87 Backend Staff jobs in Canada

Job Description

About the Role:
We are seeking a skilled Backend Developer to join our technology team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining the server-side logic, databases, and APIs that power our applications. This role requires strong programming skills, a solid understanding of system architecture, and the ability to collaborate with frontend developers and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain server-side applications, APIs, and databases.

• Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and other team members to implement functional and scalable solutions.

• Ensure the performance, scalability, and security of backend systems.

• Optimize applications for maximum speed and reliability.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve software defects and issues.

• Participate in code reviews, documentation, and development best practices.

• Stay updated with emerging backend technologies, frameworks, and best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, Node.js, Ruby, or similar.

• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

• Familiarity with RESTful API design, authentication, and security protocols.

• Understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and version control systems (e.g., Git).

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and microservices architecture.

• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

• Understanding of caching, message queues, and other performance optimization techniques.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Opportunities for professional growth and skill development.

• Health insurance and other employee benefits.

• Flexible work hours and remote work options.

• Collaborative and innovative work environment.

Job Description

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Backend Developer to join our team! In this essential role, you will be part of a team developing, deploying, and maintaining backend services with an emphasis on infrastructure. We are seeking someone eager to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Backend Development: Develop customer-facing applications, APIs, and infrastructure, leveraging Go for backend development and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Infrastructure & DevOps: Maintain secure, high-availability cloud infrastructures and microservice architectures, applying cybersecurity best practices and handling DevOps responsibilities such as troubleshooting issues and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• System Reliability & Monitoring: Develop and maintain observability tools, leveraging dashboards such as Kibana for proactive monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure systems are online and performing as expected.

Parallelz Cultural Values

Drive to Win. High Performance Matters: We are inspired by those who pursue excellence, and we work with those who do. Achieving this required hard work, humility, and a commitment to constant improvement.

Challenge the Status Quo. Innovate Constantly: Curiosity drives us. We challenge the status quo and pursue ideas that fuel continuous growth.

Lead with First Principles. Reduce, Rethink, Rebuild: We deconstruct challenges to their atomic level, rethink and challenge assumptions, and pursue deep understanding to create impactful innovations.

Act Like It’s Yours. Own It: Everyone is expected to think like an owner. Taking full responsibility for understanding the inputs, outputs, and context to deliver and be accountable to the results that move the vision forward.

Parallelz is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs. Accommodation may be provided in all parts of the hiring process.

Requirements

Required Skills:

• Go (Golang) programming language
• Experience developing backend APIs
• Experience maintaining infrastructure systems that include microservices and queues
• Understanding of cybersecurity and cloud security best practices.
• Experience with Docker containers
• Basic understanding of container orchestrators such as Kubernetes
• Proficiency in designing and creating dashboards and alerts to ensure system health
• Passion for solving complex technical challenges
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts and ideas

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience with Traefik
• Experience with GitHub Actions
• Experience with OpenTelemetry

Benefits

This is a full-time position. We offer a competitive salary, benefits, and an Employee Stock Option Plan.

Job Description

The Company

SimplyAnalytics is a powerful spatial analytics and data visualization application used by thousands of business, marketing, and social science researchers in the United States and Canada. It comes pre-packaged with 200,000+ data variables and allows our users to create maps, charts, tabular reports, and crosstabs. We are passionate about creating outstanding software, and we believe in test driven development, continuous integration, and code review.

As a smaller company, each of our developers has an important role to play - at SimplyAnalytics, you are not just another cog in the wheel, you are an integral member of our team. You will be working on valuable features and making key decisions that impact the direction of the product and the satisfaction of our users. In addition, we provide an excellent work-life balance, with 100% remote work, 20 personal days off, flexible work hours, a collaborative work environment, and quarterly “professional development days” to explore and share your interests with the rest of the team.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to take on an important role in the development and maintenance of our cutting edge analytics and data visualization application. You'll be developing and maintaining production-quality in-house tools and customer-facing features within a large shared code base.

