Senior Backend Engineer

Noibu is the leading ecommerce monitoring and experience analytics platform, trusted by global brands to protect and grow online revenue. Monitoring websites 24/7, Noibu identifies critical site errors, performance bottlenecks, and customer experience friction that block the path to purchase—tying every opportunity to its financial impact across the funnel. With full visibility into errors, performance, and site friction, ecommerce teams can act fast on what matters most—whether that means resolving issues that block conversions or uncovering new opportunities to optimize the journey.

Trusted by Guess, Swarovski, Cartier, and True Religion, Noibu enables retailers to recover lost sales, prevent disruptions, and turn every improvement into measurable growth. Proudly named Canada’s Great Place to work in 2025!

This Senior Backend Engineer at Noibu is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining APIs and the systems that power them. The role focuses on feature improvements and maintenance of microservices, and building APIs to deliver the critical data our customers need to monitor their eCommerce websites. The objective is to ensure backend systems are high‑performing, reliable, and aligned with business needs while collaborating with the engineering team and broader stakeholders.

• You’ll design, implement, and optimize backend applications using Rust and Go, with a focus on building resilient APIs.
• You’ll build features such as log drains and data analytics engines to help customers gain insights into their eCommerce platforms.
• You’ll work closely with frontend developers to ensure seamless integration of backend components with frontend services, participate in project discussions, and contribute to decision‑making processes.
• You’ll implement services that collect, process, archive, explore, and monitor log data from various sources.
• You’ll stay on top of the latest backend technologies, learning and applying new releases, libraries, and methodologies to continually improve Noibu’s technology stack.

• Able to write clean, idiomatic Rust code that follows best practices and modern language features.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.
• Proficiency in SQL and its variants, along with relational databases.
• Familiarity with Elastic Search and its application for search and analytics.
• Strong understanding of at least one VM backend language Rust and Go.
• Experience with columnar databases.
• Proven experience in designing high‑throughput, fault‑tolerant applications.
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• A solid grasp of the software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies.

• Have a strong proficiency in Clickhouse or other columnar databases.
• Flexible and comfortable wearing multiple hats when necessary.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
• Self‑motivated and resourceful, with the ability to work independently and within a team.
• Passionate about building high‑performing, fault‑tolerant backend systems.

• Cloud Infrastructure: GCP + AWS
• Data Storage:
  Clickhouse, SQL databases
• Search and Analytics:
  Elastic Search
• Messaging Systems:
  Pub/Sub
• Microservices:
  Rust and Go
• Programming
  
  Languages:
  
  Rust, Go, Type Script
• API Integrations:
  Graph
  
  QL and Web Sockets
• CI/CD and Orchestration:
  Fully automated builds via CI/CD in Kubernetes

🦄 We’re working to be Ottawa’s next Unicorn. Noibu is going to impact billions of shoppers. By joining our small team on the ground floor, you have the opportunity to do something amazing with us and grow more than you even realize is possible.

🕰️ Unlimited Time Off & Flexible Working Style. In addition to unlimited time off, we enforce an annual minimum of 3 weeks for all employees and have a company‑wide holiday shutdown yearly. Our flexible working style means you get to choose the hours that work best for you.

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