717 Backend Developer jobs in Canada

**The Java Backend Developer is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.**
**The BlackBird team globally supports connectivity and routing solutions both direct to clients over API and also via ECN platforms. We're seeking to hire an experienced candidate to help to advance the BlackBird platform creating a best in class, next generation product for our connectivity needs. The role will involve contribution to the global build-out, as well as maintaining a strong partnership with both internal and external stakeholders.**
**This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to transform the connectivity landscape at Citi. It will involve working directly with internal and external partners to solve both business and technology problems with a direct measurable impact on the business.**
**Responsibilities:**
**Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas**
**Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users**
**Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement**
**Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality**
**Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems**
**Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes**
**Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower-level analysts**
**Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.**
**Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.**
**Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.**
**Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency**
**Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design**
**Development of common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi's best practices**
**Responsible for creating high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing Citi frameworks**
**Working with other core E-Trading teams to manage and support the application.**
**Ensuring strong reliability, scalability and performance of the core Blackbird components**
**Liaise with technical, business and quant teams to collaborate on identifying opportunities and solutions**
**Execute on our technical strategy for the platform**
**Coordinate development with both internal technology teams and business/quants**
**Drive engineering standards and continue to strive for best in class**
**Qualifications:**
**5-8 years of relevant experience**
**Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications**
**Experience in managing and implementing successful projects**
**Extensive hand-on coding expertise in Core Java**
**Strong Software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented** **programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills**
**Strong focus on system performance tuning and experience with low latency Java programming**
**Solid understanding of service architecture and high performance, low latency, and multithreading techniques**
**Experience architecting and designing high performance server side components.**
**At least 6+ years of experience using Java to develop service oriented applications**
**Prior experience in building e-trading systems is highly desirable**
**Knowledge of any Interest Rates or Futures financial products (e.g. bonds, interest rate swaps) is highly desirable**
**Technical skills include Java, Spring, TDD, KDB, FIX, and UNIX/LINU**
**Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods**
**Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements**
**Education:**
**Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience**
**This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.**
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Job Description

Job Description

Starboard Recruitment, on behalf of our client, is searching for an experienced Senior Backend Developer (Python/Terraform/AWS/REST).

Our client is one of Vancouver's top Series-A, freshly funded, AI-integrated, tech startups with an innovative platform completely disrupting their space. Headcount is ~70 and growing. Below is a list of desired qualifications. A detailed job description will be sent to qualified candidates along with invitation to speak further.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage a rapidly evolving technology stack on a diverse set of platforms ranging from Django, Terraform for AWS infrastructure and others.
• Design and develop state-of-the-art approaches to solving complex and ambiguous problems using cloud based technologies.
• Take ownership of backend feature development and maintenance from ideation to deployment.
• Lead system design and architecture decisions for the product
• Propose innovative solutions to complex problems, considering scalability and maintainability for backend systems.
• Ensure backend services are secure, performant and scalable
• Manage processes to maintain SOC2 compliance
• Ensure code adheres to best practices, established patterns, and quality and performance standards
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (e.g., web, mobile) throughout the development lifecycle.
• Understand team dependencies and drive alignment across interconnected projects.
• Champion clean code practices within the team, ensuring code quality and maintainability for backend projects.
• Mentor junior developers in code quality and best practices specific to backend development.
• Stay updated on emerging trends and technologies in the backend development landscape.

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Job Description

Job Description

Senior Back-End Developer

(This role is open to hybrid candidates in Montreal/Ottawa only)

Successful candidates for this position will be expected to participate in a rotational on-call schedule and able to obtain Canadian government security clearance.

GHGSat offers greenhouse gas detection, measurement, and monitoring services to industrial and government customers around the world. We use our own satellites and aircraft sensors, combined with third-party data, to help industrial emitters better understand, control, and reduce their emissions.

GHGSat’s capability is unique: The company provides high-resolution, local measurements of atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide concentration from space. This further provides the company with a means to detect greenhouse gas emitters and to visualize and quantify their emissions.

You will join the Operations Systems team as a Back End developer. The Operations System team’s mandate is to design and deploy software systems that process, manage, and store emissions related data. The team operates using Agile Scrum methodology. Tasks include, but are not limited to, the following:

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in relevant roles
• Strong computational science or software development skills
• Proven capability with: Linux, Python, Docker
• Experience with Cloud-based services (AWS)
• Competence with databases (PostgreSQL)
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal direction

Responsibilities:

• Develop and monitor satellite and aircraft data processing pipelines
• Develop, test, integrate, and deploy backend software to our cloud-based environments
• Monitor production systems and applications to ensure high availability and performance
• Analyze data collected with our remote sensing instruments
• Assist stakeholders with the implementation and the documentation of new tools
• Liaise with Operators, Developers, Designers, QA and Product Managers to identify and define new features

Assets :

• Experience using software development tools such as Git version control and Docker
• Interest in scientific analysis, atmospheric sciences, remote sensing and space technology
• Experience with Geographical Information Systems
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with deployment using Argo Workflows
• Familiar with the Scrum Agile Framework

Benefits

• Competitive salary + stock options for all full-time employees
• Health/Dental benefits
• Paid Time Off + floating statutory holidays
• Flexible work environment

GHGSat offers a creative and highly motivating work environment. We offer competitive salaries, health and social benefits including flex-time and continuing development. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. GHGSat is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your recruiter.