Our stack is modern vanilla PHP and Postgres/PostGIS, with Python for data processing. We use modern software development practices such as static typing and analysis, as well as automated testing.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, has a high level of attention to detail, is comfortable asking questions, enjoys working with talented colleagues, and has an interest in analytics and data visualization.

This is a 100% remote position, our developers can live and work anywhere in Canada. This is a full-time salaried position. When applying, please include a cover letter.

Please only apply if you are currently living in Canada.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and test features, both in-house and customer-facing
• Write high-quality, clean, scalable, and maintainable code
• Contribute ideas for new features or improvements to existing features
• Assist colleagues through code-review, collaboration, and troubleshooting

Required:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience on large, structured code bases using PHP or other OO language
• Comfortable using Linux CLI
• Intermediate relational database and data manipulation skills
• Thorough understanding of API design principles
• Experience with PostgreSQL

Bonus:

• Python experience
• Experience using AWS services
• Familiarity with PSR standards
• Experience with geospatial demographic, business, marketing, or health data
• Experience with PostGIS
• Experience with Psalm or other static analyzers

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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

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for our client in downtown Vancouver. This is a permanent full-time position working at an national company with a range of products from telecommunications, health, safety and others. This position is remote to start during Covid, then it will be 3 days remote and 2 days in the office.

You will :

• Develop scalable RESTful services
• Managing large scale AWS based infrastructure
• Developing code that is unit, integration and end to end tested
• Designing and developing scalable systems
• Working collaboratively with a team of developers
• Assist in mentoring junior developers
• Assist in mentoring junior developers
• Provide clear and timely communication to the team lead and the rest of the project team
• Learn new technologies in order to keep up with current trends or as required by new projects

You Have :

• Experience with AWS infrastructure management
• Proven 5+ years of experience in designing scalable systems (APIs)
• Strong understanding of testing
• Experience with backend and API development (Node.js )
• Understanding of unit testing (Jest/Enzyme/React Testing Library preferred)
• Familiar with end to end testing (Cypress.io preferred)
• Familiar with build pipeline and Continuous Integration
• Experience with Docker
• Fluent in English and excellent communication skills

Job Description

Company Description

At Sectigo, we align around our mission and pride ourselves in helping thousands of customers sleep better at night.

Sectigo is a leading provider of digital identity and cybersecurity solutions, offering a comprehensive suite of products to protect online transactions and communications. Our mission is to secure the digital landscape for enterprises worldwide.

“When people think Online trust management, they think Sectigo because we offer our customers unparalleled peace of mind.”

How we show up with each other and our customers every day is just as important, and we win as #OneSectigo by living out our core values - S upport, E xcellence, C ommunication, T eamwork, I ntegrity, G rowth and O penness. We are committed to investing in our diverse teams where everyone understands their role and how they support our strategic goals, we drive operational excellence through scale and efficiency, and we strive to delight our customers and become the market leader in our industry. If you aspire to join a driven team that holds each other accountable to meeting our lofty goals and you’d like to be part of our growth story in delivering a market leading user experience, we’d like to talk to you.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our growing global team at Sectigo.

The Senior Backend Developer will have a passion to learn and the dedication to immediately contribute to our web security applications. This individual will thrive on learning new technologies and is eager to make an immediate impact on our web security platforms. This individual will manage the quality, scalability, and robustness required with their Perl and Golang skills to support an established SaaS product. 

This is a full-time position working in the hybrid model and at least 3 days a week from our Ottawa office. 

Here are the core functions, responsibilities, and expectations for this role: 

• Work with an experienced team to architect and modernize an established website security platform and APIs built in Perl 5 with new development ongoing in Golang.
• Build and maintain internal APIs, external APIs, with a focus on modernization and long-term stability and maintainability. 
• MySQL Database design and optimizations to manage connections for scalability and performance. 
• Migrate and streamline legacy workflows into a message broker or event-driven architecture. 
• Continue improvements to production logging, monitoring, and observability. 
• Work with Product, Engineering, and Operations Teams to improve our core security scanning capabilities – ensuring compatibility, performance, and robustness of the core products while continuing to add functionality. 
• Responsible for creating more than just production code – tests, design, documentation, performance analysis, and product support. 
• Other duties as assigned and related to the nature of this role and company initiatives.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent experience is strongly preferred.

