Senior Software Engineer - Backend

GuruLink; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-growth SaaS company in Vancouver seeks a Senior Backend Engineer. This role involves building scalable data pipelines, working with microservices, and collaborating in a small, agile team. The position emphasizes product vision shaped by user feedback and offers significant career growth opportunities.

Benefits

Equity

Medical/Dental Benefits

Flex Vacation Policy

Choice of Apple Hardware

Qualifications

• Expert-level software development skills in a modern, type-safe language.
• Experience with microservices architecture and building scalable systems.
• Familiarity with a Cloud Platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Building and optimizing scalable data pipelines.
• Integrating with third-party services and APIs.
• Collaborating with designers and front-end developers on user experiences.

Skills

Software development

Microservices

APIs

REST-ful services

Cloud Platforms

Leadership

Collaboration with DevOps

Job description

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia

Our client is a Vancouver-based high-growth, well-funded SaaS company dedicated to enhancing software development workflows. Their platform helps development teams quickly find answers to their application-related questions, significantly reducing time spent in meetings and on interruptions, and allowing them to focus more on coding.

With an experienced founding team (second-time founders), this is a small, agile team with large ambitions and the capacity and capability to deliver. This role will offer a unique opportunity to shape their product vision and roadmap through customer and user feedback.

They are searching for a Senior Backend Engineer to join their growing team. You will be:
-Building and optimizing scalable data pipelines that ingest large amounts of data (structured and unstructured);
-Build integrations with third-party services and APIs;
-Work closely with designers and front-end developers to create and implement end-to-end user experiences
-Collab with DevOps, you will own the security and resilience of the systems you build

This is a senior engineer role for someone who has a proven track record of building and shipping products. You will have an understanding of what to avoid and canny know-how of what to automate.

Special Perks:

Equity
Medical/Dental Benefits
Flex Vacation Policy
Choice of Apple Hardware

Must Have Skills:

To be successful in this role, you must:
-Expert-level software development skills in a modern, type-safe language
-Experience with microservices architecture
-Proven experience building well-tested, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems.
-Experience working with APIs and REST-ful services.
-Familiarity with a Cloud Platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
-Demonstrated leadership of fellow team members in the delivery of a project.
-Experience collaborating with DevOps teams.

Please note that due to the small team environment and the growth being experienced by the business, this is an on-site role in Vancouver, BC.