Senior Software Developer, Backend

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

📋 Description

• Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend services using Java (Quarkus/Spring Boot) and Node.js architectures.

• Model and enhance complex distributed domains utilizing Domain Driven Design (DDD), bounded contexts, and event-driven methodologies.

• Create and implement robust asynchronous workflows and decoupled communications through Kafka, AWS SQS, and AWS SNS.

• Take ownership of End-to-End Reliability by establishing SLIs/SLOs, implementing observability with Datadog, and leading production incident response as well as log analysis.

• Enhance Data Architecture across relational (Aurora RDS), analytical (Google BigQuery), and caching layers (Redis).

• Deploy and manage cloud-native services on AWS/Azure using Kubernetes (EKS) while facilitating CI/CD and progressive rollouts.

• Collaborate with and mentor cross-functional Agile teams (Product, Mobile, QE, Data) to promote engineering excellence and continuous delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in building, operating, and optimizing production-grade backend services at scale in Agile settings.

• Strong, proven expertise in Java (Quarkus/Spring Boot);

• Additional backend experience with Node.js is highly regarded.

• In-depth knowledge of pub/sub patterns, idempotency, eventual consistency, and sagas utilizing Kafka, SQS, and SNS.

• Extensive hands-on experience with schema design, query optimization, and migrations across Relational (PostgreSQL/MySQL), NoSQL, and Redis caching.

• Strong production experience deploying on AWS and/or Azure with containerized workloads operating on Kubernetes (EKS).

• Comprehensive knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), GitOps, and rigorous automated testing (K6/Gatling/JMeter).

• Solid foundation in RESTful API design (with exposure to gRPC/GraphQL/AsyncAPI) and thorough APM/distributed tracing using Datadog.

🏝️ Benefits

• Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

• Work with some of the best-known brands

• Fun, fast-paced, and supportive culture