Principal Backend Engineer

Company overview:

Since 2012, the company has sold practice management software to dental and veterinary clinics in Canada. Founded in 2012, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

We are adding a Principal Backend Engineer to our Platform team. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Our team is spread across 12 countries. Headquarters is in Montreal. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in the US, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

In this role you will:

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces

You'll need:

• 8-10 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Compensation and benefits:

Pay range: $190,000 - $255,000 annually. Final offer will depend on experience.

• Home office setup budget
• Stock options
• 20 days paid time off
• Co-working space stipend

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Start: Flexible.

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