Senior Backend Engineer — APIs, Data, & Systems Ownership

Parallel Domain; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Parallel Domain is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own delivery across the stack, from API design to production. You’ll build and ship features for Python backends, REST/gRPC APIs, relational databases, and React frontends while taking ownership of reliability and quality.

Expect collaboration with product, SRE, and field engineering, plus a focus on observability, testing standards, and scalable data pipelines. This role is based in Canada with a strong emphasis on end-to-end ownership.

Qualifications

• Track record of delivering complex backend features.
• API design experience with RESTful APIs.
• Python web frameworks and relational databases.
• Containerized deployment with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Production service ownership including monitoring and on-call.
• Requirement gathering and collaboration with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Expand and maintain customer-facing services and APIs.
• Design and implement APIs and data models.
• Collaborate across product, SRE, and field engineering.
• Own features end to end.
• Debug production issues and improve service reliability.
• Uphold engineering standards.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Flask

PostgreSQL

React

TypeScript

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

gRPC

Proto

Job description

Parallel Domain is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own delivery across the stack, from API design to production. You’ll build and ship features for Python backends, REST/gRPC APIs, relational databases, and React frontends while taking ownership of reliability and quality.

Expect collaboration with product, SRE, and field engineering, plus a focus on observability, testing standards, and scalable data pipelines. This role is based in Canada with a strong emphasis on end-to-end ownership.