Software Engineer - Reliability

Flinks; Montreal; On-site; CAD 35,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial innovation is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance their data systems and tools. The ideal candidate has strong programming skills, a knack for problem-solving, and experience with distributed systems. This position provides a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and contribute to innovative projects within a proactive engineering team.

Qualifications

• Proficient in a modern programming language, preferably Golang.
• Experience in developing and maintaining distributed systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Research, develop, and maintain tools for data access and retrieval.
• Collaborate with teams to improve service performance and availability.
• Investigate and resolve complex performance issues.

Skills

Problem-solving

Debugging

Networking

Web technologies

Kubernetes

Job description

Flinks drives and empowers financial innovation by pushing the limits of what's possible

As one of the trailblazers and advocates for open finance in Canada, Flinks has rapidly grown from its founding in 2016 to become a leader in financial data aggregation, data enrichment, and open banking.

Trusted by millions of individuals accessing financial services at world-class companies and serving innovators in lending, fintech, digital banking, asset management and insurance, Flinks is continually setting new benchmarks for the future of financial innovation. We're dedicated to continuing to provide our clients with the tools they need to stay ahead of the competition and drive innovation forward. That's where you come in.

About Flinks

Flinks drives and empowers financial innovation by pushing the limits of what's possible

As one of the trailblazers and advocates for open finance in Canada, Flinks has rapidly grown from its founding in 2016 to become a leader in financial data aggregation, data enrichment, and open banking.

Trusted by millions of individuals accessing financial services at world-class companies and serving innovators in lending, fintech, digital banking, asset management and insurance, Flinks is continually setting new benchmarks for the future of financial innovation. We're dedicated to continuing to provide our clients with the tools they need to stay ahead of the competition and drive innovation forward. That's where you come in.

About the Team

Our Platform & Reliability crew at Flinks brings together DevOps Engineers, SREs, and Support Engineers to create a proactive environment where incidents are resolved before customers see them and engineers spend their time building product, not fighting fires—supported by emerging AI-assisted automation that streamlines intake, triage, response, and continuous testing.

What You'll Be Doing

Research, develop and maintain tools and techniques that allow us to access and retrieve data

• Perform technical assessments and investigations that lead to the improvement of our services
• Collaborate with other teams and developers on the implementation of our remediation tools
• Work within our production systems ensuring optimal performance, availability and scalability
• Conduct technical assessments & post-mortems, driving continuous improvements across production systems
• Investigate and resolve complex memory/CPU issues—profiling, leak detection, garbage-collection tuning, performance hotspots
• Contribute to innovative projects and participate in the creation of new technologies
• Implement creative solutions to ensure continuity of our delivery
• Mentor and help other developers improve on code quality, debugging, reverse-engineering and tinkerer mindset
  

Who you are

• Strong knowledge of one modern programming language, preferably Golang (C# experience is a plus)
• Experience developing and maintaining distributed systems at scale
• Hacker mindset, finding solutions without having a clear path
• Proven autonomy at troubleshooting networking stacks
• Deep understanding of web technologies, HTTP/IP protocols, reverse-engineering JavaScript defenses and proxy rotation
• Understanding of Kubernetes
• Natural curiosity with a willingness to learn new technologies
• Knack for debugging and investigating difficult issues
• Building or mitigating anti-bot systems in production

Great to haves

• Browser extension development experience
• Hands-on experience experimenting with large language models (LLMs) and integrating generative AI into workflows

The Interview Process

• Head of HR
• Tech Challenge
• Reliability Engineer
• Director of Infrastructure

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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