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About the role

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Own the API and job queues that every sticker request runs through
  • Maintain the real-time connection layer that devices rely on, partnering with the firmware engineer
  • Tune and extend autoscaling for holiday spikes and fleet growth, partnering with the ML Serving engineer on GPU inference
  • Mature observability through metrics, logs, tracing and alerts
  • Build cost instrumentation for requests, models and services
  • Own release engineering for server-side services, including safe deploys, database migrations and fast rollback
  • Partner with the Trust & Safety engineer on abuse prevention, device security and privacy
  • Share on-call and improve the rotation over time
  • Harden, scale and set standards for Hapiko's backend foundations

Requirements

  • Depth in Python and PostgreSQL
  • Elixir experience, or real interest in learning it
  • Experience owning production infrastructure end to end
  • Experience scaling a queue-driven or real-time system through an order of magnitude of traffic growth
  • Comfortable being paged for systems you own
  • Ability to work on systems that are fast, safe for kids and affordable as the product scales

Benefits

  • Growth and Career Opportunities
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
  • Comprehensive Benefits
  • Other fun Perks!
  • Reasonable accommodation during the hiring and selection process

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$136,700 - CA$182,300 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

ElixirPostgresPython

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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