About the role

Software Engineer, Backend Co-op responsible for evolving serverless infrastructure at Bree's finance platform. Utilizing AI tools while ensuring clean, maintainable systems for user credit services.

Responsibilities

Lead the architectural evolution of our serverless backend systems, focusing on scalability, maintainability, and developer experience.
Refactor and modernize our existing Lambda-based microservices architecture to establish patterns that maximize AI tool effectiveness.
Design and implement robust data pipelines and payment processing systems across multiple providers.
Champion best practices for AI-native development, creating patterns and abstractions that enable rapid iteration with tools like Cursor and Claude Code.
Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to optimize our AWS-based architecture using Infrastructure as Code.
Drive the consolidation and standardization of our data layer across Supabase, Firebase, and legacy systems.

Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js and serverless architectures, with deep AWS Lambda and event-driven systems experience.
Proven track record of architecting and refactoring complex distributed systems at scale.
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Pulumi or similar tools, and AWS services (Step Functions, SQS, EventBridge).
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI development tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining code quality and architectural integrity.
Excellence in designing clean, testable, and well-documented code that serves as an effective context for AI assistants.
Commitment to Bree's mission of providing Canadian consumers with the best short-term credit services.