Senior Backend Engineer, Product Data Platform

Brex; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 263,086 - 328,857; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to four weeks fully remote work per year

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in Vancouver seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join their Product Data Platform team. This role involves optimizing complex backend systems, driving performance improvements, and implementing caching strategies for high-scale applications. Candidates should have over 7 years of experience in backend engineering and strong database optimization skills. The expected salary range for this position is $192,000 - $240,000 plus equity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
• Experience building platforms or infrastructure used by real customers.
• Deep hands-on experience with relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and optimize complex query plans and execution paths.
• Drive schema and access-pattern improvements.
• Debug and remediate latency issues under load.
• Design and operate distributed systems.
• Evaluate existing architectures for scaling risks.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Database optimization

Communication skills

Collaboration

Tools

Postgres

Aurora

Kotlin

Java

Job description

A leading financial technology company in Vancouver seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join their Product Data Platform team. This role involves optimizing complex backend systems, driving performance improvements, and implementing caching strategies for high-scale applications. Candidates should have over 7 years of experience in backend engineering and strong database optimization skills. The expected salary range for this position is $192,000 - $240,000 plus equity.