Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Lakehouse Infra)

Role overview Lead backend and infrastructure work for a lakehouse platform that provides dependable offline data access for machine learning, product, and financial engineering workloads. This senior role combines technical delivery and operational ownership with team guidance, planning, and collaboration across product and engineering stakeholders.

Responsibilities - Own quarterly team goals and guide engineers through complex, open-ended delivery work. - Partner with product, design, analytics, and other stakeholders to shape solutions, explain technical constraints, and weigh risks and trade-offs. - Identify and lead resolution of technical, process, project, or business issues. - Maintain the availability of team systems by defining and monitoring service metrics and participating in operational and on-call work. - Set and improve code review and design practices, and share engineering guidance through writing or technical talks. - Support teammates’ growth with feedback, guidance, and a strong example of technical ownership.

Requirements - At least four years designing, building, and launching backend systems at scale, using languages such as Python or Kotlin. - Experience developing highly available distributed systems, with technologies such as AWS, MySQL, or Kubernetes. - Ability to define a technical plan for significant features or system components and deliver simple, extensible designs with clear, maintainable code. - Experience making substantial changes in large codebases safely, supported by effective tools and engineering practices. - Strong written and verbal communication for working with a distributed engineering team. - Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have - Experience scaling data infrastructure such as Iceberg, Flink, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, or Terraform.

Benefits and work setup Remote role open to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan. The listed annual base pay range is CAD $153,000–$213,000. Total compensation may include equity, spending stipends, and benefits; listed benefits include fully subsidized medical premiums for employees and dependents, dental and vision coverage, flexible time off, holidays, and an employee stock purchase plan.