Back-End Engineer - Remote

We have partnered with an early-stage Canadian tech startup to search for a Back-End engineering specialist to join their team in a full-time, permanent, remote role.   In this role, you'd focus on the ongoing development of our client's core product leveraging your expertise in development, architecture, and infrastructure.  The ideal candidate is a self-starter, with a deep technical understanding, strong communication skills, and a passion for developing products and tools that directly impact emerging software development practices.  

The Role:

• Develop and scale backend infrastructure with an eye toward system architecture, concurrency, async operations, reliability and security.
• Collaborate with product and growth engineering teams to assess feedback from the developer community and translate that feedback to inform product development.
• Design, develop, and monitor key delivery, infrastructure, and production environments ensuring performance and uptime in accordance with SLA/SLO metrics.

Qualifications:

• Passion for developing and maintaining tools and products that enhance the developer experience
• Strong technical expertise leveraging Kubernetes, Serverless Architecture, Postgres, Redis, Go, and Nodejs.  
• Solid experience with SRE best practices relating to performance and monitoring.
• Strong understanding and experience with modern WebHook and API tooling
• High standards for quality and ability to work autonomously
• 5 years of relevant engineering experience, ideally focused in start-up/scale-up environments where flexibility and pivoting around priorities is the norm.  

Benefits:

• Fully remote work environment
• Focus on wellness, learning, and growth
• Flexible work schedule
• Stock option plan