Lead Backend Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Establish the technical vision, system boundaries, and architecture for services managed by the team.

• Actively participate in design, implementation, code review, debugging, and production support.

• Create and implement patterns that enable the development of new features.

• Offer technical guidance, resolve obstacles for engineers, review designs and code, and mentor team members.

• Collaborate with the Engineering Manager and Product to formulate technical plans, milestones, and incremental delivery strategies.

• Work with partner engineering teams to ensure seamless platform integration.

• Guarantee that integration services function reliably at scale.

• Organize, schedule, and oversee messages in third-party partner systems.

• Utilize observability tools, metrics, traces, logs, alerts, and postmortems to enhance system quality.

• Represent the integrations team in architectural discussions, aligning technical patterns, dependencies, and platform interfaces.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of professional experience in software engineering.

• Proven history of building and managing backend or platform systems in production environments.

• Proficient in Python and other programming languages.

• Extensive experience in designing and managing distributed services.

• Strong architectural insight regarding stateful services, asynchronous processing, system reliability, and production operations.

• Practical technical leadership experience, including unblocking, reviewing, mentoring, and overseeing complex technical initiatives from start to finish.

• Ability to translate vague product objectives into actionable technical designs and incremental execution plans.

• Familiarity with creating third-party integrations.

• Knowledge of retries, idempotency, backoffs, rate limiting, partial failures, and external monitoring.

• Experience in developing scalable backend services in cloud environments, ideally Google Cloud Platform.

• Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, incident response, and on-call duties.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical trade-offs into actionable decisions.

• A collaborative, product-focused mindset in platform engineering.

🏝️ Benefits

• Additional bonus based on the position ultimately offered.

• Medical benefits.

• Financial benefits.

• Other benefits.