Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Posted 2024-11-12

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💎 Seniority level: Staff, 7+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years of technical leadership experience

📍 Location: Canada

🔍 Industry: Fintech, SMB software, Consumer products

⏳ Experience: 7+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years of technical leadership experience

🪄 Skills: Backend DevelopmentLeadershipDesign PatternsDocumentation

Requirements:

7+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years of technical leadership experience.
Deep experience with backend development and distributed systems; payments experience is a plus.
Excellent product instincts focusing on user needs and business context, experience in shipping consumer-facing products.
Effective communicator, capable of coordinating across teams to ship critical products.
Architectural and system design expertise in developing highly scalable distributed systems.

Responsibilities:

Provide technical leadership to a distributed engineering team to design new and enhance existing product offerings.
Advise the leadership team on key technology and product roadmap considerations.
Own problems from end to end, considering business impact, reliability, operability, and security.
Collaborate with Product Managers to prioritize roadmap initiatives and participate in product ideation.
Drive engineering standards forward and mentor newer team members.

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