software engineer

VoPay International Inc; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in Vancouver is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. This role focuses on ensuring the performance, scalability, and security of production systems. Candidates should have over 4 years of experience, strong programming skills, and knowledge of AWS. The position offers full-time employment with competitive salary and opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a SRE, Software Engineering, or Platform Engineering role.
• Strong programming skills in at least one server-side language (Python, Java, Go, PHP).
• Demonstrated experience with scalability, performance tuning, and architectural design.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering leadership to design platform improvements.
• Write high-quality code to improve system stability and efficiency.
• Proactively investigate performance bottlenecks.
• Manage and improve monitoring, alerting, and logging systems.

Skills

Strong programming skills in server-side language

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Experience with scalability and performance tuning

Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions)

Job description

Title:> Senior Backend Engineer (Reliability & Performance)

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Employment Type: Full‑time

Salary: $100,000 to $120,000 per year

Job Overview

The Senior Backend Engineer plays a pivotal role in ensuring the availability, scalability, and security of our production environment. This hands‑on engineer combines software development and operational responsibilities, writing code and implementing architectural improvements that directly enhance performance, reliability, and security. The role also involves managing monitoring and alerting systems, contributing to AWS infrastructure management, and strengthening platform security and scalability.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering leadership to design and implement platform improvements that support long‑term growth.
• Write high‑quality code to improve system stability and efficiency.
• Lead initiatives to improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of our platform.
• Proactively investigate and track down root causes of performance bottlenecks before they impact customers.
• Conduct load and stress testing to validate scalability and identify weak points.
• Deliver enhancements, bug fixes, and stability‑focused features directly in the platform codebase.
• Manage and improve monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure early detection of anomalies.
• Define and maintain key KPIs, SLIs, and SLOs for platform health and user experience.
• Partner with L3 support to investigate and resolve complex production issues.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (development, security, product) to diagnose and address root causes of platform incidents.
• Lead post‑incident reviews and drive remediation strategies to prevent recurrence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of experience in a SRE, Software Engineering, or Platform Engineering role.
• Strong programming skills in at least one server‑side language (Python, Java, Go, PHP, etc.), with the ability to write production‑ready code.
• Demonstrated experience with scalability, performance tuning, and architectural design.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Experience with Datadog or similar monitoring and observability tools.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Awareness of and commitment to adhering to security best practices.

Additional Desirable Qualifications

• Experience working with performance‑tuning strategies in high‑volume transactional systems.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK) and managing cloud resources in AWS.
• Knowledge of serverless environments (Lambda, API Gateway, etc.) and related monitoring/debugging practices.
• Experience configuring CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, or similar) and deployment automation.
• Familiarity with security operations tasks, such as permissions reviews, least privilege enforcement, and security group audits.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or PCI DSS.

Minimum Experience

At least 4 years of relevant experience.

Additional Information

Vacancy: 1

Posted on November 3, 2025 by VoPay International Inc.