Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable SaaS, Mentoring, Remote

CoLab Software; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing tech company in Canada is seeking a Senior Back End Developer to advocate for technology and mentor the team. This role demands expertise in Python, relational databases, and scalable API design, along with a passion for teamwork and continuous improvement. With hybrid work flexibility, the ideal candidate will contribute to impactful projects and drive best practices within the development team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional, hands-on development experience.
• Experience working on SaaS and large-scale distributed systems.
• Mentoring and advising junior developers.

Responsibilities

• Understand complex customer problems and build solutions.
• Collaborate on design and planning of work scopes.
• Develop, test, and ship user-facing features.
• Develop and maintain robust and scalable APIs.
• Participate in code reviews for quality delivery.

Skills

Proficient in Python and its libraries

Hands-on experience with relational databases

Experience writing robust automated tests

Git workflow experience

Experience with Monitoring/Observability tools

Experience integrating large language models via APIs

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

DynamoDB

OpenSearch

Cypress

Playwright

Git

DataDog

Job description

A growing tech company in Canada is seeking a Senior Back End Developer to advocate for technology and mentor the team. This role demands expertise in Python, relational databases, and scalable API design, along with a passion for teamwork and continuous improvement. With hybrid work flexibility, the ideal candidate will contribute to impactful projects and drive best practices within the development team.