Senior Backend Developer

Full job description
Position: Sr. Backend Engineer - Microservices

Location: Toronto, ON
Type: Fulltime / Contract

We are looking for a Backend Engineer with experience in building highly scalable

solutions based on microservice architecture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will

be working with a highly skilled cross functional team to enhance our core banking

platform.

Mandatory skills

· Python expertise

· System design experience

· SQL Experience

· Any messagebroker experience

Responsibilities and Duties

● Design and deliver high quality features and enhancements.

● Own the end-to-end delivery of large features within your team that could span 3+

months.

● Create technical design specifications in collaboration with other members of the

engineering team.

● Provide estimates and actively participate in the sprint planning process.

● Produce highly secure solutions.

● Tune the performance of our distributed system to ensure they operate within our

SLAs.

● Peer review other engineers’ code.

● Mentor other engineers to create good technical solutions to problems and ship

code quickly to our customers.

Qualifications and Skills

● Experience on system design, ability to articulate a good solution and a system

that will scale and respond well to system failures and unexpected issues with

downstream dependencies.

● Experience with cloud computing and container-based distributed systems

(Docker).

● Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL) and high

proficiency with SQL.

● Understanding of higher-level RDBMS concepts (locking and transaction model,

isolation levels, deadlocks, etc.).

● Significant experience with at least one dynamically typed, object-oriented

programming. language (preference for Python).

● Great understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.

● Hands-on experience in using message brokers such as RabbitMQ.

● Deep understanding of restful API development.

● Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced customer centric environment.

● 5+ years of experience in software development.

● Excellent communication and organization skills.

● Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub.

● Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.

● Familiar with nix like environments.

● Build and integration experience with Payroll Providers and Time & Attendance

platforms is highly desirable.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: From $110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
Schedule:

8 hour shift
Day shift
Monday to Friday
Experience:

Messagebroker: 10 years (required)
Python: 10 years (required)
System Design: 10 years (required)
SQL: 10 years (required)