Senior Backend Engineer
1 week ago
Location: REMOTE / Remote, QuebecThis job allows you to work remotely.Our client is an AI-powered, mobile-first social sandbox where players don't just play stories, they build them. Think Minecraft meets The Sims meets Wattpad: a new genre of creative, social storytelling where AI helps players bring their imagination to life.With $6.5millions USD in Series Seed funding. Backed by top-tier investors who have invested in OpenAI, Unity, Supercell, and others, the client is building a platform that reimagines storytelling as play, combining intuitive creation tools, emotionally expressive characters, and collaborative world-building.This Role:As the Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build Go-based services that ingest, index, and serve every piece of player-generated content with blazing-fast responsiveness, from vector search queries to live game state lookups. Working hand-in-hand with our Senior Unity developers, product managers, and design team, you will define clear, high-performance APIs and ensure seamless real-time multiplayer flows between client and cloud.You’ll drive reliability and performance by optimizing PostgreSQL schemas and queries, tuning Redis caches, and instrumenting services with Prometheus and Grafana to sustain 99.9 % uptime under rapid growth.What you'll do:•Drive end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of our Go-based services for core gameplay systems and serving player-generated content.•Lead the development of distributed systems (microservices, event queues, sharding), leveraging Kubernetes, containerization, and service mesh patterns.•Partner with frontend engineers and game designers ship delightful, high-performance features that engage players.•Contribute to the technical roadmap, product vision, and long-term business strategyMust Have Skills:•5+ years building production-grade backend systems at product-driven companies.•Deep expertise in Go (standard library, concurrency, profiling, testing). Familiarity with Python is a plus.•Strong background with Postgres (schema design, indexing, replication) and in-memory stores (Redis or Memcache).•Distributed Systems - Hands-on experience with microservices, message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ), sharding, and fault-tolerant architectures.•Production Kubernetes experience: writing Helm charts or Kustomize manifests, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, autoscaling.•A track record of shipping with velocity, owning end-to-end deliverables, and iterating rapidly based on data. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Senior Backend Engineer
1 week ago
Quebec, Canada GuruLink Full timeLocation: REMOTE / Remote, QuebecThis job allows you to work remotely. Our client is an AI-powered, mobile-first social sandbox where players don't just play stories, they build them. Think Minecraft meets The Sims meets Wattpad: a new genre of creative, social storytelling where AI helps players bring their imagination to life.With $6.5millions USD in...
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Senior Backend Data Engineer – Integrations
2 weeks ago
Quebec, Canada Groupe Nordik Full timeA wellness and health services company is looking for a Senior Developer to architect and deliver backend systems that enhance its data maturity. This role requires strong expertise in SQL, data engineering, and API design, contributing to the company’s growth and success across its operations. Ideal candidates should have substantial backend experience...
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Senior Backend Data Engineer – Integrations
2 weeks ago
Quebec, Canada Groupe Nordik Full timeA wellness and health services company is looking for a Senior Developer to architect and deliver backend systems that enhance its data maturity. This role requires strong expertise in SQL, data engineering, and API design, contributing to the company’s growth and success across its operations. Ideal candidates should have substantial backend experience...
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Senior Backend Engineer
4 weeks ago
Regina, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton, Old Toronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Quebec, Winnipeg, Halifax, Saskatoon, Burnaby, Hamilton, Surrey, Victoria, London, Halton Hills, Markham, Brampton, Vaughan, Kelowna, Laval, Southwestern Ontario, R, Canada Lumenalta Full timeSenior Backend Engineer 3 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants As a Senior Backend Engineer at Lumenalta, you will design and implement robust backend systems, ensuring our applications are secure, scalable, and efficient. You will be responsible for working closely with DevOps and frontend teams to deliver high-performance applications that leverage...
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Senior Backend Engineer
3 weeks ago
Victoria, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton, Old Toronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Quebec, Winnipeg, Halifax, Saskatoon, Burnaby, Hamilton, Surrey, London, Halton Hills, Regina, Markham, Brampton, Vaughan, Kelowna, Laval, Southwestern Ontario, R, Canada Lumenalta Full timeJoin to apply for the Senior Backend Engineer (AWS) role at Lumenalta This range is provided by Lumenalta. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range CA$76,000.00/yr – CA$139,000.00/yr Role Overview As a Senior Backend Engineer at Lumenalta, you will design and implement robust...
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Backend Engineer
7 hours ago
Quebec (QC), Canada Coverstar Full timeAbout CoverstarCoverstar is building the first safe, creative, AI-native social platform for Gen Alpha. We've built a COPPA-compliant community where kids can create, collaborate, and grow safely. We're backed by top investors like a16z, moving fast, and hiring a mission-aligned Backend Engineer to help us power the next generation of personalized content...
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Senior Backend Engineer
3 weeks ago
Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton, Old Toronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Quebec, Winnipeg, Halifax, Saskatoon, Burnaby, Hamilton, Surrey, Victoria, London, Halton Hills, Regina, Markham, Brampton, Vaughan, Kelowna, Laval, Southwestern Ontario, R, Canada Vantage Full timeJoin to apply for the Senior Backend Engineer role at Vantage About The Role Vantage is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer. In this role you will focus on building features and integrations with partner systems while acting as a backend subject matter expert and mentor for our engineering team. You will design and deliver APIs that pull data from and push data...
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Senior Backend Engineer
3 weeks ago
Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, Old Toronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Quebec, Winnipeg, Halifax, Saskatoon, Burnaby, Hamilton, Surrey, Victoria, London, Halton Hills, Regina, Markham, Brampton, Vaughan, Kelowna, Laval, Southwestern Ontario, R, Canada Lumenalta Full timeJoin to apply for the Senior Backend Engineer (AWS) role at Lumenalta. This range is provided by Lumenalta. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range CA$76,000.00/yr - CA$139,000.00/yr Role Overview As a Senior Backend Engineer at Lumenalta, you will design and implement robust...
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Senior Backend Engineer
3 weeks ago
Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Old Toronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Quebec, Winnipeg, Halifax, Saskatoon, Burnaby, Hamilton, Surrey, Victoria, London, Halton Hills, Regina, Markham, Brampton, Vaughan, Kelowna, Laval, Southwestern Ontario, R, Canada Lumenalta Full timeRole Overview As a senior backend engineer at Lumenalta, you will design and implement robust backend systems, ensuring our applications are secure, scalable, and efficient. You will be responsible for working closely with DevOps and frontend teams to deliver high‑performance applications that leverage AWS cloud services and Kubernetes. You will also...
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Backend Engineer
3 weeks ago
Quebec, Canada GovernGPT Full timeAbout the TeamWe’re a YC-backed, profitable startup that’s bringing the first knowledge worker automations to reality in asset management. Every day the biggest firms in public and private markets rely on our software to more accurately, transparently, and rapidly update their investors on billions in investments.We build with the newest tools and every...
