Senior Backend Engineer (Canada)

CommIT

$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of backend development experience with customer-centric products
  • Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript or similar technologies
  • Deep understanding of backend architecture, including microservices and API design
  • Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Experience in building systems that handle high data volumes
  • Proven problem-solving skills in technical challenges
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills across global teams

Responsibilities

  • Work with customers to identify their technical needs and challenges
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate customer feedback into product development
  • Design and deliver backend features and integrations based on customer requirements
  • Resolve complex technical issues related to architecture and performance
  • Understand the company platform holistically to align customer use cases with product capabilities
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and technical best practices
  • Support technical discussions with customers using deep product expertise
  • Enhance product reliability and customer satisfaction in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a high-impact role that combines engineering, product, and customer engagement
  • Engagement with a customer-focused team, allowing for direct customer interaction
  • Collaboration with diverse teams across the company
  • Work in a fast-paced environment that values technical ownership and collaboration
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and methodologies in backend development
Full Job Description
Description

We are looking for a highly skilled and technically proficient Senior Backend Engineer to join our Customer Focus Group (CFG).This is a unique, high-impact role that sits at the intersection of engineering, product, architecture, and customer engagement. As part of the CFG, you will work closely with the company platform. We are looking for a candidate who combines strong backend development expertise with a broad product mindset, excellent communication skills, and the ability to bridge technical and commercial priorities.

What You'll Do:

  • Work directly with customers to understand technical needs, challenges, and product gaps.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, sales, customer success, and management teams to ensure customer feedback is reflected in product development.
  • Design, develop, and deliver backend features, integrations, and technical solutions that address customer needs.
  • Investigate and resolve complex technical issues across architecture, infrastructure, performance, and scalability.
  • Gain a deep, holistic understanding of the company platform and help connect customer use cases to product capabilities.
  • Contribute to backend architecture decisions, API design, system design, and technical best practices.
  • Support customer-facing technical discussions by providing deep product and engineering expertise.
  • Help improve product reliability, performance, scalability, and overall customer satisfaction.
  • Operate in a fast-paced environment where technical ownership, collaboration, and customer impact are key.


Requirements

What We're Looking For:

  • 5+ years of backend development experience, preferably working on customer-facing or customer-centric products.
  • Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript, or comparable backend technologies.
  • Deep understanding of backend architecture, including microservices, API design, distributed systems, and design patterns.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including services such as serverless computing, managed databases, storage, queues, and observability tools.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Experience building and scaling systems that process high volumes of data.
  • Proven ability to solve complex technical problems and deliver performant, scalable, production-grade solutions.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across globally distributed teams.
  • Experience working in agile development environments.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern software delivery practices.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience in cybersecurity, application security, DevSecOps, or software supply chain security.
  • Experience working closely with enterprise customers.
  • Background in technical consulting, solutions engineering, customer engineering, or field engineering.
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, incident investigation, and production troubleshooting.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD ecosystems, source control platforms, container security, SAST, SCA, DAST, or cloud security tools.

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