Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Permanent
Job Description
Our client is a Vancouver-based high-growth, well-funded SaaS company dedicated to enhancing software development workflows. Their platform helps development teams quickly find answers to their application-related questions, significantly reducing time spent in meetings and on interruptions, and allowing them to focus more on coding.
With an experienced founding team (second-time founders), this is a small, agile team with large ambitions and the capacity and capability to deliver. This role will offer a unique opportunity to shape their product vision and roadmap through customer and user feedback.
They are searching for a Senior Backend Engineer to join their growing team. You will be:
-Building and optimizing scalable data pipelines that ingest large amounts of data (structured and unstructured);
-Build integrations with third-party services and APIs;
-Work closely with designers and front-end developers to create and implement end-to-end user experiences
-Collab with DevOps, you will own the security and resilience of the systems you build
This is a senior engineer role for someone who has a proven track record of building and shipping products. You will have an understanding of what to avoid and canny know-how of what to automate.
Must Have Skills:
To be successful in this role, you must:
-Expert-level software development skills in a modern, type-safe language
-Experience with microservices architecture
-Proven experience building well-tested, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems.
-Experience working with APIs and REST-ful services.
-Familiarity with a Cloud Platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
-Demonstrated leadership of fellow team members in the delivery of a project.
-Experience collaborating with DevOps teams.
Please note that due to the small team environment and the growth being experienced by the business, this is an on-site role in Vancouver, BC.
Special Perks:
Equity
Medical/Dental Benefits
Flex Vacation Policy
Choice of Apple Hardware