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Role overview A compensation intelligence platform is hiring a Senior or Staff Backend Engineer to join its core platform engineering group. The team builds the high-throughput distributed services that power pay-governance and pay-equity analysis for enterprise HR, compensation, and finance leaders, and the role carries end-to-end ownership from API design through production operations.
Responsibilities - Design, ship, and operate core distributed microservices written primarily in Go and Python. - Build real-time event streaming and data processing pipelines using Kafka. - Architect performant APIs across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC protocols. - Model schemas and tune query performance on Postgres with modern ORM tooling. - Provision and scale cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS using Terraform and GitHub Actions CI/CD. - Monitor reliability, latency, and operational health with Datadog and respond to production incidents.
Requirements - 7+ years building and operating backend systems in production at scale. - Deep proficiency in Go and Python, including concurrent and high-performance designs. - Strong Postgres and relational ORM fundamentals, including query optimization and migration strategy. - Hands-on experience designing and maintaining Kafka-based event-driven architectures. - Production API expertise across REST, GraphQL, and/or gRPC. - Operational mindset with observability tooling such as Datadog, distributed tracing, and metrics.
Nice to have - Experience proposing technical direction in written design docs and leading rigorous PR reviews. - Comfort owning a domain with light supervision and carrying the pager for what you ship.
Benefits and work setup - Remote-first within the US and Alberta, with a non-mandatory Calgary office available. - Targeted compensation of USD 180,000 to 210,000 or CAD 175,000 to 205,000, depending on experience. - Equity participation, flexible vacation policy (up to 20 days PTO in Canada), paid sick and safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave. - Medical, dental, and vision coverage with the employer paying 90% of employee premiums and 50% for dependents, plus full-premium life and disability insurance.