Senior​/Backend Engineer, Reliability

Canopy, Remote in these states: AL, AR, FL, GA, IL, MI, MN, NC, OH, OR, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA

Canopy is a fast-growing SaaS company in South Jordan, Utah building simple, efficient software for accounting firms. We are looking to revolutionize the accounting space with modern, user-friendly software for a neglected industry. We aim to help our clients unlock the firm they've always wanted with our Practice Management Suite. We place a strong emphasis on delighting our customers, spotting and solving problems, and being good people along the way.  

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We are hiring a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to help evolve and strengthen Canopy's payments and billing infrastructure. As our platform grows, we are investing in building a robust, scalable payments foundation with strong engineering standards, operational controls, and reliability best practices. This role will be a key technical leader in shaping how payments workflows are designed, implemented, and maintained across the organization.

You'll work cross‑functionally with product, engineering, QA, and operations to ensure payments systems remain resilient, observable, and easy to safely extend as new capabilities are introduced.

• Lead the design and development of core backend services supporting payments and billing workflows
• Implement microservice endpoints using Python, Postgre
  
  SQL, Redis, Rabbit
  
  MQ, and anything else you need to get the job done
• Establish and enforce engineering patterns for safe payment execution, including idempotency, auditability, and fault tolerance
• Build shared infrastructure and APIs that enable teams to integrate with payments in a consistent, reliable way
• Improve observability through logging, monitoring, tracing, and operational alerting
• Develop testing strategies and harnesses that validate real-world failure scenarios and edge cases
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to define a long‑term roadmap for payments platform improvements
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar on backend quality, resilience, and technical decision‑making
• Participate in architectural reviews and guide best practices across teams
• Participate in interviews of candidates to help us continue to hire the best

• At least 5 years of web development experience (Python required, Java/Kotlin preferred)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Strong experience working with payment processors as well as building and operating distributed systems in production
• Deep understanding of backend reliability principles, including safe retries, consistency, and fault tolerance
• Knowledge of RESTful API principles and conventions
• Passion for building innovative, scalable solutions that have real customer impact
• Ability to work well on a highly collaborative team and with other cross‑functional stakeholders
• Able to coordinate and lead out on large initiatives that can span several teams
• Ability to communicate well across teams and departments to promote ideas while showing mutual respect for others' opinions

• An interest for AI development and following the latest updates in the space
• Experience working with microservices
• Experience with leveraging 3rd party APIs and integrations

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• Flexible Paid Time Off – you’re actually encouraged to use, plus 10 company holidays!
• Health Benefits – including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA Match.
• 401(k) – we match 100% up to 3% of your contribution. Eligibility is immediate with 100% vesting.
• Mental Health – all employees have access to Impact Suite & to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Paid New Parent Leave & Birthing Parent Leave – so you’re able to care for your little ones.
• Supplemental Benefits – including 100% company paid Basic Life & AD&D insurance and…