influence technical decisions across ShareGate’s engineering organization.

Act as a visible technical leader, advocating for scalable design decisions, driving technical discussions, and influencing ShareGate’s broader engineering practices. Your team You’ll be the first developer on this new team, taking full technical leadership from the start. In the early stages, you’ll be supported by a Principal Developer as well as a small development team to define the technical foundation, architectural direction, and key delivery frameworks.

With a dedicated Product Manager, Product Designer, and Manager already in place, you’ll have a unique opportunity to help select and shape the engineering team around you. Your team’s first challenge is to deliver a secure, production-ready MVP to select customers. You’ll then iterate rapidly toward general availability while scaling the team to support the long-term growth of a feature area that'll play a progressively larger role in ShareGate's broader strategy.

NET (C#) codebase supported by established tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and strong engineering standards. What you'll bring 10+ years of software development experience, with a significant portion in technical leadership roles. NET ecosystem, with familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and React.

Hands-on experience with agentic development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot Agents, or equivalent) and comfort actively integrating them into your daily workflow. Proven technical leadership in large-scale enterprise system development, from design to delivery, with a sharp sense of user experience and empathy for customer needs. Strong knowledge of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem (SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, Teams) and experience with SaaS security and compliance practices.