Technical Lead for Water Information Systems within Hamilton's Public Works, overseeing data management and GIS projects. Leading initiatives to enhance software applications for asset management.
About the role
- Backend-focused software engineer building secure, scalable infrastructure with a fully distributed team. Converting product requirements into technical design documentation and implementing enterprise-scale backend services.
Responsibilities
- Join a small, senior team at the early stages of building a product from scratch
- Convert product requirements into thorough technical design documentation
- Architect and implement backend services built to handle enterprise-scale demand
- Design systems with high availability and fault tolerance in mind
- Embed security thinking at every layer — application, API, and infrastructure
- Own API design across both public-facing and internal service boundaries, including schema modeling and integration patterns
- Work cross-functionally with product and design stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle
- Thrive in a remote-first environment using a blend of synchronous video calls and async communication
- Stay current with emerging technologies and approach new challenges with genuine curiosity
- Take part in engineering hiring by conducting interviews and evaluating candidates
Requirements
- Strong working knowledge of Go
- Hands-on background with microservices and service-oriented architecture
- Comfort writing raw SQL and designing relational database schemas, preferably in Postgres
- Practical experience with CI/CD workflows and container orchestration via Kubernetes
- Prior work building observability tooling — metrics pipelines, alerting systems, and distributed tracing
- Working knowledge of modern auth protocols such as OAuth 2.0, SAML, OIDC, or WebAuthn (Nice to have)
- Exposure to corporate IT and security tooling (device management, endpoint protection, etc.) (Nice to have)
- Experience designing and maintaining audit log systems (Nice to have)
- Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA) (Nice to have)
- Understanding of PKI infrastructure and certificate management (Nice to have)
Benefits
- Fully remote, with core overlap expected during North American business hours
- Twice-yearly in-person team gatherings
- Flexible, open vacation policy — with a genuine expectation that you use at least two weeks annually
- 16 company-designated holidays per year, including a winter break period
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
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