Senior Platform Engineer (Python)

Acquird.io; Toronto; Remote; CAD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading B2B SaaS company is seeking a Senior/Staff/Lead Platform Engineer to join its remote-friendly team in Toronto. This role focuses on backend development, particularly in designing APIs and optimizing application performance. Candidates should have extensive experience in B2B/B2C SaaS platforms, with a strong emphasis on Python and distributed systems.

Benefits

Equity/Options grants

Flexible remote work policies

Solid Health Insurance Plan

Coaching/mentoring for professional development

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing and maintaining API Services.
• Experience leading features for complex B2B/B2C SaaS Platforms.
• Experience building and architecting distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• New API Design for scalability and data performance.
• Work on complex integrations with ad tech platforms.
• Lead async task management and optimization using Celery.

Skills

Python

API Design

Async optimization

Microservices

Distributed systems

Education

6+ years of full stack experience in SaaS Platforms

Tools

Celery

Azure

Job description

A Few Notes:

• Profitable B2B SaaS company, teams are based out of North America

• Role is 95% remote in Toronto (we meet up 1x a month).

• Must be able to legally work in Canada (visa or sponsorship won't be provided)

• We're growing and we are looking to hire a BE Python Developer for a Platform (not applications) team

• Open on seniority from Senior to Staff level

About Us:

We're one of the top retail analytic platforms that help marketing teams/brands understand their retail data and run targeted media campaigns without writing code. We help our clients better understand their customers and improve their ROI on campaigns. One of our main customers is Home Depot.
Tech Stack: Python, Django, Celery, React, Typescript, Azure.

How We Work:

- Collaborative team! Lots of new interesting complex work is available

- We encourage exploration of new technologies - we're a modern tech company

- We build for the long term, already profitable and focused on quality

- 95% remote, we meet 1X a month in Toronto and 2X a year at a company retreat

About You:

We are looking for an outstanding Senior/Staff/Lead Platform Engineer who wants to play a core role in building our platform team. This role will be 100% back-end focused.

Example Responsibilities:

- New API Design:Working on making the platform more scalable and data performant.

- Complex Integrations work:Working with heavy hitters like Meta, Tik Tok, Snapchat on the ad tech side.

- Lead Async task management:We're using Celery, we'd like you to take this over and optimize how we do concurrency, distributed tasks, resource intensive jobs.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of full stack experience building enterprise-level B2B/B2C SaaS Platforms (ideally in Python)

• Design, implementation, and maintenance of API Services (incl. Microservices)

• Note: We're open to non Python Devs if they have great experience and are willing to make the switch over

• Led features for a complex B2B/B2C Saas Platform

• Async optimization experience, we use Celery

• Experience building and architecting distributed systems (deploying over Azure)

• Write test suites and deploy using our CI/CD pipeline

• Experience owning an application end-to-end and can understand/address infrastructure concerns

Target FT Salary Range:

• $130,000 - $180,000* base CDN a year, with Equity & Health Benefits

• *Comp range be higher for Staff level Devs

Benefits:

Meritocracy

- Leadership opportunities as we scale

- Equity/Options grants

Generous Time Off

- Flexible remote work policies

Platinum Benefits

- Solid Health Insurance Plan

Learn and Grow

- Coaching/mentoring for your professional development