Product Engineer, Smart Store

Location: Toronto (Hybrid). Most development can be done remotely, though this role benefits from occasional in-person collaboration and hands-on work with Smart Store hardware, devices, and prototypes.
We’re looking for a Product Engineer to help build the shopper-facing experiences that power Micromart Smart Stores. You’ll work on checkout experiences, payment flows, customer displays, and connected retail technologies, collaborating across Product, Backend, and Hardware teams to bring new ideas to life.
This is a frontend-focused role with opportunities to contribute across the stack as part of delivering complete product experiences.
About MicromartMicromart is building the platform for unattended retail. We empower entrepreneurs to turn any location into a retail opportunity, from offices and condos to gyms, hotels, and other shared spaces. Our focus is on giving entrepreneurs powerful tools that are simple to use, while delivering a fast, intuitive shopping experience for shoppers.
Often described as Shopify for physical commerce, Micromart provides the infrastructure that powers unattended retail in the real world.
Our TeamMicromart launched just over a year ago and is now used in thousands of locations across North America. We're a small and growing team working closely across product, frontend, backend, and Smart Store systems, from design through production.
Work here is end to end. That means starting from real customer problems, making pragmatic tradeoffs, shipping code, and improving the product over time. As we scale, there's real ownership, real impact, and room to grow.
How You Can HelpAs a Product Engineer, Smart Store, you'll help build and evolve the software experiences that shoppers interact with every day inside Micromart Smart Stores.
You'll work across our in-store checkout experience, customer-facing displays, payment experiences, connected retail technologies, and supporting Smart Store applications. You'll collaborate closely with Product, Design, Backend, and Hardware teams to create intuitive, reliable experiences that bridge the physical and digital worlds.
Your focus will be on building software that shoppers use every day while helping make Smart Stores faster, easier, and more engaging to use.
At Micromart, You Will

• Build and evolve customer-facing Smart Store experiences including checkout, payment, display, and connected retail applications
• Own features end-to-end, from implementation through production and iteration
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Backend, and Hardware teams to bring new ideas to life
• Build software that integrates with payment systems, APIs, third-party SDKs, and connected devices
• Improve usability, reliability, and performance across Smart Store experiences
• Contribute across the stack when needed to deliver complete product experiences
• Help identify customer pain points and translate them into practical solutions
• Contribute to platform initiatives and frontend projects across the broader Micromart ecosystem when needed
• Participate in architecture and technical discussions while helping evolve our frontend stack over time

What You Bring to the Team

• Strong experience building production applications using React and TypeScript
• Strong frontend fundamentals including state management, API integration, and debugging
• Experience shipping customer-facing product experiences
• Comfort working with ambiguity and taking ownership of features from concept through production
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Interest in solving real-world problems through software
• Curiosity about how software interacts with hardware, payments, and physical systems
• A bias toward simplicity, quality, and continuous improvement

Nice to Have

• Experience with React Native
• Experience working across frontend and backend systems
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs or SDKs
• Experience working with hardware, IoT, connected devices, or physical products
• Experience working on operational or workflow-heavy software
• Experience debugging production issues and complex application state
• Experience working in startups or small teams where ownership mattered more than process
• Familiarity with tools such as TanStack Query, GraphQL, MUI, or similar frontend ecosystems
• Experience with frontend test automation (e.g. Cypress)

Our ValuesWe're driven by ambitious, mission-focused thinking and a deep commitment to earning customer trust. We value craftsmanship, simplicity, and quality, and we're intentional about how we build, the tradeoffs we make, and the problems we choose to solve.
We believe in getting things done thoughtfully, improving continuously, and working closely together to build a great product.
Why MicromartYou’ll build software that shoppers interact with every day, from checkout and payment experiences to customer displays and other Smart Store technologies. Your work will sit at the intersection of software, hardware, payments, and retail.We believe software should empower people to build real businesses in the physical world. Micromart exists to give entrepreneurs practical, durable tools to create opportunity where people live and work, and your work will directly support that.
This year marks a major growth phase for Micromart. We’ve built the core Smart Store product and the platform that powers it with a very small team, and we’re now focused on improving the product, shipping new capabilities, and raising the bar on quality across the entire customer experience. If you enjoy owning real systems and building products used in the real world, there’s a lot to dig into.
What We Offer

• Competitive salary and equity
• Health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents
• Monthly fitness or wellness stipend
• Hybrid work environment, with access to our Toronto office
• Meals provided when working from the office
• Centrally located downtown office near Union Station

Micromart is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.