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Lead Backend Developer
Location
Canada
Posted
6 days ago
Salary
$104.3K - $130K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Lead Backend Developer
Varicent
• Own delivery for significant features or systems: clarify requirements, design solutions, execute, ship, and iterate. • Design and build scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that support core product functionality. • Drive system design decisions, balancing scalability, performance, reliability, and cost. • Define how quality is measured for your area (success metrics, testing strategy, observability) and automate it wherever possible. • Lead structured experimentation: define hypotheses, evaluate results, and translate insights into product and system improvements. • Improve operational readiness: deployment automation, monitoring/alerting, incident response, and performance optimization. • Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on technical guidance. • Influence engineering best practices, architecture decisions, and long-term technical direction.
Job Requirements
- Overall: 6+ years in software engineering
- Relevant: 3+ years building and shipping production systems in product teams
- Technical (hands-on coding): 5+ years
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and advanced system design experience
- Hands-on coding in Python and/or TypeScript (or similar), building APIs, services, and data pipelines
- Experience designing and scaling distributed systems in production environments
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), CI/CD, automated testing, and observability
- Proven ability to own systems end-to-end, from design through production and iteration
- Experience working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with evolving requirements
- Strong experimentation mindset: define metrics, build evaluation approaches, and iterate quickly
Benefits
- variable compensation program
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