Senior Backend Engineer, Entities & Platform
EvenUp
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Toronto • 🇨🇦 Canada
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💰 CA$99,800 - CA$271,200 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Distributed SystemsGoJavaPython
About the role
- Design, build, and enhance scalable backend systems supporting LLM-driven products and internal platforms
- Own infrastructure and services for reliable deployment, experimentation, and iteration of AI-powered systems
- Collaborate with engineering teams to gather requirements and deliver reusable, scalable solutions
- Influence the technical direction and long-term architecture of EvenUp’s AI platform
- Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability
- Drive projects from early design through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement
Requirements
- Extensive experience building frameworks, libraries, and distributed systems with a focus on reliability, observability, and performance
- Proficiency delivering production-ready code, managing infrastructure, and building RESTful APIs to industry standards
- Experience owning and delivering complex technical projects
- Success in startup or high-growth environments valuing speed, collaboration, and ownership
- Proficiency in Python or other languages (Go, Java, C++)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with proven cross-disciplinary collaboration
Benefits
- Choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your family
- Additional insurance coverage options for life, accident, or critical illness
- Flexible paid time off, sick leave, short-term and long-term disability
- 10 US observed holidays, and Canadian statutory holidays by province
- A home office stipend
- 401(k) for US-based employees and RRSP for Canada-based employees
- Paid parental leave
- A local in-person meet-up program
- Hubs in San Francisco and Toronto
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
backend systemsLLM-driven productsinfrastructure managementAI-powered systemsproduction-ready codeRESTful APIsPythonGoJavaC++
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationproject managementownershipiterative improvementcross-disciplinary collaboration