Experience:

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant technical developer experience in corporate and/or commercial settings.
• Strong leadership and system design principles – collaborate with fellow Perl developers to architect scalable and performant complex systems in an agile team. 
• Experience developing software in a professional environment, including technical refinement in an agile team, source control, bug tracking, unit testing. 
• Languages and Utilities: Perl, lig Memcached, Redis, lftp, clamav, and Ubuntu utilities.
• Experience with software and system designs: software design patterns, object-oriented architecture and design, network principles and protocols, REST API design, microservices, and unit testing. 
• In-depth knowledge and experience with various web hosting environments and network protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, SSH, FTP, HTTP). 

Ideal Candidate Profiles, Talents, and Desired Qualifications:

• Excellent English language communication skills to work effectively with a global team. 
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 web application security risks and how to mitigate them. 
• Familiarity with web scraping, website fingerprinting, and modern malware challenges. 
• Knowledge of static and dynamic code analysis tools. 
• In-depth knowledge of MySQL and stored procedures. 
• Interests in building and deploying pipelines, containerization, and collaborating on CI/CD improvements. 
• Experience with or desire to learn Golang a plus. 

Global team. Global reach. Global impact.

At Sectigo, we believe doing good is good business. Our strength and our success come from our team of passionate, engaged individuals who make a difference, both locally and globally. Our commitment to engagement is rooted in an unconditionally inclusive workforce, embodying our unique perspectives, heritages, and backgrounds, all as diverse as the experiences of each Sectigo employee. Importantly, we strive to be recognized not only as the CLM leader but also for our intentional efforts to promote employees into the roles that most challenge and excite them, into experiences that allow them to grow their interests as we grow the business. We are committed to bringing a little bit of fun and a whole lot of happiness into everything we do so that our work – and our team members – reflect the positive outcomes we deliver to our customers every day.  

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for our client in downtown Vancouver. This is a permanent full-time position working at an national company with a range of products from telecommunications, health, safety and others. This position is remote to start during Covid, then it will be 3 days remote and 2 days in the office.

You will :

• Develop scalable RESTful services
• Managing large scale AWS based infrastructure
• Developing code that is unit, integration and end to end tested
• Designing and developing scalable systems
• Working collaboratively with a team of developers
• Assist in mentoring junior developers
• Assist in mentoring junior developers
• Provide clear and timely communication to the team lead and the rest of the project team
• Learn new technologies in order to keep up with current trends or as required by new projects

You Have :

• Experience with AWS infrastructure management
• Proven 5+ years of experience in designing scalable systems (APIs)
• Strong understanding of testing
• Experience with backend and API development (Node.js )
• Understanding of unit testing (Jest/Enzyme/React Testing Library preferred)
• Familiar with end to end testing (Cypress.io preferred)
• Familiar with build pipeline and Continuous Integration
• Experience with Docker
• Fluent in English and excellent communication skills

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for our client in downtown Vancouver. This is a permanent full-time position working at an national company with a range of products from telecommunications, health, safety and others. This position is remote to start during Covid, then it will be 3 days remote and 2 days in the office.

You will :

• Develop scalable RESTful services
• Managing large scale AWS based infrastructure
• Developing code that is unit, integration and end to end tested
• Designing and developing scalable systems
• Working collaboratively with a team of developers
• Assist in mentoring junior developers
• Assist in mentoring junior developers
• Provide clear and timely communication to the team lead and the rest of the project team
• Learn new technologies in order to keep up with current trends or as required by new projects

You Have :

• Experience with AWS infrastructure management
• Proven 5+ years of experience in designing scalable systems (APIs)
• Strong understanding of testing
• Experience with backend and API development (Node.js )
• Understanding of unit testing (Jest/Enzyme/React Testing Library preferred)
• Familiar with end to end testing (Cypress.io preferred)
• Familiar with build pipeline and Continuous Integration
• Experience with Docker
• Fluent in English and excellent communication skills