Software Engineer, Backend

Basetwo AI; Calgary; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in AI-driven manufacturing solutions is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to enhance their platform. This role involves designing APIs, maintaining core features, and collaborating with product and design teams. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in backend development, API design, and a passion for solving user problems in a dynamic startup environment.

Benefits

Extended Healthcare Plan (Medical, Disability, Dental & Vision)

Work From Home - Flexible hours

Stock Option Plan

Group Life - AD&D - Critical Illness Insurance

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience as a backend engineering specialist or software engineering generalist.
• Strong foundation in API design and distributed systems.
• Experience with SQL and database design using PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data models, services, and APIs for the Basetwo platform.
• Take full ownership of building and maintaining core features.
• Work at all levels of the stack with a focus on backend.

Skills

API design

Distributed systems

Service-oriented architectures

Backend implementation

SQL

Database design

Containerization technologies

Python

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

We're on a mission to make manufacturing more resilient.

Basetwo provides manufacturing engineers with a low code AI platform that helps them troubleshoot and optimize their production processes to increase efficiency and reduce waste. Manufacturing engineers can use the Basetwo platform to:

• improve their understanding of their plant
• make better decisions in real-time
• build robust data transformation pipelines
• ingest and connect siloed databases
  
  
  

The Role

As a Backend Software Engineer, you will be working on the Basetwo platform. You will maintain a close working relationship with our product, data and design teams to bring about the best-in-class experience for our users and then implement them in a modular, scalable manner.

What You'll Do

• Design and build data models, services, and APIs to power the Basetwo platform - all while maintaining the right balance between developer experience, scaling, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability
• Take full ownership of building, shipping, and maintaining core Basetwo features end to end, for maximum customer and business impact
• Work at all levels of the stack with a concentration on the backend
• Build tools to automate processes and increase productivity for your team
• Advocate and evangelize best practices to other engineers
  
  
  

What You'll Need

• You care about the user, strive to understand their needs, and build tools to solve their problems
• We're a startup and project needs can change quickly. You're someone that loves to jump into a new problem, learn what's needed, and solve it
• You're a backend engineering specialist or software engineering generalist with 3+ years of industry experience with strong communication skills
• Have a strong foundation in API design, distributed systems, service oriented architectures, and backend implementation
• Production experience with SQL and database design using PostgreSQL or similar
• Have experience with containerization technologies (Ex: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, etc.)
• You have a strong background in computer science fundamentals with a degree in CS or a related field
• Strong sense of ownership and focus on long-term usability and extensibility
  
  
  

Bonus:

• Expertise working with AWS
• Proficient in Python
• Have a startup mentality: team player, self-motivated, high-integrity, pragmatic, resourceful, can execute under pressure
  
  
  

Benefits

• Extended Healthcare Plan (Medical, Disability, Dental & Vision)
• Work From Home - Flexible hours
• Stock Option Plan
• Group Life - AD&D - Critical Illness Insurance