Staff Software Developer, Backend Streams

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

📋 Description

• Lead the design and advancement of ETL and data processing systems that integrate customer product catalogs into our internal product catalog platform.

• Create systems that consistently handle large, varied datasets from thousands of customers featuring complex schemas, transformations, validation rules, dependencies, and imperfect source data.

• Detect and resolve performance bottlenecks throughout the ingestion, transformation, persistence, indexing, and retrieval processes.

• Engineer horizontally scalable distributed processing systems that ensure correctness, idempotency, fault tolerance, retries, and recovery.

• Advance the foundational architecture of the platform as the product catalog expands.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership on technical direction, essential investments, and scaling strategies.

• Mentor senior engineers, perform architecture reviews, and foster high-quality development across various teams.

• Advocate for scalability, resiliency, observability, and maintainability within backend systems.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives involving teams and business stakeholders.

• Define the long-term technical vision and cultivate the engineering culture.

• Impact hiring, onboarding, and growth strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of software development experience in building and maintaining scalable, reliable systems in production settings.

• Extensive experience in designing and managing complex ETL pipelines, data processing platforms, or other high-throughput, data-intensive systems.

• Strong grasp of distributed systems concepts, including concurrency, partitioning, consistency, idempotency, retries, failure recovery, and horizontal scaling.

• Experience in performance engineering, analyzing complex systems, identifying bottlenecks, comprehending resource utilization, and enhancing throughput and latency.

• Proven ability to work with large datasets and develop efficient methods for transformation, persistence, indexing, and retrieval.

• Profound understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, networking, and databases.

• Demonstrated experience in designing and scaling distributed systems with a focus on performance, observability, reliability, and fault tolerance.

• Strong architectural instincts with the capability to make high-impact technical decisions that affect multiple teams and systems.

• Ability to influence and mentor senior engineers, navigate teams through uncertainty, and enhance engineering practices.

• Exceptional sense of ownership.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across functions.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-autonomy, product-driven environment.

• Preferably experienced in data engineering, data ingestion platforms, product catalogs, e-commerce data, search systems, or related fields.

• Familiarity with Python, Django, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and AWS is strongly preferred; experience with similar systems and a willingness to learn are accepted.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work arrangement.

• Opportunity to work anywhere in the world for up to 3 months.

• Parental leave program.

• Work-from-home stipend.

• Days off for birthdays and company anniversaries.