Senior Backend Engineer

LotusFlare, Inc; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A cloud-native technology company is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer in Toronto to develop and enhance the backend infrastructure for their innovative digital commerce platform. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of software engineering experience, particularly in Lua, Java, and Scala, with strong skills in scalable distributed systems. This role involves collaborating with product teams and taking ownership of code development. Enjoy competitive salary, flexible working hours, and numerous growth opportunities while working with top engineers.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Paid lunch (In the office)

Yearly bonus

Training and workshops

Truly flexible working hours

Top-of-the-class engineers to learn from and work with

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Experience with complex time-critical issues.
• Worked on a product with a large user base.
• Passion for scalable, highly available distributed systems.
• Code should be reusable, maintainable, and well documented.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the software development lifecycle.
• Handle production incidents or outages.
• Collaborate closely with product and other engineering teams.
• Take ownership of the code and applications you write.

Skills

Software Engineering

Lua

Java

Scala

Amazon Web Services

Azure

NoSQL databases

HTTP Protocol

RESTful services

Kafka

Job description

LotusFlare is a provider of cloud-native SaaS products based in the heart of Silicon Valley. Founded by the team that helped Facebook reach over one billion users, LotusFlare was founded to make affordable mobile communications available to everyone on Earth.

Today, LotusFlare focuses on designing, building, and continuously evolving a digital commerce and monetization platform that delivers valuable outcomes for enterprises. Our platform, Digital Network Operator® (DNO™) Cloud, is licensed to telecommunications services providers and supports millions of customers globally.

LotusFlare has also designed and built the leading eSIM travel product - Nomad. Nomad provides global travelers with high-speed, affordable data connectivity in over 190 countries. Nomad is available as an iOS or Android app or via getnomad.app.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Server Engineering team, based in Toronto.

Overview:

Senior Backend Engineers at LotusFlare are replacing traditional business backends with an engagement-centric, dynamic product stack. They are responsible for further developing, securing, and scaling the backend infrastructure to support the platform in order to handle millions of concurrent API calls. Every engineer is an integral part of our global engineering team and as such is directly responsible for more than half of a million users of our platforms. They are working on mission-critical, highly available distributed systems.

• Your day starts usually with a daily meeting/standup/quick sync up
• Your daily responsibilities include the entire software cycle from developing/testing, to code reviews and maintaining/managing your code/application on production.
• You closely collaborate with product and and other functional engineering teams
• You take time out of your day to closely collaborate with your teammates, asking questions or providing answers
• You take ownership of the code you write

Requirements:

• You are experienced in the end-to-end software development lifecycle (design, implementation, debugging, testing, and maintenance).
• You have dealt with complex time-critical issues (production incidents or outages).
• You have worked on a product with a large user base.
• You have a strong passion for scalable, highly available, distributed systems.
• You make sure that the code you write is reusable, maintainable, and well documented.
• You are driven by dealing with new challenges every day.
• You have a knack for driving change, proposing new solutions as well as challenging others' ideas.
• You enjoy sharing your knowledge with other people, as well as learning from them.

Skills:

• You have at least 5 years of experience working as a Software Engineer
• You have experience with Lua, Java, and Scala programming languages.
• You have experience with Amazon Web Services and/or Azure.
• You have experience with NoSQL databases (preferably Redis or Cassandra).
• You have an advanced understanding of the network stack, HTTP protocol, and RESTful services.
• You have experience with messaging platforms like Kafka.
• Competitive salary package.
• Paid lunch (In the office)
• Yearly bonus
• Training and workshops
• Truly flexible working hours
• Top-of-the-class engineers to learn from and work with

About:

At LotusFlare, we attract and keep amazing people by offering two key things:

• Purposeful Work: Every team member sees how their efforts make a tangible, positive difference for our customers and partners.
• Growth Opportunities : We provide the chance to develop professionally while mastering cutting-edge practices in cloud-native enterprise software.

From the beginning, our mission has been to simplify technology to create better experiences for customers. Using an “experience down” approach, which prioritizes the customer's journey at every stage of development, our Digital Network Operator™ Cloud empowers communication service providers to achieve valuable business outcomes. DNO Cloud enables communication service providers to innovate freely, reduce operational costs, monetize network assets, engage customers on all digital channels, drive customer acquisition, and increase retention.

With headquarters in Santa Clara, California, and five major offices worldwide, LotusFlare serves Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, A1, Globe Telecom, Liberty Latin America, Singtel, and other leading enterprises around the world.

If you require disability related accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please advise the Human Resources Department as soon as possible. Accommodation may be provided in all steps of the hiring process.