Backend Engineer

About us

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Founded in 2008, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. Founded in 2008, we now have 140 employees.

What this job is

Ironwoodland has an opening for a Backend Engineer. The Platform team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote position. Most of the team is in Toronto, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

In your first few months you will

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces

Requirements

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

What we offer

Compensation: $119,000 - $144,000 a year

• Extended health and dental benefits
• RRSP matching
• Paid vacation
• Flexible hours

We review applications on a rolling basis.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Ironwoodland.