Senior Backend Engineer

eleven-X Inc.; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Team events

Lunches provided

Health benefits

Growth opportunities

Hybrid work

Job summary

eleven-x is transforming the parking experience with sensor-based space-occupancy monitoring and a cloud platform. We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own backend design through production for the eXactPark cloud solution.

You will work with cross-functional teams to improve reliability, scale, and security, while mentoring engineers and applying AI-assisted tools responsibly. Hybrid work is offered with supportive benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong PHP 8+ experience with Laravel as primary framework.
• Experience with relational DBs (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and ORM (Eloquent).
• Design and implement REST APIs and OpenAPI specs.
• Experience with auth, tokens, roles and permissions.
• Familiar with queues, Redis, and async processing.
• Proficient in automated testing (PHPUnit/Pest).
• Proven system-design and technical leadership abilities.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, and data workflows.
• Lead architecture decisions balancing reliability and performance.
• Ensure secure behavior across auth, background processing, and production operations.
• Diagnose production issues, improve observability and resilience.
• Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and other stakeholders to deliver reliable outcomes.
• Mentor engineers through reviews and technical guidance.
• Use AI-assisted tools responsibly to accelerate development while maintaining judgment.

Skills

PHP 8+

Laravel

Eloquent ORM

MySQL/PostgreSQL

REST APIs

Authentication/Authorization

Queues/Async processing

Caching

Testing (PHPUnit/Pest)

Git & CI/CD

System design/leadership

AI-assisted tools

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

eleven-x is transforming the parking experience through its industry-leading parking technology: a sensor-based space-occupancy monitoring solution and comprehensive software platform that enables frictionless parking. Our solution includes our own hardware, firmware, network solutions, web applications, and mobile applications. Customers rely on our expertise to deliver comprehensive, easy-to-use, scalable solutions that reduce costs, drive additional revenue, and deliver better services.

Come grow with us!

We have an active opening for a full-time Senior Backend Engineer to strengthen the systems behind our eXactPark cloud solution. You will own backend capabilities from technical design through production operation, work across product and engineering teams, and improve the reliability and scalability of software that connects hardware, networks, and customer-facing applications.

You'll work with people who share the same values of being passionate, innovative, accountable, collaborative, and respectful. We take care of our teammates by offering meaningful and challenging work, growth opportunities, stock options, team events and lunches, competitive wages, 4 weeks paid holidays per year, hybrid work (at least 1 day per month), flexible hours, and health benefits.

Job Responsibilities include:

• Design, build, and operate maintainable backend services, APIs, integrations, and data workflows.
• Lead technical design and architecture decisions for backend capabilities, balancing product needs, reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Deliver secure application behavior across authentication, authorization, background processing, scheduling, caching, and production operations.
• Diagnose production issues, improve observability and resilience, and support effective incident investigation and resolution.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, DevOps, Customer Success, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements, manage technical risk, and deliver reliable outcomes.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, implementation guidance, and constructive technical feedback.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to accelerate development, debugging, testing, and documentation while maintaining sound engineering judgment.

To be Successful in this role, you will have:

• Minimum of 6 years' experience
• Strong PHP 8+ experience (6+ years), with Laravel as the primary framework; Symfony or other modern backend-framework experience is also welcome.
• Strong experience with Eloquent ORM, migrations, relational data modelling, and MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Experience designing and implementing REST APIs, OpenAPI specifications, and third-party integrations.
• Experience with authentication and authorization, including policies, roles, permissions, and token-based access.
• Experience with queues, jobs, events, scheduling, Redis, Horizon or comparable asynchronous-processing tooling.
• Experience with caching, backend performance tuning, production debugging, and operational support.
• Strong automated-testing practice using PHPUnit, Pest, or similar feature and unit testing frameworks.
• Proven system-design and architecture experience, including production decision-making and technical leadership.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools as part of a responsible development workflow.
• Git and CI/CD experience.

You may also have:

• Geospatial experience, including PostGIS or QGIS.
• Experience with IoT products or systems where hardware, software, and networking intersect.
• Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript experience.
• Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), or cloud-native operational experience.
• Experience with event-driven systems, distributed integrations, or high-volume data processing.

Common soft-skill requirements:

• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Ownership and sound judgment in driving technical and quality outcomes.
• Ability to make and explain pragmatic architecture and production decisions.
• Proactive collaboration across teams.
• A mentoring mindset and constructive approach to technical leadership.

We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. While we appreciate the interest of all candidates, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Artificial intelligence may be used during our recruitment and candidate screening process.