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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (PBA - Growth)
Remote Canada +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 24, 2026
- Location
- Remote Canada
Remote US - Experience
- 4+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads backend engineering delivery for PBA Growth, building and operating scalable APIs and integrated solutions for enterprise merchants and partners.
What you'll do
- Own quarterly team goals, guide engineers through ambiguous problems, and support delivery.
- Collaborate with product, design, and analytics on product decisions, risks, and trade-offs.
- Monitor service health, support on-call operations, and improve team quality standards and talent development.
What they ask for
- 4+ years designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
- Experience developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- Experience planning significant features or system components and making safe changes in a large codebase.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
Pay
CAD $153,000 - $213,000 base pay per year
Tools
Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes
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