**_Role Overview:_**
McAfee's VPN Engineering team is looking for an experienced and passionate full-time Backend Software Engineer to join the VPN Infrastructure team and help us build and grow our service that is used by millions of people around the world.
As apart of this team, you'll be working closely with fellow backend developers who maintain the backend application that runs McAfee's VPN service. You will be integrated within the VPN Infrastructure team working closely with backend, data & DevOps engineers to create experiences that keep our users secure, private, and more confident online.
You will get exposure to building and optimizing software that runs on a network of VPN servers distributed in 50+ countries. We are a small team, so naturally the kind of people who tend to succeed in our team are generalists. You should be comfortable in dabbling with all forms of development, such as occasionally tweaking our CI/CD pipelines, assisting with code reviews of frontend development, assisting in incident & outage management and more.
You will be joining a tight-knit team of easy going individuals who like to work hard and have fun together. You will be invited to join one of the many clubs we hold dear - from board-games to geo-guesser and more. An ideal fit will enjoy contributing to a team where the result is greater than the sum of its parts. We always support each other and are excited to share their knowledge and advice. We encourage a culture where your ideas are valued and respected!
This position is based in Canada preferably in either Waterloo or Toronto. You may be required to be onsite on an as-needed basis. We are only considering candidates in Canada and are not offering relocation assistance at this time.
**_About the Role:_**
+ Write clear, concise and well-tested code in Scala, and occasionally in Java or other languages. You don't have to know all (or any) of these coming in, provided that you can demonstrate that you can learn things quickly.
+ Assist with as well as sometimes lead large projects, architectural changes and feature development required to enable the growth and improvement of the backend applications our VPN service relies on.
+ Implement and maintain the backend API's used by our clients.
+ Assist peers in the implementation and maintenance of our frontend products (i.e. website & VPN browser extension) and our backend infrastructure services that manage our VPN network.
+ Review product requirements, specifications and technical design documents and provide accurate feedback to ensure that software is written in a testable and supportable fashion.
+ Ensure the privacy and security of our user management services.
+ Collaborate with our connection analytics and censorship circumvention teams to improve our VPN network.
**_About You:_**
+ You have 6+ years of experience working with backend technology, and you understand which tools and frameworks to use and why.
+ You have a strong understanding of SQL, and relational database design.
+ You are familiar with functional programming languages, such as Scala or Python.
+ You have experience with AWS (ECS, RDS, Elasticache, S3) and CloudFlare is an asset.
+ You are comfortable designing & working on system level architectural components.
+ You are familiar with the Play Framework, Docker, Terraform, and Redis is a plus.
+ You have demonstrated ownership and pride over your projects and are able to work outside of your usual comfort zone when necessary.
+ You have strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to tailor communication based on the audience (i.e. business vs. technical).
+ You feel right at home in the terminal, comfortable with Linux or macOS.
+ You get bonus points for knowledge of anti-censorship and privacy technologies.
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**_Company Overview_**
McAfee is a leader in personal security for consumers. Focused on protecting people, not just devices, McAfee consumer solutions adapt to users' needs in an always online world, empowering them to live securely through integrated, intuitive solutions that protects their families and communities with the right security at the right moment.
**_Company Benefits and Perks:_**
We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone at McAfee to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.
+ Bonus Program
+ Pension and Retirement Plans
+ Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
+ Paid Time Off
+ Paid Parental Leave
+ Support for Community Involvement
We're serious about our commitment to diversity which is why McAfee prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.

