Backend Engineer designing APIs and integration architecture for EvenUp's AI - powered legal - tech platform. Improving client portal experiences and application performance from Toronto or San Francisco hubs.
About the role
- Senior Backend Engineer joining Movable Ink's analytics team to build scalable backend systems. Designing data pipelines and mentoring junior engineers on software engineering best practices.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems that power our measurement, attribution, and reporting capabilities
- Develop robust data pipelines and services to transform raw event streams and metrics into actionable insights
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders to define and shape a seamless, intuitive reporting UI that empowers users to understand and act on provided insights
- Own key backend components—from service architecture to deployment and monitoring—ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance at scale
- Champion engineering best practices around code quality, testing, observability, and system health
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
Requirements
- 5+ years software engineering experience
- Experience building and maintaining large distributed systems at scale that are fault tolerant and highly concurrent
- Exemplary software engineering skills (design, unit testing, git, code review, CI/CD)
- Strong foundation in modern backend development (e.g. python, ruby, etc. - we use Python and Elixir)
- Experience with functional programming principles (we use Elixir)
- An understanding of common web based API architectures (RESTful, GraphQL) and technologies (gRPC)
- Experience with a cloud provider e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP (we use Google Cloud Platform)
- Experience with modern distributed and microservice technologies (we use Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with both OLTP and OLAP systems, including designing schemas and optimizing queries
- Familiar with Software Development Lifecycle practices, such as continuous integration/continuous delivery and automated deployment (we use tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Github Actions, etc.)
- Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to collaborate with others, communicate effectively, advocate appropriately and mentor more junior engineers to improve team efficiency
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, including the ability to efficiently identify, analyze, and resolve complex issues, and communicate to others on the team how to contribute to the solutions for these issues.
- A willingness and eagerness to continuously learn, adapt to evolving technologies, and strive for personal and professional improvement.
Benefits
- full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
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