Staff Software Developer, Backend Streams

🔥 33 minutes ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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📋 Description

• Drive the architecture and evolution of ETL and data processing systems ingesting customer product catalogs into the internal product catalog platform • Design systems that reliably process large, variable datasets from thousands of customers with complex schemas, transformations, validation rules, dependencies, and imperfect source data • Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across ingestion, transformation, persistence, indexing, and retrieval • Design horizontally scalable distributed processing systems with guarantees around correctness, idempotency, fault tolerance, retries, and recovery • Evolve foundational platform architecture as the product catalog grows • Partner with product and engineering leadership on technical direction, foundational investments, and scale planning • Mentor senior engineers, conduct architecture reviews, and enable high-quality development across teams • Champion scalability, resiliency, observability, and maintainability for backend systems • Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning teams and business stakeholders • Shape the long-term technical vision and engineering culture • Influence hiring, onboarding, and growth strategies

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience building and operating scalable, reliable systems in production environments • Strong experience designing and operating complex ETL pipelines, data processing platforms, or other high-throughput data-intensive systems • Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including concurrency, partitioning, consistency, idempotency, retries, failure recovery, and horizontal scaling • Experience with performance engineering, profiling complex systems, identifying bottlenecks, understanding resource utilization, and improving throughput and latency • Experience working with large datasets and designing efficient approaches to transformation, persistence, indexing, and retrieval • Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, networking, and databases • Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems focused on performance, observability, reliability, and fault tolerance • Strong architectural instincts and ability to make high-leverage technical decisions impacting multiple teams and systems • Ability to influence and mentor senior engineers, guide teams through ambiguity, and elevate engineering practices • Exceptional ownership mindset • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills • Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-autonomy, product-driven environment • Experience with data engineering, data ingestion platforms, product catalogues, e-commerce data, search systems, or similar domains is strongly preferred • Familiarity with Python, Django, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and AWS is strongly preferred; analogous systems expertise and willingness to learn accepted

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first work arrangement • Work anywhere in the world for up to 3 months • Parental leave program • Work-from-home stipend • Birthday and company birthday days off

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