Estate Kit is a mission-driven SaaS company preparing for launch, building a secure, consumer-focused platform that helps people organize, safeguard, and share their most important information. In addition to our direct-to-consumer product, we’re developing strategic B2B partnerships that deepen our impact through organizations serving the same audience.
We’re bringing modern, privacy-first technology to a space that affects everyone yet has been chronically underserved. With a functional MVP ready for launch, we’re looking for a seasoned technical leader to evolve our production infrastructure, strengthen security controls, and establish the operational foundation that builds and maintains user trust as we scale.
Own security and compliance
Identify and close security gaps, design security-first architecture, and guide us through SOC 2. You understand auditor expectations, know how to build systems that earn user trust at scale, and can inspire confidence with enterprise clients, financial partners, and advisors.
Maintain and evolve production infrastructure
Own monitoring, logging, alerting, CI/CD, and incident response. Keep shipping smooth and systems reliable. You bring strong DevOps/SRE experience and understand what it takes to mature production operations as the product grows.
Establish operational discipline
Define testing strategies, code review processes, deployment procedures, incident management, and documentation. You bring just the right amount of process to ensure safety and predictability without slowing a fast-moving team.
Coach and elevate the team
Promote clarity, accountability, and calm execution across a small, high-performing group. You raise the bar through mentorship, pairing, and thoughtful standards—all while keeping the team intentionally lean.
Lead across the full stack
Drive architectural decisions spanning frontend (React/Next.js), backend (.NET), cloud infrastructure (AWS), and data (PostgreSQL). You’ll have depth in one or two areas and rely on teammates for implementation in others, but you can evaluate trade-offs across the entire system.
Be hands-on
Write code, debug production issues, review architecture, and handle incidents. You’re both strategist and builder—equally comfortable defining technical vision and digging into a deployment failure.
Partner with the founder
Translate business priorities into technical decisions. Make build-vs-buy calls. Act as the technical voice in leadership discussions while communicating with clarity and calm.
Infrastructure & Site Reliability expertise
You’ve built and maintained production operations at a startup: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, observability, incident response, and deployment automation. You’re comfortable with AWS, infrastructure-as-code, and modern DevOps practices.
Security & compliance background
You’ve led or contributed to SOC 2 (or similar) for products handling sensitive or regulated data. You understand secure architecture beyond checklists and can navigate trade-offs between security and development speed.
Full-stack architectural thinking
You can make sound decisions across frontend, backend, cloud, and data layers. You don’t need expert-level skills in every technology but must be able to lead end-to-end technical strategy.
Startup experience
You’ve served as a technical leader or early engineer at a pre-seed to Series A startup. You know how to build with constraints, move fast responsibly, and lay strong foundations.
Still codes
You stay close to the work: writing production code, reviewing PRs, interviewing engineers, and debugging real issues.
Strong communicator
You translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and maintain a calm, credible presence with customers, partners, investors, and auditors.
Impact
Your work protects people’s most important information. The infrastructure and controls you build establish trust at scale and support scrutiny from enterprise clients and financial partners.
Ownership
You’ll define engineering culture, operational discipline, and technical strategy from the ground up.
Growth
As Estate Kit scales, you’ll shape both systems and the team—enabling secure, rapid expansion and supporting enterprise onboarding waves of 10,000+ new users.
Mission
We’re building technology that supports people during some of life's most stressful and important moments—not ad tech, not social media, but something meaningfully useful and human-centered.
Team
You’ll join a small team of engineers and contractors. We aim to keep engineering intentionally small and highly capable over the long term—prioritizing thoughtful design, modular architecture, and automation that scales product, not headcount.
On-call
Yes. Initially, you'll be the primary technical point for production issues and the senior escalation tier long term.
Timeline: Approx. 3–4 weeks from first conversation to offer.
To express interest or learn more, contact Ashley Gallant at ashley@artemiscanada.com.
We value diverse perspectives and backgrounds. We welcome accommodations throughout the interview process and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where different experiences strengthen our team.
Ashley Gallant and the Artemis Canada team will work closely with you through every step of the process.
Even if you don’t meet all the requirements, we’d still love to hear from you.
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