Senior Backend Engineer — FinTech for Scale & Impact

Float; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology company in Canada is seeking developers to join their Financial Products team focused on backend systems managing financial workflows. Candidates should have experience in building complex backend systems, a strong understanding of data flow, and a proactive ownership approach to systems in production. The role offers competitive compensation, equity options, and a hybrid work model, allowing significant impact in a high-growth environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Equity options

Catered team lunches

Dog-friendly office

Qualifications

• Experience building backend systems beyond basic CRUD patterns.
• Solid database fundamentals including transactional integrity and performance.
• Comfort with reasoning about data flow and distributed system trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain backend systems that support money movement.
• Build and evolve distributed systems including retries and failure handling.
• Anticipate edge cases and scale challenges before they become production issues.

Skills

Building backend systems

Data flow reasoning

Transactional integrity

Ownership mindset

Adaptability

Job description

A financial technology company in Canada is seeking developers to join their Financial Products team focused on backend systems managing financial workflows. Candidates should have experience in building complex backend systems, a strong understanding of data flow, and a proactive ownership approach to systems in production. The role offers competitive compensation, equity options, and a hybrid work model, allowing significant impact in a high-growth environment.