Real customers, real feedback
Direct line to operators using EMS in real warehouses. You'll see your code change someone's Tuesday morning the same week you ship it.
We're a small team building software for Canadian excise distributors and self-importers — from receiving box-scan workflows to CRA-ready stamp accounting. We hire operators, builders and people who like specific, bounded problems.
Direct line to operators using EMS in real warehouses. You'll see your code change someone's Tuesday morning the same week you ship it.
Federal stamps, provincial stamps, skid scanning, audit trails. The domain is specific and rich, the regulations are real, and the wins are measurable.
Remote-first across Canada. Anywhere within Eastern Time ±2 hours works.
Comprehensive health, dental and vision through Sun Life. RRSP match up to 4%. Annual learning stipend.
Stock options for all full-time employees, with a clear-eyed conversation about what they're worth and what changes them.
Four-day shipping weeks, Friday for review and writing. We don't celebrate burnout and we don't ship at midnight.
Don't see a perfect match but think you'd be useful? Email us anyway — admin@excisems.com.
Own the end-to-end shape of the receiving box-scan flow and the production scheduling calendar. Browser-side first (vanilla JS today, migrating to React 19 in 2026), backend in Node + Postgres. Real workflows, real audit trails.
The customer-facing portal is the surface our customers' customers see every day. Polish the multi-shipment dashboard, the production order request flow, and the global search. Strong JS, accessibility, and an eye for tight, low-key visual design.
Own the stamp-accounting and CRA-filing modules. You've worked in excise / customs / regulated logistics and can read a CRA bulletin. You'll work directly with engineering to translate regulation into reports our customers ship to their auditors.
Onboard new distributor customers, run their quarterly compliance reviews, capture feature requests for the roadmap. Calm, organised, and good with operators. You'll spend ~1 day a month inside customer warehouses.
Lead 90-day implementations for Enterprise customers — data migration from legacy WMS, custom report templates, SSO setup, integration with carrier and accounting systems. Comfortable in CSV, SQL, REST, and a warehouse floor.
Help us drive SOC 2 Type II to completion (target Q3 2026), harden the auth layer (move from in-app password hashing to a managed identity provider), run our vulnerability disclosure program. Starts as 6-month contract with intent to convert.
Send a short note plus CV / portfolio / GitHub to admin@excisems.com. Cover letters are optional — tell us about a problem you've actually solved instead.
One of our founders. Mutual interview — what you want, what we want, and whether the role is a fit before either of us invests more time.
For engineers: a real problem from our codebase to talk through, no whiteboard riddles. For non-engineering roles: a structured deep-dive on a recent project.
Optional but encouraged for senior roles. ~4 hours of work, paid at CA$100/hr, with feedback either way. We don't keep what you build.
Two reference calls, then an offer with the salary band, equity grant, and start date. We aim to get from first email to offer in under three weeks.
In writing.
Email us with the role you're interested in and a couple of paragraphs about why. We read every message.
admin@excisems.com