Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Backend

🔥 48 minutes ago

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $180k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Syndio

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

⚖️ Legal

Consulting • Healthcare • Legal

Syndio is a leading provider of pay equity solutions, focusing on helping organizations achieve pay transparency and equity across their workforce. The company offers a comprehensive platform with a range of tools and expert consulting to address pay gaps, ensure compliance, and make informed compensation decisions. Syndio empowers companies to develop strategies for fair and explainable pay policies, streamlining reporting and analytics to meet global compliance standards efficiently. With a strong emphasis on data privacy and security, Syndio is trusted by numerous large enterprises to analyze compensation for millions of employees worldwide.

📋 Description

• Design, ship, and operate core distributed microservices written in Go and Python • Build real-time event streaming and data processing pipelines using Kafka • Architect performant, flexible API interfaces across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC • Design efficient schemas and optimize query performance for relational storage using Postgres and modern ORMs • Provision, maintain, and scale cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS using Terraform and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines • Ensure high reliability, low latency, and operational visibility across backend systems using Datadog • Own systems end-to-end from API design and data modeling to deploying resilient infrastructure and monitoring production performance • Independently own sub-systems, optimize Postgres/ORM data paths, manage cloud infrastructure updates, lead a major event-driven or API capability, and take on-call responsibilities

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years building and operating backend systems in production • Deep comfort with Go and Python, with strong experience building concurrent, high-performance systems • Strong database fundamentals with Postgres and relational ORMs, including query optimization and schema migration strategies • Experience building and maintaining event-driven architectures with Kafka • Expertise designing production APIs across REST, GraphQL, or gRPC • Hands-on experience with GCP and/or AWS, Terraform, and GitHub Actions • Familiarity with observability, distributed tracing, and metrics tooling in Datadog • Strong written communication to author design docs and lead clear PR reviews • Ability to own a technical domain with light supervision, propose direction in writing with clear specs, take review, ship, and carry the pager for what you shipped

🏖️ Benefits

• Syndio Equity • Flexible Vacation Policy (up to 20 days PTO in Canada) • Paid sick & safe time • Compassion leave • Voting leave • Medical, Dental, Vision; Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums and 50% for dependents • Life Insurance & Disability; Syndio covers the full premium • Remote-first in US + Alberta • Non-mandatory office available in Calgary