Senior Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and enhance product functionalities while addressing complex backend challenges.

• Shape the technical and product vision of teams.

• Enhance the quality, reliability, and performance of systems.

• Collaborate across product, frontend, infrastructure, data, and security domains.

• Create and deploy moderate to intricate backend features with minimal guidance.

• Make informed decisions among modular-monolith code, shared components, and independently operated services.

• Establish backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness.

• Mentor associate and intermediate engineers, helping to remove technical obstacles.

• Enhance team delivery practices through code and design reviews.

• Identify and prevent performance and reliability issues at scale.

• Engage in incident response and serve as a technical owner when suitable.

• Leverage AI in production engineering tasks, assess its effectiveness, and guide others on responsible usage.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong expertise in backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance optimization.

• Proficient in contemporary backend programming languages.

• In-depth knowledge of systems programming.

• Experience in designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures.

• Ability to lead through influence, technical acumen, and effective written communication.

• Demonstrated experience in building or managing agentic systems in production environments.

• Experience in architecting agentic AI loops, tool utilization, and error-handling strategies for reliability at scale.

• Beneficial experience with high-throughput distributed systems, concurrency, or profiling.

• Valuable hands-on experience with containerized production operations, such as Kubernetes.

• Useful knowledge of database performance, including PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, schema evolution, and partitioning.

• Helpful background in large-scale modular monoliths or event-driven systems.

• Beneficial experience in public technical communication, open-source maintenance, or developer-focused SaaS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits designed to support your health, finances, and overall well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental Leave.