Hootsuite logo
Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media-management system that allows organizations to execute campaigns across multiple networks using a web-based dashboard. The history o

Senior Platform Backend Developer

Location

Canada

Posted

12 days ago

Salary

C$115.4K - C$161.6K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Senior Platform Backend Developer

Hootsuite

Role Description We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Developer who can help us support the development organization to deliver value to customers in a reliable, efficient, and safe manner. You’ll be working in a focused team that owns one or more pieces of the production application environment and the developer experience, you will own and deliver in service of quarterly goals on the team. This role is within our Backend Platform team. The team primarily uses Go, Scala, and PHP and has expertise in technologies such as Kafka, various AWS services, and some infrastructure-as-code tools. Your primary focus will be on developing services and tools for our product development teams as well as modernizing our existing platform. Based out of British Columbia, you will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development, DevOps. What You’ll Do: - Design and build software - tools, libraries, automation, services, and glue scripts - Responsible for the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based platform - Participate in a flexible on-call rotation - Lead by owning project milestones, epics or features - Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department - Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks - Design and build our infrastructure platform - Identify and implement new platform features - Research and evaluate new technologies - Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features - Operate our developer experience and production application environments - Diagnose and repair our distributed systems - Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations - Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work - Enable development teams - Provide executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform - Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle - Collaborate with others across the organization to solve problems and build better processes, systems, and software - Communicate by mentoring, writing documentation, participating in meetings, and sharing your work at demos Qualifications - A degree in Computer Science or Engineering - At least 5 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role - Track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact - Nice to have: Experience in backend development and devops, ideally with experience in creating tools and services for other developers - Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers - Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale and an understanding of SaaS software development practice - Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools to build and run cloud infrastructure - Optional: Experience with operating, building and maintaining cloud infrastructure - Working knowledge of Linux systems administration, including troubleshooting system-level issues, networking (L3-L7) and basic monitoring is preferred - Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs - Creativity and Innovation: seek new and better ways of doing things, generating original and imaginative ideas, products, and/or solutions - Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems - Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects Who You Are - Solution seeker: You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked. - Lifelong learner: You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t. - Resilient adapter: In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity. - Intentional collaborator: You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information. - Critical challenger: You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result. - Active communicator: You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively. - Integrated thinker: You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals. - Accountable owner: You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes. - Bar-raiser: You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected. Guiding Principles - Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles. - One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best work without compromising who they are. - Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. - Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. - Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. - Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. Pay Range Canada Pay Range For This Role: $115,400 — $161,600 CAD Use of AI in Hiring Hootsuite uses artificial intelligence (AI) to support our recruitment process. These tools may assist with screening and assessing applicants and/or summarizing interview feedback. All final hiring decisions are made by human decision-makers who use their professional judgement to review and evaluate relevant candidate information in addition to AI outputs.

Related Job Pages

More Backend Engineer Jobs

Locus Robotics logo

Technical Director – AI Enterprise Architect

Locus Robotics

One AMR Fleet. Total Warehouse Optimization.

Backend Engineer12 days ago
Full TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2014H1B Sponsor

• Define and drive the company-wide AI roadmap, including prioritization frameworks, sequencing of initiatives, and executive alignment. • Partner with leaders across Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Operations, and Marketing to identify high-leverage opportunities. • Redesign processes from the ground up into AI-native, automated workflows. • Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems, including agentic workflows that automate end-to-end processes. • Own the full lifecycle—from scoping through deployment, monitoring, and iteration. • Architect scalable LLM-powered systems, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), unified context layers, and integration frameworks that connect enterprise data sources. • Design and implement robust data pipelines, integration layers, and shared infrastructure that enable reusable, enterprise-wide AI capabilities. • Establish frameworks for model governance, risk management, data access, and security. • Define standards for tools, evaluation, and responsible AI usage. • Drive AI adoption across the organization by mentoring leaders, establishing best practices, and fostering AI-native ways of working.

United States
$200K - $300K / year
Vultr logo

Software Engineer, PHP

Vultr

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud computing easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible.

Backend Engineer12 days ago
Full TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2014H1B No Sponsor

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance PHP applications serving millions of API requests daily • Design and optimize MySQL database schemas, queries, and indexing for performance and reliability • Implement and maintain RESTful APIs following modern API design standards, including OpenAPI specifications and versioning best practices • Design and implement asynchronous workflows, background jobs, queues, and event-driven integrations where appropriate • Participate in architecture discussions, incident response, and root-cause analysis for production issues • Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices • Write clean, well-tested code with comprehensive unit and integration test coverage

United States
$85K - $95K / year
Vultr logo

Senior Software Engineer, PHP

Vultr

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud computing easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible.

Backend Engineer12 days ago
Full TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2014H1B No Sponsor

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance PHP applications serving millions of API requests daily • Architect and optimize MySQL database schemas, queries, and indexing strategies for low-latency access • Implement and maintain RESTful APIs following modern API design standards, including OpenAPI specifications and versioning best practices • Design and implement asynchronous workflows, background jobs, queues, and event-driven integrations where appropriate • Participate in architecture discussions, incident response, and root-cause analysis for production issues • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver scalable solutions • Conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and champion engineering best practices • Write clean, well-tested code with comprehensive unit and integration test coverage

United States
$120K - $135K / year
ClanX logo

Principal Software Engineer – Backend

ClanX

clanX brings world-class product builders together as cloud-based teams & connects them with high growth tech companies.

Backend Engineer12 days ago
Full TimeRemoteTeam 1-10H1B No Sponsor

• Design, build, and maintain scalable full-stack applications. • Lead architecture, technical design, and engineering best practices. • Develop modern frontend applications using React.js. • Build scalable backend services using Node.js and Python. • Drive adoption of AI-assisted development to improve engineering productivity. • Mentor and guide engineers through code reviews, technical discussions, and career development. • Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Business teams to deliver customer-focused solutions. • Manage technical priorities, stakeholder expectations, and project delivery. • Continuously improve application performance, reliability, and scalability.

India
₹5,000K - ₹6,000K / year