Backend Platform Engineer scaling Hapiko’s real - time APIs, queues, infrastructure and observability. Building reliable, secure cloud systems for Spin Master’s voice - activated kids’ sticker printer.
About the role
- Senior Platform Engineer building and evolving internal platforms for Shakepay to enhance engineering productivity. Collaborating with teams to improve system reliability and performance.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain infrastructure that supports Shakepay’s growing platform
- Develop internal tooling and automation that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency
- Implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices to manage our systems
- Build and maintain observability systems including monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
- Design and build AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate tasks and augment engineering productivity
- Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability across our platform
- Collaborate closely with product engineers on infrastructure design and operational best practices
- Participate in incident response and contribute to improving operational processes
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
- Help shape the technical direction of our infrastructure and developer platform
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles
- Strong programming experience (e.g., Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment systems
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and performance
- Experience improving developer experience through tooling or platform improvements
- Experience building tools or workflows that leverage AI/LLMs to automate tasks or augment developer productivity
- Experience working in highly collaborative engineering teams
- A pragmatic mindset focused on solving real business problems.
Benefits
- 🤖 AI Enablement: Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited)
- 🤝 Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation.
- 🥅 Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments.
- 🦷 Health & wellness: Access to health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
- 🌎 Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
- 🆙 Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
- 🌴 Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. We will give you a $1,000 bonus if you use all your vacation time.
- 🐣 Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top-up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
- 🙌 Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other.
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