About Cova
Cova is the leading point-of-sale and commerce platform purpose-built for cannabis retailers. Since launching commercially, we have grown into the #1 POS in North America through constant product innovation, disciplined execution, and a deep commitment to customer success.
Our platform is built on an open API architecture designed to support complex, regulated retail environments. Cova products are trusted by retailers ranging from single-store operators to large, multi-store organizations across North America. As the cannabis industry continues to mature, Cova is building the platform that enables retailers to scale with confidence.
Let’s shape the next generation of cannabis retail—together.
Reporting To: Technical Lead, Back Office Product Team
Location: Hybrid Remote
Salary Range: $115-130K Annually
Role Summary
Cova is seeking a Senior Web Developer to take technical ownership of our Hub product, a core web-based surface that connects platform capabilities, internal tools, and partner integrations.
In this role, you will be accountable for the architecture, code quality, technical decision-making, and long-term health of the Hub product. You will collaborate closely with product management, design, backend and platform teams, and the broader web guild.
This is a hands-on senior contributor role with significant influence. While it does not include formal people management, it requires technical leadership, strong judgment, and a clear sense of ownership.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision and architecture of the Hub product, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health.
- Design, build, test, and maintain complex web applications using modern frontend technologies.
- Make and clearly communicate decisions around frontend architecture, tooling, frameworks, and integration patterns.
- Identify, prioritize, and actively reduce technical debt within the Hub codebase.
- Collaborate closely with backend and platform teams on API design and integration strategies.
- Provide high-quality code reviews and contribute to shared web standards through the web guild.
- Help evolve build, deployment, and CI/CD pipelines associated with the Hub product.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience building and maintaining modern web applications.
- Strong experience with React (functional components and hooks).
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript.
- Experience with Node.js (e.g., Express or similar frameworks).
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and frontend–backend integration.
- Proven ability to design and own large, long-lived codebases.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
AI-Driven Development & Engineering Productivity
Cova embraces AI-assisted development as a force multiplier. In this role, you are expected to actively leverage AI coding tools as part of your daily workflow while applying strong engineering judgment.
- Uses AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc. chat-based agents) to accelerate development and problem-solving.
- Understands how to prompt, guide, and iteratively refine AI outputs to achieve high-quality results.
- Exercises sound judgment in validating, refining, and integrating AI-generated code.
- Applies AI to learning, prototyping, debugging, and refactoring — not as a substitute for fundamentals, but as leverage.
- Understands that AI tools are evolving rapidly and actively explores ways to move beyond basic code-generation use cases, leveraging automation, agents, and modern development workflows to improve outcomes across the software lifecycle.
- Demonstrates curiosity and a willingness to explore emerging development practices, including AI-assisted workflows, developer experience (DevX), CI/CD, automation, and DevOps tooling.
- Comfortable working through ambiguity, experimenting, iterating, and establishing practical best practices where clear patterns or processes do not yet exist.
- Looks beyond immediate feature delivery to identify opportunities to improve developer productivity, build quality, deployment processes, and overall engineering effectiveness.
Nice-to-Have Experience
- Micro-frontend architectures (e.g., single-SPA, Webpack Module Federation).
- Design systems and reusable component libraries.
- Automated testing strategies for frontend applications.
- Azure and Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Experience building software in regulated environments.
What Really Matters at Cova
- A strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Thoughtful technical decision-making paired with a bias toward action.
- Care for customers and the teams supporting them.
- A collaborative, low-ego approach to problem solving.
- Pride in building high-quality software that lasts.
What We Offer:
- Begin your journey with a competitive starting salary!
- Enjoy peace of mind with a comprehensive benefits package for you and your entire family.
- Embrace work-life harmony with a flexible hybrid working environment and generous vacation and sick time policies
- We care about your family, offering maternity, adoption, and paternity leave salary top ups as well as ten “New Baby Days” for all parents welcoming a new child into their life.
- Enjoy a “Cultural Day” off annually to celebrate a day of religious or cultural significance.
- Give back with up to 6 days of paid time off annually for volunteering or personal learning.
- We believe in the value of taking time to refresh, re-energize, and reflect on your career journey. Employees are granted a seven-week sabbatical after every seven years of employment!
Want to Join the Team?
If you’re interested in a career with Cova, please submit your resume and cover letter. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, faith, colour, cultural background, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
We are a hybrid work environment, remote and in-office for all employees in an office city.