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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Cost Engineering)

  • Remote, Canada
  • Senior
  • Posted 8 days ago
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In one line

Backend role on a capacity modeling team, turning traffic forecasts into concrete capacity plans for a payments platform.

About the role

Suits someone who can take an open-ended problem and lead a small team through it, owning quarterly goals and keeping delivery on track.

At a glance

Pay
Not stated in the posting
Remote scope
Remote, Canada
Seniority
Senior
Skills
Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes
Posted
21 Oct 2026
Last checked
26 Oct 2026

What you will do

  • Own and deliver the team's quarterly goals, guiding engineers through vague problems
  • Work with product, design and analytics on ideation, technical limits and trade-offs
  • Watch over the team's systems with metrics, escalation and on-call duties

What they look for

  • Four or more years building and launching backend systems at scale in Python or Kotlin
  • Track record with highly available distributed systems on AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
  • Experience scaling infrastructure up and down for big sales events like Black Friday
  • Have tuned autoscaling, CPU and memory, and threading for compute workloads

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Questions about this job

Can I do this job remotely, and from which countries?

Yes, it is listed as remote, aimed at candidates in Canada.

What does this job pay?

No pay range is stated in the posting.

What experience is needed?

It is a senior role. The posting asks for: four or more years building and launching backend systems at scale in Python or Kotlin; track record with highly available distributed systems on AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes; experience scaling infrastructure up and down for big sales events like Black Friday. Skills it names include Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL.

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