Backend Engineer (Java)

Who we are

Toronto Interactive is a 14-person team running a niche online store for vintage audio parts. Growth has come from search and word of mouth, not paid ads.

The role

Looking for a Backend Engineer (Java) who wants to stay somewhere for a while. The operations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote within Canada. The team meets in Toronto once a quarter, travel covered. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

What you'll work on

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.

About you

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.

Compensation and benefits

• Life insurance.
• Paid vacation.
• Paid sick days.
• Group RRSP with employer matching.
• RRSP matching.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Start: Immediately.

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