Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Cost Engineering)

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Location - Remote Canada. This remote role is open only to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan.Full-TimeSenior
SalaryCAN base pay range per year: CAD $153,000 - $213,000.
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Job Details

Experience
4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale
Required Skills
AWSPythonKotlinKubernetesMySQLDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • Have 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
  • Have experience with backend languages such as Python or Kotlin.
  • Have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems.
  • Have experience with technologies such as AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
  • Have experience supporting scale-up and scale-down for large sales events.
  • Have tuned autoscaling, CPU and memory, and multithreading for compute workloads.
  • Have experience defining a technical plan for a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple, and extensible design.
  • Write high-quality code that is understandable and usable by others.
  • Be proficient at making significant changes in a large codebase and have tools and practices to do so safely.
  • Have equivalent practical experience or a bachelor's degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver quarterly goals for the team.
  • Lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems and support them throughout delivery.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics during ideation and technical decision-making.
  • Identify and lead the resolution of project, process, technology, and business issues.
  • Create and monitor metrics, escalate issues, and support operational availability and on-call efforts.
  • Set or improve code review and design standards, and advocate for them through writing and tech talks.
  • Provide feedback and guidance to develop talent on the team.
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CAN base pay range per year: CAD $153,000 - $213,000.
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