Backend Engineer, .NET

Who we are:

Sellers use the platform to list used outdoor gear, and we handle payments, shipping labels and buyer protection. Niagara Digital runs an online marketplace where homeowners book local handymen, cleaners and movers.

About the role:

We are adding a Backend Engineer,.NET to our Core API team. The Core API team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote within Canada. The team meets in Toronto once a quarter, travel covered. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

In your first few months you will:

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

About you:

• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Terraform or Pulumi
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB

Pay and benefits:

Rate: $127,000 - $150,000 annually

• Home office allowance

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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