Senior Software Engineer, Backend (ML Feature Platform)

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Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan
Workplace: RemoteFull timeCAD 153,000 - 213,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Communication","Ownership","Problem-solving","Quality mindset"]

Own and deliver backend platform capabilities for ML feature creation, exploration, and serving within the ML Feature Platform team. Lead engineering through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, collaborate with product/design/analytics on trade-offs, and drive reliability with metrics, incident escalation, and on-call. Set code review and design standards, advocate quality and ownership, and grow talent while using scalable, highly available distributed systems.

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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (ML Feature Platform)

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Job Summary

Own and deliver backend platform capabilities for ML feature creation, exploration, and serving within the ML Feature Platform team. Lead engineering through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, collaborate with product/design/analytics on trade-offs, and drive reliability with metrics, incident escalation, and on-call. Set code review and design standards, advocate quality and ownership, and grow talent while using scalable, highly available distributed systems.
Location: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and deliver quarterly goals, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
  • •Partner with product management, design, and analytics across the product development lifecycle by articulating technical constraints and risks.
  • •Proactively identify and advocate for project, process, technology, or business issues, and lead their resolution.
  • •Support operations and availability of team artifacts by creating/monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and participating in on-call.
  • •Foster quality and ownership by setting/improving code review and design standards, advocating beyond the team, and helping develop talent.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 153,000 - 213,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionEquityPaid LeaveLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
  • •Proven experience building highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
  • •Ability to define a technical plan for delivering a significant feature or component with an elegant, simple, extensible design and high-quality, understandable code.
  • •Experience making significant changes in a large codebase using tools and practices that enable safe delivery.
  • •Demonstrated ownership of your growth through proactively seeking feedback and strong verbal and written communication with global stakeholders.
Experience:4+ yearsMLDistributed systemsBackend engineering
Skills:CollaborationCommunicationOwnershipProblem-solvingQuality mindset
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonKotlinAWSMySQLKubernetes

Company Brief

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Provides point-of-sale lending and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) solutions for consumers and merchants, enabling installment payments, consumer financing, and embedded financial services through APIs and partnerships with retailers and platforms.
Industry: Lending
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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