Senior Backend Engineer - Architect & Lead End-to-End Scale

Achievers; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 117,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

Life Insurance

Parental Leave Top-up

RRSP Matching

Flexible Vacation

Employee Assistance Program

Career Development

Employee Resource Groups

Regular events

Hybrid work in Liberty Village

Job summary

Achievers is seeking a backend-focused engineer to help shape the technical direction within our Platform Services team in Toronto. You will own major features end‑to‑end, influence architecture, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product and Design to deliver scalable solutions.

This back‑end focused role emphasizes autonomy, growth, and excellence in code quality, reliability, and performance in a fast‑growing company with a strong culture of learning and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of professional experience with backend or full‑stack projects.
• Hands-on system design experience on multi‑component projects.
• Strong understanding of architecture, scalability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Drive product impact at global scale by leading projects.
• Shape architecture and mentor team members.
• Lead end‑to‑end features from design to deployment.
• Champion best practices and drive technical excellence.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to align on priorities.

Skills

5-7+ years experience

Backend/Full-stack leadership

System design

Communication

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Docker

Drone

Google PubSub

React/Redux

GraphQL

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Achievers is seeking a backend-focused engineer to help shape the technical direction within our Platform Services team in Toronto. You will own major features end‑to‑end, influence architecture, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product and Design to deliver scalable solutions.

This back‑end focused role emphasizes autonomy, growth, and excellence in code quality, reliability, and performance in a fast‑growing company with a strong culture of learning and collaboration.