Software Engineer, Backend

Basetwo AI; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech startup, Basetwo AI, is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to enhance their AI platform used by manufacturing engineers. This role involves working closely with product, data, and design teams to deliver scalable, optimal solutions, requiring strong backend skills and a user-oriented mindset. You’ll benefit from flexible working hours and a comprehensive healthcare plan.

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 in software engineering.
• Strong background in computer science fundamentals.
• Production experience using PostgreSQL or similar databases.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

API design

Distributed systems

Service-oriented architectures

Backend implementation

SQL

PostgreSQL

Containerization technologies

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

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