Senior Backend Developer,Campaigns Team Job Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA,Software Development

Accountabilities

- Design and develop campaign infrastructure:
Build and maintain robust backend systems that allow marketers to create, configure, and schedule campaigns across multiple communication channels.
- Own campaign authoring and content assembly:
Develop systems that transform creative assets, templates, and targeting rules into delivery-ready campaigns, resolving content variations and audience eligibility before distribution.
- Ensure reliable campaign delivery:
Build and maintain the services responsible for preparing, monitoring, and transferring campaigns to delivery systems, with effective monitoring and alerting to identify failures and delays.
- Enable audience targeting and personalization:
Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to integrate audience segmentation and personalization signals into campaign workflows, ensuring relevant content reaches the appropriate recipients.
- Build extensible platform capabilities:
Design configurable systems that accommodate new campaign formats, communication channels, and scheduling requirements while minimizing engineering complexity.
- Maintain operational excellence:
Improve service reliability through observability, performance metrics, alerting, incident management, and shared on-call responsibilities.
- Deliver features end to end:
Take ownership of complex backend initiatives throughout technical design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Promote engineering quality:
Champion code quality, automated testing, maintainable architecture, and effective software development practices while mentoring junior engineers and sharing technical knowledge.

Requirements

- Professional experience:
At least five years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend applications.
- Distributed systems expertise:
Demonstrated experience developing fault-tolerant, highly concurrent distributed systems that operate reliably at scale.
- Programming proficiency:
Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with modern backend languages such as Python or Ruby.
- Software engineering best practices:
Expertise in system design, unit testing, Git, code reviews, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated deployment.
- Database knowledge:
Strong experience with relational databases, schema design, and query optimization, particularly PostgreSQL or comparable technologies.
- API development:
Understanding of modern web API architectures and technologies, including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and gRPC.
- Cloud infrastructure:
Experience building and operating cloud-based applications using AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, or comparable services.
- Distributed technologies:
Familiarity with microservices, containerization, orchestration, and messaging systems such as Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Docker.
- Technical leadership:
Ability to guide technical decisions, communicate effectively, collaborate across teams, and mentor less experienced engineers without compromising delivery quality.
- Problem-solving skills:
Strong analytical abilities, with a proven capacity to investigate complex technical challenges, identify root causes, and develop effective solutions collaboratively.
- Continuous learning: A proactive mindset, adaptability to evolving technologies, and a commitment to improving engineering practices and professional capabilities.

Benefits

- Competitive compensation:
Annual base salary ranging from CAD $140,000 to $180,000 , depending on relevant experience, skills, and job-related qualifications.
- Additional compensation:
Potential bonus opportunities depending on the position ultimately offered.
- Comprehensive benefits:
Access to a broad range of medical, financial, and other employee benefits.
- Remote work:
Remote opportunity for candidates based in Canada.
- Career development:
Opportunities to take ownership of complex technical projects, contribute to architectural decisions, and expand technical leadership skills.
- Collaborative environment:
Work alongside cross-functional teams on innovative products and high-impact engineering challenges.
- Inclusive workplace:
Join an organization committed to equal opportunity, diversity, and creating an environment where people from different backgrounds can thrive.
- Technical growth:
Gain experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, messaging technologies, and scalable personalization platforms.

Senior Backend Developer, Campaigns Team