Role overview

Senior Backend Engineer (Canada)

Requirements and responsibilities

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What You’ll Do:

  • Work directly with customers to understand technical needs, challenges, and product gaps.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, sales, customer success, and management teams to ensure customer feedback is reflected in product development.
  • Design, develop, and deliver backend features, integrations, and technical solutions that address customer needs.
  • Investigate and resolve complex technical issues across architecture, infrastructure, performance, and scalability.
  • Gain a deep, holistic understanding of the company platform and help connect customer use cases to product capabilities.
  • Contribute to backend architecture decisions, API design, system design, and technical best practices.
  • Support customer-facing technical discussions by providing deep product and engineering expertise.
  • Help improve product reliability, performance, scalability, and overall customer satisfaction.
  • Operate in a fast-paced environment where technical ownership, collaboration, and customer impact are key.

What We’re Looking For:

  • 5+ years of backend development experience, preferably working on customer-facing or customer-centric products.
  • Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript, or comparable backend technologies.
  • Deep understanding of backend architecture, including microservices, API design, distributed systems, and design patterns.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including services such as serverless computing, managed databases, storage, queues, and observability tools.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Experience building and scaling systems that process high volumes of data.
  • Proven ability to solve complex technical problems and deliver performant, scalable, production-grade solutions.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across globally distributed teams.
  • Experience working in agile development environments.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern software delivery practices.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience in cybersecurity, application security, DevSecOps, or software supply chain security.
  • Experience working closely with enterprise customers.
  • Background in technical consulting, solutions engineering, customer engineering, or field engineering.
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, incident investigation, and production troubleshooting.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD ecosystems, source control platforms, container security, SAST, SCA, DAST, or cloud security tools.
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FocusBackend EngineeringRole area
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StackAWS, Azure, CI/CDPrimary skills
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