Senior Distributed Systems Engineer, Orchestration & AI

Movable Ink; Toronto (OH); Remote; USD 104,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Movable Ink is expanding its Orchestration team to build the next-generation AI decisioning layer coordinating messages across channels. We seek a Lead Engineer to set technical direction, design and implement the system from prototype to production, and mentor engineers.

This deeply technical role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Orchestration team. The role emphasizes highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, real-time decisioning, and strong leadership.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering with distributed systems focus.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale fault-tolerant, highly concurrent systems.
• Backend services experience in a modern cloud environment (GCP) with Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for the orchestration platform from prototype to production.
• Build a scalable, event-driven distributed system for real-time messaging decisions.
• Own components end-to-end: architecture, deployment, monitoring, incident response.
• Drive architectural decisions and maintain high standards for design, code quality, testing, and ops.
• Collaborate with Product, ML, Data Platform, and adjacent teams to translate requirements into designs.
• Drive observability and on-call practices to ensure reliable operations.
• Mentor engineers and model strong engineering practices.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Python

Elixir

Problem solving

System leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Kubernetes

gRPC

Kafka

Docker

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Movable Ink is expanding its Orchestration team to build the next-generation AI decisioning layer coordinating messages across channels. We seek a Lead Engineer to set technical direction, design and implement the system from prototype to production, and mentor engineers.

This deeply technical role reports to the Engineering Manager of the Orchestration team. The role emphasizes highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, real-time decisioning, and strong leadership.