Senior​/Backend Engineer, Reliability

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Payments Reliability

South Jordan, UT

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

We know many women do not apply for a job if they don’t perfectly fit the description. We want you to apply anyway.

🌴 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.

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