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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Data)

  • CAD 153,000 to 213,000 per year
  • Remote, Canada
  • Senior
  • Posted 9 days ago
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Backend engineering role on the identity team, building the systems that onboard and verify customers; remote across most of Canada.

About the role

Ownership of high-availability, low-latency services on the paths every product depends on. The team handles consumer onboarding plus authentication and verification flows, and the work is judged by reliability and clear technical direction.

At a glance

Pay
CAD 153,000 to 213,000 per year
Remote scope
Remote, Canada
Seniority
Senior
Skills
Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes
Posted
20 Oct 2026
Last checked
27 Oct 2026

What you will do

  • Own quarterly goals for the team and guide engineers through open-ended problems
  • Work with product, design and analytics on ideation, technical constraints and trade-offs
  • Spot issues in projects, process or technology, make the case for fixing them and lead the fix
  • Keep services running: build and watch metrics, handle escalations and share on-call duty

What they look for

  • 4+ years designing, building and shipping backend systems at scale in Python or Kotlin
  • Track record with highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
  • Experience planning delivery of a major feature or component with simple, extensible design
  • Comfortable making big changes in a large codebase and building tooling that makes them safe

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Is this a remote job, and where can I work from?

The posting lists it as remote for people in Canada.

What does this job pay?

The posting states CAD 153,000 to 213,000 per year.

What experience is needed?

It is a senior role. The posting asks for: 4+ years designing, building and shipping backend systems at scale in Python or Kotlin; track record with highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes; experience planning delivery of a major feature or component with simple, extensible design. Skills it names include Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL.

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