Senior Backend Engineer, Analytics

Movable Ink

Senior Backend Engineer joining Movable Ink's analytics team to build scalable backend systems. Designing data pipelines and mentoring junior engineers on software engineering best practices.

Posted 5/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 CA$140,000 - CA$180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerElixirGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLGRPCKafkaKubernetesPythonRabbitMQRuby

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems that power our measurement, attribution, and reporting capabilities
Develop robust data pipelines and services to transform raw event streams and metrics into actionable insights
Collaborate closely with stakeholders to define and shape a seamless, intuitive reporting UI that empowers users to understand and act on provided insights
Own key backend components—from service architecture to deployment and monitoring—ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance at scale
Champion engineering best practices around code quality, testing, observability, and system health
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years software engineering experience
Experience building and maintaining large distributed systems at scale that are fault tolerant and highly concurrent
Exemplary software engineering skills (design, unit testing, git, code review, CI/CD)
Strong foundation in modern backend development (e.g. python, ruby, etc. - we use Python and Elixir)
Experience with functional programming principles (we use Elixir)
An understanding of common web based API architectures (RESTful, GraphQL) and technologies (gRPC)
Experience with a cloud provider e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP (we use Google Cloud Platform)
Experience with modern distributed and microservice technologies (we use Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Experience with both OLTP and OLAP systems, including designing schemas and optimizing queries
Familiar with Software Development Lifecycle practices, such as continuous integration/continuous delivery and automated deployment (we use tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Github Actions, etc.)
Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to collaborate with others, communicate effectively, advocate appropriately and mentor more junior engineers to improve team efficiency
Exceptional problem-solving skills, including the ability to efficiently identify, analyze, and resolve complex issues, and communicate to others on the team how to contribute to the solutions for these issues.
A willingness and eagerness to continuously learn, adapt to evolving technologies, and strive for personal and professional improvement.

Benefits

Comp & perks

full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringbackend developmentPythonElixirfunctional programmingAPI architecturesRESTfulGraphQLOLTP systemsOLAP systems

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationcommunicationmentoringproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementownershipcode qualitytestingobservability