Senior​/Software Engineer, Backend; US - Remote or Calgary

A compensation intelligence platform is hiring a Senior or Staff Backend Engineer to join its core platform engineering group. The team builds the high-throughput distributed services that power pay-governance and pay-equity analysis for enterprise HR, compensation, and finance leaders, and the role carries end-to-end ownership from API design through production operations.

• Design, ship, and operate core distributed microservices written primarily in Go and Python.
• Build real-time event streaming and data processing pipelines using Kafka.
• Architect performant APIs across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC protocols.
• Model schemas and tune query performance on Postgres with modern ORM tooling.
• Provision and scale cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS using Terraform and Git Hub Actions CI/CD.
• Monitor reliability, latency, and operational health with Datadog and respond to production incidents.

• 7+ years building and operating backend systems in production at scale.
• Deep proficiency in Go and Python, including concurrent and high-performance designs.
• Strong Postgres and relational ORM fundamentals, including query optimization and migration strategy.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining Kafka-based event-driven architectures.
• Production API expertise across REST, GraphQL, and/or gRPC.
• Operational mindset with observability tooling such as Datadog, distributed tracing, and metrics.

• Experience proposing technical direction in written design docs and leading rigorous PR reviews.
• Comfort owning a domain with light supervision and carrying the pager for what you ship.

• Remote-first within the US and Alberta, with a non-mandatory Calgary office available.
• Targeted compensation of USD 180,000 to 210,000 or CAD 175,000 to 205,000, depending on experience.
• Equity participation, flexible vacation policy (up to 20 days PTO in Canada), paid sick and safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with the employer paying 90% of employee premiums and 50% for dependents, plus full-premium life and disability insurance.