Remote Senior API Platform Engineer

Userc Dehradun; Canada; Remote; CAD 107,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

MaintainX, a Canada-based remote-friendly tech company, is hiring a Senior Software Developer for the API Platform and Ecosystem. You will design, build, and operate robust backend APIs and platform components, ensuring scalability, reliability, and strong developer experience.

The role emphasizes API standardization, large-scale data migrations, and cross-functional collaboration with product and design. Ideal candidates have 4+ years in backend/API work with TS/Go/C# and relational databases.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend systems, APIs or platform products.
• Strong experience with service-oriented backend development and one of the following languages (TypeScript, Go, C#).
• Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) including schema design and query optimization.
• Solid foundation in distributed systems: reliability, scalability, consistency, and failure modes.
• Experience delivering production-grade APIs with focus on developer experience and platform usability.
• Strong testing mindset (unit, integration, end-to-end, contract testing) and CI/CD experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate MaintainX’s public-facing REST APIs with focus on consistency, scalability and developer experience.
• Implement platform standards: authentication, rate limiting, versioning, filtering, pagination, idempotency and error semantics.
• Design and implement batch/bulk API operations for enterprise data sync and migrations.
• Decouple REST from monolithic deps and ensure compatibility via contract testing.
• Build scaffolding, templates, and shared libraries for faster integration development.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and release automation for integrations and ecosystem services.
• Produce developer docs and reference implementations (SDKs).
• Own production services end-to-end: monitoring, on-call, incident response, root-cause analysis.

Skills

Backend development

API development

TypeScript

Go

C#

Relational databases

SQL optimization

Distributed systems

Testing (unit/integration)

CI/CD

Job description

MaintainX, a Canada-based remote-friendly tech company, is hiring a Senior Software Developer for the API Platform and Ecosystem. You will design, build, and operate robust backend APIs and platform components, ensuring scalability, reliability, and strong developer experience.

The role emphasizes API standardization, large-scale data migrations, and cross-functional collaboration with product and design. Ideal candidates have 4+ years in backend/API work with TS/Go/C# and relational databases.