Senior Backend Engineer

2 days ago

remote Vancouver Remote Canada CANADA fulltime March Open Roles Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year
Modes is a digital transformation and organizational design collective working with various clients throughout North America. Our focus is on financial services. We help our clients plan, design, and launch digital human-centered experiences that cater to their users' needs and deliver elegant solutions to their toughest challenges. Our team works with best-of-breed technologies and unique projects with great clients. We constantly seek top talent to join our growing team and support our clients with innovative solutions.
We're seeking a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer with a proven track record in consulting or professional services firms and hands‑on experience delivering robust, scalable solutions for financial services organizations. This is an opportunity for a forward-thinking individual looking to be a part of a team shaping the future of financial services. If you are interested in the opportunity and Modes sounds like a fit, then go ahead and hit that APPLY BUTTON In this role, you will work with customers and our technology partners on implementation projects across North America. How would you guide them to success? 
  • You have experience working with customers within the financial services industry;
  • You have experience designing, building, and deploying mission-critical technical services at a large scale with a consulting or professional services organization; 
  • You have experience supporting production systems and dealing with production issues; 
  • You have experience designing and implementing systems and processes for software development teams, including source control, configuration management, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and/or infrastructure as code; 
  • You have experience identifying and resolving issues in workflows and processes in software development teams; 
  • You have outstanding written and verbal communication skills, and you work well with your team, not just alone; 
  • You have solid skills in a significant fraction of these tools, languages, and technologies: 

Package and dependency management, such as:
  • Maven / Gradle / Ant or similar Java dependency management system 
  • NPM or similar Node package manager 
  • Apt / Yum / APK / homebrew or similar OS package managers 
  • CocoaPods / Carthage / Swift or similar package manager for iOS 
  • Container registries such as DockerHub 
  • Generic artifact repositories such as JFrog, Nexus, Artifactory 

CI/CD pipeline systems, such as:
  • Jenkins 
  • GitHub Actions 
  • Azure Pipelines 
  • ArgoCD 
  • CircleCI 
  • GitLabCI 

Scripting / programming / automation / software development - proficiency in any of these:
  • POSIX Shell scripting (BaSH, etc) 
  • C / Python / Ruby / Rust / Golang 
  • Java or JavaScript a bonus 
  • Docker or a comparable container engine / runtime 
  • Kubernetes or a comparable container orchestration solution: 
  • Kubectl or comparable CLI 
  • Manifest files, Helm, or comparable packaging/deployment solution 
  • OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, or comparable hosting solution 
  • Bonus points for experience with the finer points of overlays or mesh networks in Kubernetes, such as Istio 
  • UNIX / GNU / Linux operating system fundamentals 
  • Especially environment variables/shell processes 

For deploying and supporting Java server applications:
  • JVM tuning 
  • Tomcat, JBoss, or another application server 
  • Spring Boot or similar framework environment 

For deploying and supporting JavaScript web applications:
  • HTTP headers, cookies, and caching 
  • Nginx, Apache, or another webserver 
  • Angular or similar framework environment 

Network protocols and systems, especially:
  • DNS 
  • HTTP/S 
  • mTLS 
  • TCP 
  • UDP 
  • SSH 

Public Cloud Hosting / Platforms - some significant experience, including automation using API or CLI, with at least one of:
  • AWS 
  • Azure 
  • GCP 
  • IBM Cloud 
  • VMWare Cloud or any comparable on-premises cloud 

IBM Relational Databases - any of the following:
  • MySQL 
  • MS SQL Server 
  • Oracle DB 

Bonus: Infrastructure and configuration management as code, such as:
  • Terraform 
  • Ansible 
  • Chef 
  • Puppet 
  • You hold a Bachelor's degree or equivalent training/experience 
  Top Perks and Benefits
  • Market Competitive Salary 
  • Enhanced Personal and Family Benefits Plan (Health, Dental, Life, Disability and Travel) 
  • Generous Vacation and Flex Day 
  • Home office setup allowance  
  • Training allowance and Ongoing Learning opportunities 
  • Community Partnership Opportunities 
  • Remote Work 

Modes is an equal-opportunity employer and does not discriminate against protected characteristics. We embrace the diversity of our global team members and the strengths and experiences they bring to Modes, our clients, partners , and vendors. 

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