Software Engineer – Backend

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Workiy Inc.

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2008

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🛍️ eCommerce

Consulting • Marketing • eCommerce

Workiy Inc. is a global digital solutions company specializing in comprehensive services for web and mobile application development, digital marketing, and cloud transformation. With a focus on tailored technology solutions, Workiy aims to empower businesses by enhancing their digital presence through innovative strategies including custom software development, UX/UI design, and enterprise application management. The company operates with a client-centric approach, showcasing extensive expertise in various technologies such as Drupal, Shopify, and Salesforce, promoting efficient business operations and enhanced user experiences.

📋 Description

• Own the technical roadmap for backend services: reporting, data access, scheduled processing, and export/delivery • Drive architectural decisions across multiple interdependent services and data sources, and document them for the team • Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, testing practices, API design conventions, and observability • Review designs and code from other engineers, and unblock them on hard technical problems • Break down ambiguous requirements into a clear technical plan the team can execute against • Balance short-term delivery pressure against long-term technical health; call out and manage technical debt deliberately • Partner directly with product, QA, and other engineering teams to align on scope, sequencing, and dependencies • Lead and propose ideas/solutions in cross-team architecture discussions and vendor/platform evaluations • Mentor engineers on the team and help grow their technical judgment, not just their task list • Contribute code, especially for the highest-risk or highest-ambiguity problems

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years building and operating production backend systems, with demonstrated technical leadership (formal or informal) • Strong hands-on experience with a modern backend language and framework (e.g. Java/Spring, Kotlin, C#/.NET, Node.js, Python, or Go) • Track record of making and owning architectural decisions across multiple services, not just within one • Solid relational database experience (schema design, migrations, query performance) at a systems-design level • Experience designing REST APIs and service contracts that other teams build against • Experience with cloud platforms, GCP preferred • Strong understanding of authentication/authorization patterns and security tradeoffs in distributed systems • Experience coordinating work and dependencies across multiple engineers and multiple services • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization, including improving pipeline health and delivery velocity • Strong background in building scalable, distributed applications and platforms • Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting tradeoffs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders • Experience integrating with BI/analytics or data-warehouse platforms • Background in regulated or audit-sensitive domains (healthcare, finance, insurance) where data lineage and correctness are strict requirements • Experience leading a system through a migration or major architectural shift • Experience designing asynchronous or scheduled processing for large data volumes • Experience establishing role-based access control and data visibility enforcement at a system-design level • Experience mentoring engineers and running technical planning (grooming, estimation, design reviews) • Experience with distributed caching or session/token stores • Enough frontend familiarity to review API design from the consumer's perspective • Experience building out observability and logging practices for a team, not just using them