Senior Backend Developer, Integrations

Details

• Hypergrowth: Deloitte Fast 50 — 3 years in a row
• Tech community credibility: TechTO Canadian Rocketship 2025*
• Industry leadership: CLA Lending Company of the Year — 4 consecutive years
• Talent magnet: CMP Top Mortgage Employer 2025
• Trusted technology: powering major financial institutions across Canada
• An entrepreneurial culture built on trust, speed, uncomfortable ambition, being stronger together, and a relentless obsession with our clients.
• You consistently deliver high-quality, efficient, and well-tested code, maintaining the high standards of a strong coder with minimal bugs or rework needed after peer review.
• You proactively keep internal stakeholders fully informed on project progress, escalate potential issues strategically, and provide clear, actionable debriefs to the team following customer calls.
• You handle customer interactions confidently under pressure, leading technical discussions with authority and using precise language to protect the company's interests while fostering strong client trust.
• Participate in and sometimes lead technical integration sessions with our customer development teams, providing expert advice and hands-on support regarding how to integrate with our platform throughout the integration lifecycle.
• Develop detailed technical specifications for integrations between our platform and our B2B customers' backend systems (including API and event mappings, data flows, etc).
• Design, implement/code, test, and deploy custom integrations, connectors, or extensions when customer requirements go beyond standard product capabilities.
• Facilitate technical integration and troubleshooting sessions with customers' engineering teams to ensure successful connectivity between our platform and theirs, following the deployment of the customer-specific integration connector.
• Serve as the primary technical subject matter expert for the components owned by you and the Integrations Development Team, supporting pre-sales consultations, implementation, and post-launch activities.
• Build and maintain a library of compelling documentation, demos, prototypes, or Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to showcase our platform integration capabilities to accelerate the sales cycle.
• 5-7 years of experience in a technical, client-facing role such as Backend Developer, Integration Consultant, or Professional Services Engineer.
• Strong hands-on experience with REST/SOAP APIs, webhooks, and event-driven architecture.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java, TypeScript, C#) for developing custom solutions.
• Strong working knowledge of databases (relational, non-relational, and NoSQL).
• Strong experience in technical, customer-facing roles.
• A proven ability to create clear technical documentation and specifications for other developers.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including our B2B financial customers.
• A natural problem-solver who is comfortable navigating ambiguity and finding creative solutions to technical challenges.
• Deep proficiency in Golang for building scalable, concurrent services and asynchronous messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, Google Pub/Sub).
• Proven experience using Temporal to architect durable, fault-tolerant workflows.
• Experience in the financial services, FinTech, or mortgage technology industry is a significant advantage.
• Experience with containerization (Kubernetes, k8s, Docker) and Cloud providers (GCP, Azure, or AWS).
• You prefer roles focused purely on hands-on coding and implementation, with minimal involvement in project design or stakeholder alignment.
• You are not interested in a role that involves frequent client-facing work or extensive communication with numerous internal and external stakeholders.
• You are uncomfortable leading or actively participating in live technical sessions with customers (e.g., architects, backend developers, business stakeholders).
• You prefer working with legacy or simple systems over modern, complex integrations.
• You are unwilling to learn and work with Golang (Go).
• You have no passion for the fintech or mortgage technology space and are unwilling to develop domain expertise in this area.
• You struggle with clear verbal and written communication, particularly in high-pressure or multi-stakeholder settings.
• Recruiter Screen – 30 minutes
• Take-Home Assignment (Backend Code Challenge)
• Technical Interview with Two Backend Developers (Code Challenge Discussion and Q&A)
• Final Non-Technical Interview with two additional stakeholders – 60 minutes
• Criminal Record and Reference Checks + Offer