Software Engineer, Backend

1 month ago Be among the first 25 applicants This range is provided by Butter Payments. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range CA$180,000.00/yr - CA$230,000.00/yr About Butter Payments At Butter Payments, we’re on a mission to eliminate involuntary churn and make recurring payments seamless. Every year, billions of dollars are lost due to failed payments. Butter leverages machine learning, deep financial data partnerships, and behavioral insights to ensure the right payments go through at the right time—without friction. We're backed by world-class investors like Atomic & Norwest Venture Partners, and we're growing fast. Summary: In this role you’ll use your unique combination of data engineering and backend software development expertise to solve business problems. As part of the Engineering team, you’ll build data heavy applications that directly provide value to our customers, internal and external. Who We’re Looking For: We’re looking for someone who understands data engineering and can combine that knowledge with software engineering experience to build systems where producing and managing data is the first-class concern. What You’ll Do: Build backend applications that interact with a variety of disparate APIs and data sources. Develop and grow client facing APIs that are flexible but standardize the data passed to them in a clean and consistent way. Orchestrate asynchronous workflows using technologies such as Temporal. Collaborate with data engineering, machine learning, and analytics teams to ensure that the data our applications are producing scales to meet needs across the company. Build data models into our applications that transpose the messy data of the outside world into clean data our applications can operate on. Develop and operate software in production. What You Have: 5+ years of professional experience between data engineering and software engineering roles You’ve worked with Python and SQL in a previous role You’ve worked with cloud based systems such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure You have experience writing and operating software in production Strong analytical, problem solving, communication, and debugging skills Can respond iteratively and rapidly to changes in business requirements Nice To Have: BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent You have API design experience Experience working in high-growth fintech or payments startups Experience building systems with a State Machine architecture Bonus points for Temporal or AWS Step Functions experience Engineering Philosophies: Data outlives code Technology is strategic for the business Simplicity over complexity Embrace hard conversations AWS, Python, Kubernetes (EKS), Github Actions, Terraform, CockroachDB, Snowflake, Kafka, DataDog We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you’re excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. Butter Payments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Butter considers all qualified applicants in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Please review our CCPA policies here. Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Engineering and Information Technology Software Development Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Butter Payments by 2x Get notified about new Software Engineer jobs in Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area . #J-18808-Ljbffr