Senior Backend Engineer

You’ll be joining an Analytics team responsible for all measurement, attribution, and the creation of an intuitive reporting UI for our digital marketing platform. This is a unique opportunity to shape how marketers view and interact with data - transforming raw metrics into insights that drive impactful campaigns and real business value. Join us to make your mark on a fast-growing team, take ownership of innovative projects, and work closely with cross-functional partners to build a product that marketing teams rely on daily.

Responsibilities:

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems that power our measurement, attribution, and reporting capabilities

Develop robust data pipelines and services to transform raw event streams and metrics into actionable insights

Collaborate closely with stakeholders to define and shape a seamless, intuitive reporting UI that empowers users to understand and act on provided insights

Own key backend components—from service architecture to deployment and monitoring—ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance at scale

Champion engineering best practices around code quality, testing, observability, and system health

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement

Qualifications:

5+ years software engineering experience

Experience building and maintaining large distributed systems at scale that are fault tolerant and highly concurrent

Exemplary software engineering skills (design, unit testing, git, code review, CI/CD)

Strong foundation in modern backend development (e.g. python, ruby, etc. - we use Python and Elixir)

Experience with functional programming principles (we use Elixir)

An understanding of common web based API architectures (RESTful, GraphQL) and technologies (gRPC)

Experience with a cloud provider e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP (we use Google Cloud Platform)

Experience with modern distributed and microservice technologies (we use Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ)

Experience with both OLTP and OLAP systems, including designing schemas and optimizing queries

Familiar with Software Development Lifecycle practices, such as continuous integration/continuous delivery and automated deployment (we use tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Github Actions, etc.)

Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to collaborate with others, communicate effectively, advocate appropriately and mentor more junior engineers to improve team efficiency

Exceptional problem-solving skills, including the ability to efficiently identify, analyze, and resolve complex issues, and communicate to others on the team how to contribute to the solutions for these issues.

A willingness and eagerness to continuously learn, adapt to evolving technologies, and strive for personal and professional improvement

The base pay range for this position is $140,000-$180,000/year CAD, which can include additional bonus depending on the position ultimately offered, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. The base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.