EvenUp
Senior Backend Engineer, Growth
Toronto (hybrid) · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 204 days ago
PythonJavaGoC++Code ReviewAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsA/B TestingLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- We empower personal injury lawyers and victims to get the justice they deserve.
- This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of being in our Toronto office three days per week.
- To ensure fairness and proper consideration, we do not accept resumes or expressions of interest via email or social media messages.
Responsibilities
- Backend Systems Development: Design, develop, and optimize robust backend systems that support growth-focused initiatives, ensuring reliability and performance at scale.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Data, and Engineering teams to interpret growth and experimentation requirements and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
- Platform & Framework Ownership: Lead the development of backend frameworks, libraries, and systems that enable experimentation, controlled rollouts, and measurable business impact.
- Complex Problem Solving: Collaborate with engineers on challenging backend problems, including data processing, experimentation frameworks, infrastructure, and integrations with large-scale AI/ML systems.
- Team Growth & Culture: Help build and reinforce the engineering culture in Toronto by sharing best practices, mentoring teammates, and maintaining a high bar for quality in a fast-paced environment.
- End-to-End Ownership: Own projects from inception through production deployment, ensuring alignment with standards for performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
- Proven experience building scalable, reliable backend systems and APIs in high-performance environments.
- Build and evolve scalable backend systems that power growth initiatives across the platform.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Engineering to translate growth and product needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Own complex engineering projects end-to-end, from design through deployment and iteration.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in backend engineering with a strong understanding of distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or C++, with the ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code.
- Experience thriving in startup or high-growth environments.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
Nice to have
- Experience on growth-focused or experimentation-driven teams.
- Exposure to AI/ML systems, particularly generative AI or data-intensive applications.
- Familiarity with data pipelines, analytics platforms, or experimentation tooling.
- Prior experience scaling backend systems in rapidly growing startups.
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.
- A home office stipend.
- Paid parental leave.
- As part of our total rewards package, we offer attractive benefits and perks to our employees, including:
- Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees
- We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- Bonus (Nice to have):
Company info
- Help build and reinforce the engineering culture in Toronto by sharing best practices, mentoring teammates, and maintaining a high bar for quality in a fast-paced environment.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
- We are committed to diversity and inclusion in our company.
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