**The Backend Developer is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities.**
**Responsibilities:**
**Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements**
**Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards**
**Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint**
**Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation**
**Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals**
**Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions**
**Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work as necessary**
**Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.**
**Qualifications:**
**6-10 years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role**
**Extensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications**
**Experience in managing and implementing successful projects**
**Subject Matter Expert (SME) in at least one area of Applications Development**
**Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate**
**Demonstrated leadership and project management skills**
**Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication**
**Data Pipeline Development: Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, transform, and load data from multiple sources.**
**Big Data Infrastructure: Develop and manage large-scale data processing systems using frameworks like Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Kafka.**
**Proficiency in programming languages like Python, or Scala.**
**Strong expertise in data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Hadoop, or Flink.**
**Experience with cloud data platforms like AWS (Glue, EMR, Redshift), Azure (Synapse), or GCP (BigQuery).**
**Expertise in SQL and database technologies (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.).**
**Experience with data orchestration tools like Apache Airflow or Prefect.**
**Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus**
**Good to Have Skills:**
**Distributed caching solutions (Hazelcast or Redis)**
**Prior experience with building distributed, multi-tier applications is highly desirable.**
**Experience with building apps which are highly performant and scalable will be great**
**Education:**
**Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience**
**Master's degree preferred**
**This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.**
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**Job Family Group:**
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**Job Family:**
Applications Development
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**Time Type:**
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**Most Relevant Skills**
Please see the requirements listed above.
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**Other Relevant Skills**
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, PySpark, Python (Programming Language).
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_Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law._
_If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review_ _Accessibility at Citi ( _._
_View Citi's_ _EEO Policy Statement ( _and the_ _Know Your Rights ( _poster._
Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Minority/Female/Veteran/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

The Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas
+ Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users
+ Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
+ Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality
+ Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems
+ Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
+ Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
+ Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
+ Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
+ Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
+ Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
**Qualifications:**
+ 5-8 years of relevant experience
+ Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
+ Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
+ Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods
+ Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
**Development Experience (Required)** :
+ Excellent Java 11 and above, Spring Framework hands-on experience.
+ In-depth knowledge about modern application architecture, practical experience with Microservices Framework like Spring Boot, Event Driven Services, Cloud Native Applications Development
+ Proficient in functional programming concepts with Streams API, Lambda Expressions and Optional.
+ Strong Experience with relational databases such as Oracle
+ Strong understanding of microservices architecture, including service discovery, API gateways, and inter-service communication.
+ Ability to develop secure and scalable application following secure coding best practice
+ Familiarity with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and distributed messaging systems (e.g., Kafka).
+ Experience in Agile, Scrum, and/or Test Driven Development environment
+ Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirement
+ Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal skills
**Education:**
+ Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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**Job Family Group:**
Technology
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**Job Family:**
Applications Development
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**Time Type:**
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_Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law._
_If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review_ _Accessibility at Citi ( _._
_View Citi's_ _EEO Policy Statement ( _and the_ _Know Your Rights ( _poster._
Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Minority/Female/Veteran/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

**Remote, Canada**
**Staff Backend Developer, Parsec**
Location
Remote, Canada
Department
Engineering
Requisition ID
JOBREQ-2514474
**Role description**
**The opportunity**
Unity is looking for a Staff Software Developer to join the Parsec team, focused on pushing the boundaries of what's possible in remote collaboration, hybrid work, and enterprise management.
Parsec offers ultra-low latency, high-performance remote access technology that enables creative professionals to work from anywhere, businesses to support hybrid work, and individuals to collaborate in real-time. Our platform delivers near-native performance for creatives, game developers, and enterprise users needing responsive, high-fidelity computing.
You will mentor and guide developers as they design, build, and deploy web applications and services for remote access and cloud administration, and play a key role in designing technical solutions that focus on system performance, reliability, and cost optimization at scale.
**What you'll be doing**
+ Work with senior developers and managers to provide technical design and architecture for Parsec's APIs, signaling service, and billing to maintain high availability at scale
+ Design, build, test, and maintain underlying web applications, APIs, and micro-services
+ Maintain clear and effective communication within the team and broader organization
+ Mentor other engineers and establish engineering best practices that allow the team to achieve assigned projects and goals
+ Operate within a distributed team and collaborate with colleagues both local and remote
+ Collaborate with colleagues from product, frontend, native, DevOps, security, and QA
**What we're looking for**
+ Experience building large scale, highly available web apps and APIs (REST, WebSocket) that allow our customers to monitor and control extensive fleets of IT equipment
+ Demonstrated ability to orchestrate and manage serverless cloud architecture
+ Solid development experience with Golang, JavaScript (TypeScript), MySQL
+ Experience using and maintaining observability platforms for: logging, metrics, application monitoring/tracing. (Cloudwatch, Athena and Sentry, etc)
+ Experience managing infrastructure costs through cloud service dashboards and alerting
+ Experience running a high availability production service or product with on call shifts
+ Experience mentoring developers to improve their skills and make them more effective
**You might also have**
+ Experience working with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
+ Experience with networking technologies (STUN servers, NAT traversal)
+ Development experience with native programming language like C and C++ Working knowledge of the Parsec app and remote access administration dashboards
**Additional information**
+ Relocation support is not available for this position.
+ Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position
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As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity ( .
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Gross base salary
$153,000-$229,600 CAD