Senior Backend Developer, Campaigns Team

Accountabilities: Design and develop campaign infrastructure: Build and maintain robust backend systems that allow marketers to create, configure, and schedule campaigns across multiple communication channels. Own campaign authoring and content assembly: Develop systems that transform creative assets, templates, and targeting rules into delivery-ready campaigns, resolving content variations and audience eligibility before distribution. Ensure reliable campaign delivery: Build and maintain the services responsible for preparing, monitoring, and transferring campaigns to delivery systems, with effective monitoring and alerting to identify failures and delays. Enable audience targeting and personalization: Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to integrate audience segmentation and personalization signals into campaign workflows, ensuring relevant content reaches the appropriate recipients. Build extensible platform capabilities: Design configurable systems that accommodate new campaign formats, communication channels, and scheduling requirements while minimizing engineering complexity. Maintain operational excellence: Improve service reliability through observability, performance metrics, alerting, incident management, and shared on-call responsibilities. Deliver features end to end: Take ownership of complex backend initiatives throughout technical design, development, testing, deployment, and production support. Promote engineering quality: Champion code quality, automated testing, maintainable architecture, and effective software development practices while mentoring junior engineers and sharing technical knowledge. Requirements Professional experience: At least five years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend applications. Distributed systems expertise: Demonstrated experience developing fault-tolerant, highly concurrent distributed systems that operate reliably at scale. Programming proficiency: Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with modern backend languages such as Python or Ruby. Software engineering best practices: Expertise in system design, unit testing, Git, code reviews, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated deployment. Database knowledge: Strong experience with relational databases, schema design, and query optimization, particularly PostgreSQL or comparable technologies. API development: Understanding of modern web API architectures and technologies, including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and gRPC. Cloud infrastructure: Experience building and operating cloud-based applications using AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, or comparable services. Distributed technologies: Familiarity with microservices, containerization, orchestration, and messaging systems such as Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Docker. Technical leadership: Ability to guide technical decisions, communicate effectively, collaborate across teams, and mentor less experienced engineers without compromising delivery quality. Problem-solving skills: Strong analytical abilities, with a proven capacity to investigate complex technical challenges, identify root causes, and develop effective solutions collaboratively. Continuous learning: A proactive mindset, adaptability to evolving technologies, and a commitment to improving engineering practices and professional capabilities. Benefits Competitive compensation: Annual base salary ranging from CAD $140,000 to $180,000 , depending on relevant experience, skills, and job-related qualifications. Additional compensation: Potential bonus opportunities depending on the position ultimately offered. Comprehensive benefits: Access to a broad range of medical, financial, and other employee benefits. Remote work: Remote opportunity for candidates based in Canada. Career development: Opportunities to take ownership of complex technical projects, contribute to architectural decisions, and expand technical leadership skills. Collaborative environment: Work alongside cross-functional teams on innovative products and high-impact engineering challenges. Inclusive workplace: Join an organization committed to equal opportunity, diversity, and creating an environment where people from different backgrounds can thrive. Technical growth: Gain experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, messaging technologies, and scalable personalization platforms.