Senior Back-End Developer

About us:

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.

What this job is:

Niagara Digital has an opening for a Senior Back-End Developer. The Orders team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote, open to candidates across Canada. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Day to day:

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

What you bring:

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

What you get:

Salary range: $156,000 - $193,000 per year

• Extended health and dental benefits
• RRSP matching
• Three weeks paid vacation to start
• Life insurance

Start: Immediately.

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