Software Engineer | Antler (Canada)

Are you a Software Engineer with solid programming skills, strong problem-solving abilities, and a passion for developing and improving tech solutions utilizing cutting edge technologies? Perhaps you want to take ownership of your own creations and are looking to build your next tech venture from scratch? You’ve come to the right place!

🚀 About Antler
At Antler, we lower the barriers to entrepreneurship by giving you the necessary support to find the right co-founder, test and validate your idea, and by providing funding from day zero so that you can build truly global companies. We are a global early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the defining companies of tomorrow to fundamentally improve the world with groundbreaking technology. Our residency brings together experienced and driven professionals from diverse backgrounds to build strong teams and launch their own companies. We are present in 27 locations worldwide, have supported 6.000+ founders through our programs, invested in 850+ startups, with the goal of backing more than 6.000 by 2030.

💡 About you
For our upcoming program on March 25, 2024, we are looking for Software Engineers who want to build the next disruptive tech venture from scratch! Full stack developers joining our platform play an instrumental role as Co-founders, mainly being responsible for the tech/product side of the business later serving as CTOs of the startup. This role requires that you:

• Identify as a tech professional with deep expertise in software engineering/product development
• Love building software and platforms that solve real pain-points and challenges that industries and consumers face
• Want the freedom to choose your stack and not be boxed in a specific area
• Have strong analytical skills with hands-on experience in conducting technological analyses of technical roadmaps and refining product backlogs
• Have experience leading a team of developers or technical product managers and maintaining an organized oversight of specific product delivery schedules
• Might have an idea (optional) that will solve a problem that you’re passionate about, but you do not want to do it on your own. You understand that you need co-pilots who share your vision and values

📝 Cohort details

Start date: March 25, 2024

Duration: 10 weeks

Location: Toronto

Requirements: you will need to be a Canadian citizen or PR card holder in order to qualify

Structure: the in-person program is structured in two phases and runs full-time:

• Phase 1 runs for ~2.5 months and is focused on venture development and testing a startup hypothesis. Here we surround you with everything you need to build at lightning speed: a community of diverse founders so that you can find the right co-founder, coaching from our team of proven founders and advisors, perks from hundreds of partners and a global network. At the end of this phase, your team will pitch to our Investment Committee. Successful teams will receive pre-seed funding from Antler and move to Phase 2
• During Phase 2, which runs for ~3.5 months, you will receive personalised coaching from our partners and global network of advisors to help you scale and hire your core team. It culminates with Demo Day, where you will get the opportunity to pitch to local and international investors.
• You enter Phase 3 once you have left stealth mode and your startup is live. Antler becomes a long term partner for your startup and our global network continues supporting you while scaling and growing your startup. We provide capital up to Series C with our Global Access Fund. You also become part of a strong global network of founders who exchange best practices and learn from each other.

What you get:

• Pool of potential co-founders
• Personalized coaching sessions with business experts
• Access to a global network of startup advisors and experts in their fields
• Antler provides founders with a CAD$3,000 stipend during the 10-week Residency.
• The opportunity to pitch at Antler Canada's Investment Committee, that will invest at the following terms: CAD$150,000 pre-seed investment for a fully diluted 10% equity stake. If you don't get an investment from Antler, we do not charge any fee nor take any equity.

💎Antler Highlights

Here you can find some examples of successful companies that were built during the Antler Residency, received pre-seed investment from Antler, and have gone on to raise substantial investment afterwards:

• Airalo - The world’s first eSIM subscription and top-up store
• Xailient - World’s fastest Computer Vision AI
• homebase - Making home ownership accessible
• reebelo - circular economy for e-devices
• Vamstar - Data science powered B2B healthcare marketplace platform.

Apply now to stop dreaming and start building!