Senior Backend Engineer — Scale Enterprise Workflows

Forma.ai; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock ownership plan

Healthcare coverage

$750 yearly training stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Forma.ai is seeking Senior Backend Engineers to join our application teams in an environment focused on enterprise-grade backend systems. You’ll design, build, and scale backend services that power complex product workflows, work with data models that handle large, relationship-heavy datasets, and collaborate with Product to translate requirements into scalable designs.

The role emphasizes ownership, data integrity, and robust testing in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and building backend systems in production environments.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, C#, or similar.
• Strong foundation in SQL, relational schema design, and data modeling.
• Experience with hierarchical, graph-like, relationship-heavy, or workflow-driven data structures.
• Ability to identify technical risks, reason through tradeoffs, and propose practical improvements.
• Experience improving scalability, reliability, observability, or maintainability in production systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort collaborating across Engineering, Product, and Analytics while remaining hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services that power complex product workflows.
• Contribute to data models for hierarchical, relationship-heavy, and enterprise-scale datasets.
• Make technical decisions that balance maintainability, performance, and operational simplicity.
• Improve testing, observability, and production reliability within the services you work on.
• Partner with Product to translate business requirements into clean, scalable backend designs.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
• Support other engineers through pairing, reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Use AI tooling to improve delivery speed while maintaining strong engineering standards.

Skills

Backend design

Production systems

Backend languages

SQL/Data modeling

Data structures

Risk assessment

Scalability/Observability

Communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Forma.ai is seeking Senior Backend Engineers to join our application teams in an environment focused on enterprise-grade backend systems. You’ll design, build, and scale backend services that power complex product workflows, work with data models that handle large, relationship-heavy datasets, and collaborate with Product to translate requirements into scalable designs.

The role emphasizes ownership, data integrity, and robust testing in a fast-paced setting.