Lead Backend Engineer, Behavioural Team (Remote)

Role overview Lead the design and delivery of backend services that turn customer activity into timely, eligible actions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role spanning architecture, implementation, production operations, and guidance for engineers building high-volume, event-driven systems.

Responsibilities - Define service boundaries and architecture for detecting behavioral patterns and producing trigger events. - Build and review systems that correlate events over time, maintain short-lived context, and evaluate eligibility. - Develop reusable rule-based or declarative patterns for adding and extending triggers. - Translate product goals into technical plans, milestones, and incremental delivery with partner teams. - Mentor engineers, resolve complex technical issues, and represent the team in architecture discussions. - Improve reliability and operational insight through monitoring, tracing, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.

Requirements - At least seven years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend or platform systems. - Significant experience with distributed, event-driven, or high-scale services and asynchronous processing. - Strong architectural judgment for stateful systems, near-real-time decisioning, reliability, and production operations. - Hands-on technical leadership, including design reviews, mentoring, and leading complex initiatives. - Understanding of event-processing concerns such as retries, duplicates, ordering, late data, idempotency, backfills, and consistency. - Ability to turn ambiguous goals into practical designs and communicate tradeoffs across teams.

Nice to have - Experience with event streams, behavioral analytics, pub/sub, workflow systems, rule engines, or decisioning engines. - Cloud backend experience, especially on Google Cloud Platform.

Benefits and work setup - Remote role; the listing gives a base pay range of CAD $147,300–$192,000 per year, with possible bonus and medical, financial, or other benefits.