Software Engineer: Backend Systems

Aloe; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Benefits

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Aloe is seeking a Backend Systems Engineer to design and implement scalable infrastructure from early-stage to production. You will join a multidisciplinary team spanning engineering, UX, cognitive science, design, and operations to deliver significant UI changes.

We value curiosity, practical problem solving, and continuous learning, with compensation at the high end of the market and ongoing career growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Design and implement scalable backend systems from prototype to production.
• Strong experience with databases, optimization and management.
• Experience building high-performance, distributed systems.
• Familiarity with cloud infra and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Proven scaling from small to large user bases.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and scale backend infrastructure from early-stage to production.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful UI changes.
• Ensure performance, reliability, and security of systems.

Skills

Backend design

Database design

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Docker

System monitoring

Security practices

Load balancing

Team collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

We are looking for a Backend Systems Engineer to join our growing team. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and scaling our infrastructure from early-stage to production-scale deployment. You will work in a close-knit team that spans engineering, UX, cognitive science, design, and operations, in our shared mission to invent, implement, and deliver the most significant user interface changes in a generation.

Come close the imagination gap on what AGI is for. Our team has unmatched ambition and clarity of purpose. We seek to be the best in the world: on capability, on UX, and on maximizing wellbeing for everyone on the planet.

Culture

We welcome teammates who want to do their life’s best work for the next 10 years. We are exceptional at what we do, and see ourselves as craftspeople who enjoy working in the fellowship of other intrinsically motivated people. We strive to be Level 5 humans , co-creating a deliberately developmental atmosphere.

What you can expect working here to be like:

• Speed: Our ambition will only be reached if we are laser focused on the essential and move purposefully. You will consistently find yourself not knowing how to proceed and needing to figure out how to take next steps despite that.
• Opportunity: We are at an inflection point for our species and are bending the world to toward one we want to live in – where everyone is safe and has access to the opportunities to express their innate creativity and pursue their deepest meaning.
• Optimism: We are high fun, ultimately high agency.
• Comfort with being uncomfortable: You should expect to always be in your “developmental zone,” which necessitates feeling inadequate and uncomfortable. Personal development is a core practice for continually leveling-up as technologist and as a human. Everyone is a senior person.
• Support: We are all in this together, and here to help each other succeed. We’ve got empathy for each other because we’re all experiencing the discomfort of growth together. We’ll only win as team, so the only valid use of ego here is to create with it.
• Collaboration: We are building the rocketship as we’re flying it. We’re all responsible for finding ways to make ourselves and our team more effective. We’re run by ideas, not hierarchy.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to see your research directly impact people’s lives at scale.
• The chance to do the best work of your life surrounded by some of the most capable humans on the planet.
• Compensation at the high end of the market for the role, including benefits. Compensation will scale up with the company’s stage.
• Unceasing opportunities for career growth.

Qualifications

• Design and implement scalable backend systems that grow from prototype to production scale
• Strong experience in database design, optimization, and management
• Expertise in building and maintaining high-performance, distributed systems
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Proven track record of scaling systems from prototype to production (10+ to 100k+ users)
• Strong knowledge of system monitoring, logging, and observability
• Experience with load balancing, caching strategies, and performance optimization
• Proficiency in implementing security best practices and data protection
• Strong debugging skills for complex system issues
• Experience working in a professional team of software engineers, and the tools and best practices for code, collaboration, and deployment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail; pixel level perfection is core to what we do.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills working remotely.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• A passion for learning and adapting to new technologies.
• Desire to stay informed about emerging trends and technologies, continuously enhancing your skills and the team's capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases at scale
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and automation tools
• Background in site reliability engineering or DevOps
• Experience with real-time systems and websocket implementations
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Knowledge of cost optimization for cloud resources
• Experience with microservices architecture and API design
• Track record of incident response and system reliability improvements