Sr. Software Developer (Contract)
Sony Interactive Entertainment
CA$75 - CA$113 / hour
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Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Senior Software Developer on a contract basis for an internal tooling team in Foundational Systems and Experiences Engineering (FSEE). We build tools that help internal development teams onboard, manage, and observe their application releases.
Our goal is to reduce manual effort for application developers, quality engineering developers, and release managers while giving them a clearer view of application status and next steps. You will work directly with these users, from discovery and design through implementation, production support, and handoff. This is a hands-on full stack role for someone who enjoys making capable systems feel simple to use.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain the centralized portal and supporting services that internal console development teams use to onboard new applications.
- Work with application developers, quality engineering developers, and partner teams to understand onboarding and development pain points, validate designs, and prioritize useful improvements.
- Create clear, accessible interfaces that show application status, required actions, and relevant signals from connected systems.
- Build secure, reliable backend services and APIs that integrate with systems involved in application onboarding and development workflows.
- Collect and track signals from those systems, then implement dependable checks that can be used as gates in CI/CD pipelines.
- Automate repetitive steps and surface actionable information to reduce manual coordination and errors.
- Add appropriate tests, logging, monitoring, and documentation; diagnose issues and improve performance and reliability in production.
- Make pragmatic architecture and implementation decisions, explain trade-offs, and contribute to code reviews and shared engineering practices.
- Complete an orderly transition with maintainable code, user guidance, operational documentation, and clear ownership for ongoing work.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence of designing, shipping, and supporting production web applications.
- Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills and experience with a modern frontend framework such as React, Vue, or Angular.
- Experience building backend services in Node.js, Python, or a comparable language, including REST or GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with relational or document databases, data modeling, and integrating multiple systems.
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and experience building or integrating automated checks into development workflows.
- Working knowledge of authentication, authorization, automated testing, and practical security and reliability practices for internal applications.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with experience collaborating across engineering and other partner teams and documenting technical work clearly.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience building developer-focused tools, internal platforms, self-service workflows, or applications for technical users.
- Experience with containers, cloud services, or deployment automation relevant to operating internal applications.
- Experience designing automated gates from signals produced by multiple systems.
- Experience improving accessibility, usability, observability, or performance in internal products.
- Curiosity about AI-assisted development and where it can responsibly improve engineering workflows and tool usability.
What success looks like
- Internal development teams can onboard new applications through the centralized portal with fewer manual steps.
- Signals from connected systems are visible and reliable enough to support the agreed CI/CD gates, with clear handling for missing or inconsistent data.
- The delivered tools are secure, usable, tested, and observable.
- Users and partner teams have clear documentation and a way to provide feedback.
- The owning team has maintainable code, recorded decisions, and a complete handoff for ongoing work.
At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice (where applicable) for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
Benefits
- parental leave
About this role
Sony Interactive Entertainment is building internal developer tools for the PlayStation ecosystem and needs a senior full-stack engineer to join their Foundational Systems and Experiences Engineering team on a contract basis. The role centers on designing and shipping a centralized portal and backend services that help internal development teams onboard applications, manage releases, and gain visibility into their deployment status. You'd work directly with application developers, QA engineers, and release managers to understand their pain points, then translate those insights into usable interfaces and reliable automation that reduces manual coordination and errors.
The position demands strong full-stack capabilities: solid JavaScript/TypeScript with a modern frontend framework, backend experience in Node.js or Python, and hands-on familiarity with databases, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and security practices. You'll need at least five years of professional software engineering experience shipping and supporting production systems. Beyond the core technical skills, this role values pragmatism—making thoughtful architecture decisions, explaining trade-offs, and leaving behind maintainable code and clear documentation when the contract ends.
This suits someone who enjoys building tools for technical users and takes satisfaction in simplifying complex workflows. Experience with developer platforms, internal tooling, or automated testing gates is a plus, as is curiosity about how AI might improve engineering workflows. The contract is based in Waterloo, Ontario, in-office, with a salary range of $75–$113 CAD per hour.
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