Software Engineer, Back-End - Mail (Canada)

Skillhub Solutions Inc.; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Disability & life insurance

RRSP matching

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Holidays

Flexible sick time

Stipends

Professional development budget

Job summary

Superhuman is hiring a back-end engineer for its Mail team. The role focuses on building and operating production services for AI-driven workflows with real-time infrastructure, calendar syncing, and APIs used across desktop, web, and mobile.

The tech stack includes Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, and AWS. The ideal candidate will bring at least five years of back-end experience, strong fundamentals in algorithms and system design, and familiarity with cloud platforms and real-time architectures.

Qualifications

• Back-end development experience with strong fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Experience building and debugging production systems at scale.
• Proficiency with AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with AI-powered systems is a plus.
• Experience with real-time, event-driven architectures or high-throughput API design is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate production services for AI agent orchestration and real-time data pipelines.
• Design platform services including schedulers, session history, and APIs.
• Develop infrastructure as code to support reliable operations.
• Collaborate with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End engineers on AI-powered features.
• Contribute to engineering practices for documentation, testing, and reliability.

Skills

Back-end development

Algorithms

Data structures

System design

Real-time systems

High-throughput APIs

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Go

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

Software Engineer, Back-End - Mail (Canada)

Superhuman

Remote - Canada Full-time CA$150,000 - CA$192,000 / year

Location: Remote in Canada. A hybrid setup is also available in Vancouver.

Employment type: Full-time

Compensation: Estimated base salary of $150,000-$192,000, plus equity.

About the opportunity

Superhuman is hiring a back-end engineer for its Mail team. The team builds systems for calendar, scheduling, and AI-driven workflows, including real-time infrastructure, calendar syncing, notification systems, and APIs used across desktop, web, and mobile. The role uses Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate production services for AI agent orchestration, connector integrations, and real-time data pipelines.
• Design platform services including task schedulers, session and conversation history, client-server protocols, and APIs.
• Build and evolve highly available infrastructure as code.
• Collaborate with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End engineers to deliver AI-powered features.
• Contribute to engineering practices for documentation, testing, and reliability.

Qualifications

• At least five years of back-end development experience, with strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design.
• Experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale.
• Experience with AWS or another cloud platform.
• Familiarity with AI-powered systems; experience building back-end services for AI products is an asset.
• Fluency with AI coding tools and a perspective on their use in software development.
• Experience with real-time systems, event-driven architectures, or high-throughput API design is an asset.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and infrastructure as code.

Benefits include health coverage, disability and life insurance, RRSP matching, paid parental leave, paid time off and holidays, flexible sick time, stipends, and a professional development budget.