Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 September 11

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $145k - $155k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Tucows Domains

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Marketing • SaaS

Tucows Domains is a domain registration and management service brand under parent company Tucows, operating well-known registrars and platforms such as OpenSRS, Enom, Ascio, and Hover. It provides ICANN-accredited domain registration, WHOIS lookup and lookup-based support, domain provider and hosting services, and tools for resellers and end customers to manage domains and related DNS/hosting functions. Tucows also offers policy, abuse-reporting, and support resources for expired/redirected domains and emphasizes making the internet better through advocacy and compliance.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, test, and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable backend systems • Provide technical direction across multiple applications and services • Lead architecture and design discussions and document important technical decisions • Translate business and product requirements into practical technical plans • Break down initiatives, coordinate technical work, and manage dependencies and blockers • Collaborate with Product, Operations, and other engineering teams to coordinate delivery • Design and maintain APIs, database schemas, integrations, and data contracts • Improve system performance, security, observability, and maintainability • Review code and technical designs and help maintain engineering standards • Debug complex production issues and lead the technical response to incidents • Write and maintain automated tests, technical documentation, and CI/CD workflows • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience • Experience providing technical direction while remaining hands-on • Experience leading complex initiatives across multiple systems or services • Strong experience with Python, Go, or similar backend languages • Experience designing RESTful APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI or Gin • Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization • Strong understanding of HTTP, REST, JSON, XML, and related web technologies • Experience supporting production systems and responding to incidents • Experience with automated testing, Continuous Integration, Git, and modern development workflows • Strong communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills • Experience working in a remote, distributed team

🏖️ Benefits

• Fair compensation and generous benefits • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities • Benefits and privileges of employment