Senior Backend Engineer - AI-First, Scalable Systems

Incognito Software Systems Inc; Canada; Remote; CAD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-wide bonus plan

Health, dental and vision benefits

Flexible work week schedule

Birthday off

Professional development allocation

Regular hackathons

Job summary

BiblioCommons, a Toronto-based software company powering libraries, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to build scalable platforms for millions of users and to drive AI-enabled development within the team.

You will design, implement, and own critical backend services, lead projects, and mentor engineers while collaborating across product, data, and platform teams to raise the bar on reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional backend software development experience.
• Hands-on experience with Java, Spring, and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with AI-enabled development and coding agents.
• Strong debugging and ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build new platforms and improve existing systems for millions of users.
• Champion AI-first development practices across the team.
• Design spec-driven development with coding agents.
• Review code, mentor Juniors, and support operations.

Skills

Backend development

Java

Distributed systems

AI-enabled development

APIs design

Code review

Mentoring

Tools

Spring

Maven/Gradle

Job description

BiblioCommons, a Toronto-based software company powering libraries, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to build scalable platforms for millions of users and to drive AI-enabled development within the team.

You will design, implement, and own critical backend services, lead projects, and mentor engineers while collaborating across product, data, and platform teams to raise the bar on reliability and performance.