Backend Systems Engineer — Scale & Microservices

DoorDash; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Toronto seeks an experienced Product Engineer to enhance backend services and architecture. Responsibilities include developing large-scale web applications and transitioning to microservice architecture. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in industry, strong backend technology experience, and a degree in Computer Science. The role offers excellent benefits and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Premium healthcare

Wellness expense reimbursement

Paid parental leave

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience.
• Prior experience working with backend tech stacks.
• Ability to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.

Responsibilities

• Develop, release and run large-scale web applications.
• Define backend architecture and tech stack.
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for backend systems.

Skills

Backend tech stacks

Service oriented architecture

REST APIs

Unit testing

SQL and NoSQL databases

Java/Kotlin

Education

B.S., M.S., or PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Elasticsearch

RabbitMQ

Job description

A leading logistics company in Toronto seeks an experienced Product Engineer to enhance backend services and architecture. Responsibilities include developing large-scale web applications and transitioning to microservice architecture. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in industry, strong backend technology experience, and a degree in Computer Science. The role offers excellent benefits and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.