Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 October 7

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $72.1k - $138.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Capgemini

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1967

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with businesses to transform and manage their operations by harnessing the power of technology. With expertise across a wide array of industries such as aerospace, automotive, banking, and healthcare, Capgemini provides a constantly evolving portfolio of services to meet the ever-changing needs of their clients. Their offerings include cloud, cybersecurity, data and artificial intelligence, and enterprise management, among others. Capgemini also emphasizes innovation and sustainability, helping companies achieve digital transformation while promoting environmental and social responsibility. Additionally, Capgemini provides career opportunities across various levels and professions, encouraging innovation and diversity in its workforce.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end migration of legacy media processing platforms, including architecture design, data modeling, backfill strategies, phased cutovers, and legacy system decommissioning • Design and develop event-driven media processing pipelines using Kafka and asynchronous workflows • Build and maintain media ingestion, processing, storage, and lifecycle management solutions for images, videos, and documents • Implement privacy, trust, and compliance controls, including GDPR-compliant data deletion, content validation, and secure handling of user-generated content • Develop and support integrations with third-party media processing and transcoding providers, including webhook management, error handling, and operational monitoring • Design and enhance APIs, GraphQL services, and data models while ensuring scalability, consistency, backward compatibility, and high performance • Drive platform modernization initiatives and ensure media services meet high standards of reliability, scalability, privacy, and compliance

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments • Strong expertise in Java and Kotlin backend development, microservices architecture, and service-to-service integrations • Proven experience with event-driven architectures, including Kafka, asynchronous processing, workflow orchestration, and distributed systems design • Experience leading large-scale platform migrations, including cutover planning, backfills, rollback strategies, and schema evolution • Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling, change data capture (CDC), and data lifecycle management • Experience with caching technologies such as Redis, cache invalidation strategies, and high-performance backend systems • Strong operational and troubleshooting experience, including production support, monitoring, alerting, incident response, runbook creation, and service reliability engineering • Experience building or supporting media processing platforms, content management systems, transcoding workflows, CDN integrations, or content safety solutions

🏖️ Benefits

• Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade • Company paid holidays • Personal Days • Sick Leave • Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada) • Retirement savings plans (RRSP in Canada) • Life and disability insurance • Employee assistance programs • Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility • May be eligible for variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions

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