Software Engineer, Backend (CA)

Butter Payments; Montreal; Remote; CAD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing fintech company is seeking a Software Engineer, Backend to leverage data engineering and software development expertise to create applications that drive business solutions. This role involves building backend applications, collaborating with teams, and ensuring data management. Applicants should have substantial experience with Python, SQL, and cloud services. Remote work is an option.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience between data engineering and software engineering roles.
• Experience with cloud-based systems such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Experience writing and operating software in production.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, communication, and debugging skills.
• Ability to respond iteratively to changes in business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build backend applications that interact with various APIs and data sources.
• Develop client-facing APIs while standardizing data passed to them.
• Orchestrate asynchronous workflows using technologies like Temporal.
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams.
• Develop data models to clean messy outside data.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Backend software development

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Debugging skills

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CockroachDB

Snowflake

Kafka

DataDog

Job description

Software Engineer, Backend (Remote, Canada)

About Butter Payments

At Butter Payments, we’re on a mission to eliminate involuntary churn and make recurring payments seamless. Every year, billions of dollars are lost due to failed payments. Butter leverages machine learning, deep financial data partnerships, and behavioral insights to ensure the right payments go through at the right time—without friction. We're backed by world-class investors like Atomic & Norwest Venture Partners, and we're growing fast.

Summary:

In this role you’ll use your unique combination of data engineering and backend software development expertise to solve business problems. As part of the Engineering team, you’ll build data heavy applications that directly provide value to our customers, internal and external.

Who We’re Looking For:

We’re looking for someone who understands data engineering and can combine that knowledge with software engineering experience to build systems where producing and managing data is the first-class concern.

What You’ll Do:

• Build backend applications that interact with a variety of disparate APIs and data sources.
• Develop and grow client facing APIs that are flexible but standardize the data passed to them in a clean and consistent way.
• Orchestrate asynchronous workflows using technologies such as Temporal.
• Collaborate with data engineering, machine learning, and analytics teams to ensure that the data our applications are producing scales to meet needs across the company.
• Build data models into our applications that transpose the messy data of the outside world into clean data our applications can operate on.
• Develop and operate software in production.

What You Have:

• 5+ years of professional experience between data engineering and software engineering roles
• You’ve worked with Python and SQL in a previous role
• You’ve worked with cloud based systems such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
• You have experience writing and operating software in production
• Strong analytical, problem solving, communication, and debugging skills
• Can respond iteratively and rapidly to changes in business requirements

Nice To Have:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• You have API design experience
• Experience working in high-growth fintech or payments startups
• Experience building systems with a State Machine architecture
• Bonus points for Temporal or AWS Step Functions experience

Engineering Philosophies:

• Data outlives code
• Technology is strategic for the business
• Simplicity over complexity
• Embrace hard conversations

Our Tech Stack:

AWS, Python, Kubernetes (EKS), Github Actions, Terraform, CockroachDB, Snowflake, Kafka, DataDog

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you’re excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply.

Butter Payments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Butter considers all qualified applicants in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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