Senior Backend Engineer

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🇨🇦 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

• Design, migrate, and operate media ingestion, processing, storage, and lifecycle-management systems for images, video, and documents • Drive end-to-end migrations of legacy media-processing services to a modern replacement platform • Design data models, dual-write/backfill strategies, phased cutovers, rollback plans, and legacy cleanup • Build Kafka/event-schema-based consumers and producers for asynchronous media-processing workflows • Implement GDPR-compliant hard-deletion workflows across storage and CDN layers • Integrate personal-data detection, content-integrity checks, and safe-content transformation into upload and creation flows • Build and maintain integrations with third-party transcoding and processing vendors • Handle webhooks, rate limiting, and failure scenarios • Write on-call runbooks and alerting for critical endpoints • Manage service-mesh permissions, tune consumer/throughput settings, and resolve memory, latency, and backpressure issues • Design and extend database schemas and GraphQL/API layers for media entities • Partner with trust and safety, privacy, and adjacent platform teams to translate compliance and product requirements into pipeline changes

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, ideally on high-scale distributed systems • Strong experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent), service meshes, and microservice-to-microservice integration • Experience owning large-scale service migrations, including safe cutover strategies, backfills, and rollback plans • Solid grounding in relational/NoSQL data modeling and schema evolution • Experience with caching layers (Redis or similar), CDC/change-data-capture pipelines, and cache invalidation strategies • Comfort with operational ownership, including writing alerts, runbooks, and debugging production incidents • Experience with media/video processing pipelines, third-party transcoding vendors, or content-safety systems

🏖️ 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 (e.g., RRSP in Canada) • Life and disability insurance • Employee assistance programs • Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility • Potential eligibility for variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions