Senior Backend Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Sep 10, 2026
This job expires in: 29 days
Job Summary
Seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to work remotely in Canada, this full-time position involves designing, building, and maintaining secure and scalable backend systems while providing technical direction and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Key responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain secure and reliable backend systems
- Provide technical direction and lead architecture discussions across multiple applications
- Collaborate with Product, Operations, and engineering teams to coordinate the delivery of software solutions
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
- Strong experience with Python, Go, or similar backend languages
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and working with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience supporting production systems and responding to incidents
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