Senior backend engineer building scalable services for Ground News, a platform comparing news sources and media bias. Owning backend features, reliability, and safe production rollouts.
About the role
- Backend Software Engineer developing cloud-based solutions and modernizing legacy banking systems at Manulife. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and secure backend services.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain cloud‑based backend services that are scalable, secure, and reliable
- Develop and integrate RESTful APIs to support internal and external system interactions
- Contribute to the modernization of legacy applications using microservices architecture
- Deploy, monitor, and support services in production using CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, and other engineers to deliver high‑quality solutions
- Participate in code reviews, debugging, and performance optimization
- Support operational excellence through monitoring, logging, and incident resolution
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in backend software development
- Hands‑on experience building applications using Java
- Experience working with Microsoft Azure
- Familiarity with Kubernetes
- Experience using CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions) to deploy production code
- Familiarity with Azure Data Explorer (preferred)
- Observability and monitoring experience (e.g., New Relic) (preferred)
- Experience with NodeJS and Microservices (preferred)
- Experience with SQL (preferred)
Benefits
- health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage
- adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits
- employee/family assistance plans
- various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions)
- financial education and counseling resources
- generous paid time off program in Canada (including holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days)
- full range of statutory leaves of absence
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