Senior Backend Engineer (APIs)

About Everard Commerce:

Since 1984, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards. Built and run from Toronto, the site connects pet owners with local sitters and dog walkers.

The role:

Everard Commerce has an opening for a Senior Backend Engineer (APIs). Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. We hire in the US through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Day to day:

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

What you get:

Pay range: $160,000 - $220,000 a year. Final offer will depend on experience.

• Company laptop.
• Co-working space stipend.
• Paid sick days.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Home office setup budget.
• 24 days paid time off.

We read every application and reply within about a week.

Start: Immediately.

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