Senior Backend Engineer (Python/Django) — Cloud & APIs

AspiringIT; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspiring IT Inc. in Ontario, Canada, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable software and cloud-based systems.

You will contribute to backend apps, APIs, and data-intensive platforms, ensuring performance, reliability, and integration with cloud services. The role emphasizes collaborating with stakeholders, guiding code quality, and participating in reviews to advance engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience developing backend applications and APIs using Django and GraphQL.
• Strong experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL and BigQuery.
• Experience designing and developing cloud-based applications (GCP or Azure).
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Airflow, or Dataflow is an asset.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze business and user requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Research, design, develop, integrate, test, and maintain scalable software applications and cloud-based systems.
• Design logical and physical specifications, software components, data models, and system architectures.
• Develop backend applications, services, APIs, and data-processing solutions.
• Design and integrate software solutions with databases, cloud platforms, APIs, and enterprise systems.
• Develop and maintain reliable data-processing workflows supporting business applications.
• Evaluate system architecture and improve performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Assess, test, troubleshoot, document, upgrade, and maintain applications and software environments.
• Develop automated unit and integration testing to maintain software quality and reliability.
• Support CI/CD, containerized applications, and cloud deployments.
• Research and evaluate technologies and recommend improvements to software architecture.

Skills

Python

Backend development

API design

Cloud architectures

Software engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology

Tools

Django

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Airflow

Dataflow

Job description

Aspiring IT Inc. in Ontario, Canada, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable software and cloud-based systems.

You will contribute to backend apps, APIs, and data-intensive platforms, ensuring performance, reliability, and integration with cloud services. The role emphasizes collaborating with stakeholders, guiding code quality, and participating in reviews to advance engineering practices.