Senior Backend Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Backend Engineer scaling Feathery’s AI operating and decisioning platform for financial services. Building distributed document-processing and workflow systems with AWS, APIs, and asynchronous pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale backend services powering document processing and workflow automation
  • Develop asynchronous pipelines and distributed systems for large data volumes
  • Build and maintain AWS infrastructure and queueing systems such as SQS
  • Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and observability
  • Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency
  • Process and transform structured and unstructured data
  • Integrate OCR and AI model services
  • Improve document and data processing pipeline reliability and throughput
  • Contribute to product APIs and internal services
  • Define requirements and ship features with product teams
  • Collaborate with frontend and customer-facing teams on new use cases
  • Translate customer needs into scalable backend solutions
  • Contribute to product planning and technical scoping
  • Own key backend systems and architecture decisions
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering best practices
  • Improve code quality, testing, and deployment processes
  • Stay current with backend and infrastructure technologies

Requirements

  • 4–7+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems
  • Strong proficiency in Node.js, Django, or similar backend frameworks
  • Experience designing distributed systems and asynchronous processing pipelines
  • Solid experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure
  • Strong understanding of system performance, reliability, and observability
  • Experience building production-grade APIs and services
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Downtown Toronto office location
  • Office snacks and lunches
  • A supportive, low-ego team that values ownership and growth
  • Company offsite to connect and recharge

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$120,000 - CA$170,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDjangoJavaScriptNode.js

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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