Senior Platform Backend Developer

Doist; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 115,400 - 161,600; Full time

Job summary

Doist in Vancouver, BC, is seeking a Senior DevOps Developer to support the development organization in delivering reliable, efficient, and secure software.

You will work in the Backend Platform team using Go, Scala, and PHP, with Kafka and AWS, building tools and services for product teams and modernizing the platform. This role involves mentoring, on-call work, and shaping best practices across the department.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role with a track record of substantial contributions to high‑impact projects.
• Experience in backend development and DevOps, ideally creating tools and services for other developers.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers.
• Experience writing clean, scalable code and understanding SaaS software development practices; ideally on a SaaS product.
• Experience using infrastructure‑as‑code tools to build and run cloud infrastructure.
• Optional: Experience operating, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure; knowledge of Linux systems administration including troubleshooting system‑level issues, networking (L3‑L7), and basic monitoring.
• Strong collaboration and teamwork, prioritizing group needs over individual.
• Creativity and innovation, seeking better ways, generating imaginative ideas, products, and solutions.
• Problem solving with organized approach, looking beyond obvious root causes, proposing multiple solutions.
• Resilience and tolerance for change, advancing work and projects effectively.

Responsibilities

• Design and build software tools, libraries, automation, services, and glue scripts.
• Ensure reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud‑based platform.
• Participate in a flexible on‑call rotation.
• Lead by owning project milestones, epics or features.
• Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department.
• Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks.
• Design and build our infrastructure platform.
• Identify and implement new platform features.
• Research and evaluate new technologies.
• Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features.
• Operate our developer experience and production application environments.
• Diagnose and repair our distributed systems.
• Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations.
• Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business‑as‑usual work.
• Enable development teams by providing executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform.
• Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with others across the organization to solve problems and build better processes, systems, and software.
• Communicate by mentoring, writing documentation, participating in meetings, and sharing work at demos.

Skills

Backend development

DevOps

Mentoring

Clean code

Infrastructure as code

Cloud infrastructure

Linux admin

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Go

Scala

PHP

Kafka

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

ROLE DESCRIPTION

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Developer who can help support the development organization to deliver value to customers in a reliable, efficient, and safe manner. You’ll be working in a focused team that owns one or more pieces of the production application environment and the developer experience, delivering in service of quarterly goals on the team.

ABOUT THE TEAM

This role is within our Backend Platform team. The team primarily uses Go, Scala, and PHP and has expertise in technologies such as Kafka, various AWS services, and some infrastructure‑as‑code tools. Your primary focus will be on developing services and tools for our product development teams as well as modernizing our existing platform. Based out of British Columbia, you will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development, DevOps.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design and build software tools, libraries, automation, services, and glue scripts.
• Ensure reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud‑based platform.
• Participate in a flexible on‑call rotation.
• Lead by owning project milestones, epics or features.
• Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department.
• Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks.
• Design and build our infrastructure platform.
• Identify and implement new platform features.
• Research and evaluate new technologies.
• Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features.
• Operate our developer experience and production application environments.
• Diagnose and repair our distributed systems.
• Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations.
• Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business‑as‑usual work.
• Enable development teams by providing executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform.
• Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with others across the organization to solve problems and build better processes, systems, and software.
• Communicate by mentoring, writing documentation, participating in meetings, and sharing work at demos.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and at least 5 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role with a track record of substantial contributions to high‑impact projects.
• Experience in backend development and DevOps, ideally creating tools and services for other developers.
• Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers.
• Experience writing clean, scalable code and understanding SaaS software development practices; ideally on a SaaS product.
• Experience using infrastructure‑as‑code tools to build and run cloud infrastructure.
• Optional: Experience operating, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure; knowledge of Linux systems administration including troubleshooting system‑level issues, networking (L3‑L7), and basic monitoring.
• Strong collaboration and teamwork, prioritizing group needs over individual.
• Creativity and innovation, seeking better ways, generating imaginative ideas, products, and solutions.
• Problem solving with organized approach, looking beyond obvious root causes, proposing multiple solutions.
• Resilience and tolerance for change, advancing work and projects effectively.

WHO YOU ARE

• Solution seeker – focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward without waiting to be asked.
• Lifelong learner – growth mindset, experiments, shares findings, moves on from what doesn’t work.
• Resilient adapter – thoughtful, calm approach, finds new opportunities amid change.
• Intentional collaborator – builds positive relationships, brings people together to foster new opportunities.
• Critical challenger – asks difficult questions to reach the best result.
• Active communicator – listens actively, communicates ideas clearly, inclusively, proactively.
• Integrated thinker – understands how team’s work drives broader organizational goals.
• Accountable owner – takes pride in responsibility, ultimate accountability.
• Bar‑raiser – helps team grow and succeed, goes beyond expectations.

PAY RANGE

Canada: $115,400 — $161,600 CAD.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.