Backend Tech Lead — Azure/Databricks & Cloud Solutions

United States Digital Space LLC; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 86,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Pension & share plan

Paid time off

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in Toronto, Ontario is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build cloud-native solutions on Azure, lead architectural decisions, and guide the full software development lifecycle in an Agile team.

You will work with Databricks, PySpark, Azure Data Factory, and SQL Server; implement CI/CD via Azure DevOps/Jenkins/GitHub Actions; and mentor teammates while leveraging telemetry tools like New Relic and Dynatrace.

Qualifications

• 5+ years back-end development in Databricks, PySpark, Azure Data Factory and SQL Server.
• 5+ years experience deploying cloud-native solutions on Azure.
• 5+ years working with CI/CD via Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Proven experience in designing software systems and documenting with UML.
• Decision-driven, solution-oriented approach with clear professional judgment.
• Ability to communicate complex information within distributed teams; Java/Spring Boot familiarity is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work in an Agile team to create, deliver and maintain high-quality, performant, and secure solutions.
• Use a proactive approach to common challenges and continually research industry standard methodologies in software development.
• Assess the target (future) state of the organization’s technology needs to achieve the business objectives.
• Provide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle, ensuring architectural consistency and engineering excellence.
• Lead the design and review of software systems, making high-level decisions on architecture and technology choices.
• Build the solutions to close identified gaps and improve our systems.
• Pair program with other software engineers or AI tools to learn, coach, and mentor.
• Consume and contribute to open source and inner source projects.
• Help us build up our performance and reliability story using tools like New Relic, Dynatrace, and Moogsoft for performance monitoring, end-to-end logging, and other telemetry data.
• Learn and become proficient in various technologies as required.

Skills

Backend development

Azure cloud

CI/CD

UML

Communication

Java Spring Boot

JavaScript React NodeJS

Tools

Databricks

PySpark

Azure Data Factory

SQL Server

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Java Spring Boot

New Relic

Dynatrace

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC in Toronto, Ontario is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build cloud-native solutions on Azure, lead architectural decisions, and guide the full software development lifecycle in an Agile team.

You will work with Databricks, PySpark, Azure Data Factory, and SQL Server; implement CI/CD via Azure DevOps/Jenkins/GitHub Actions; and mentor teammates while leveraging telemetry tools like New Relic and Dynatrace.