Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer### Backend Engineer Apply:
Remote, Canada:
Poland, Virtual:
Remote, Germany:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R60190
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* Job Summary:

** At Modaxo, we're passionate about changing the face of people transportation. We believe that all transportation services should be safe, efficient, convenient, and equitable. Our products power mission-critical operations across a variety of industry sectors. We're making a strategic investment in AI to transform our solutions.
You will build the core services of a new enterprise AI platform - the APIs, orchestration, and data and integration on-ramps that our products build on. We ship working software on aggressive timelines; perfect is the enemy of shipped.  You'll report to the Head of AI Platform Engineering and join a small, senior founding team building the platform from the ground up.

The opportunity:

build the services an entire product portfolio depends on, with a clean slate and real ownership.
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* Job Description:

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** Why this role is different
*** It's platform AND product. You build reusable platform capability while enabling product teams to ship features fast - balancing leverage with velocity.
* It's domain-first, not tech-first. You'll learn our customers' operational domain; the best platform choices come from understanding how the work actually runs.
* It's pragmatic build/buy. We win on integration and reliability using proven components - pragmatic decisions, not gold-plating.
* It's a founding role - you help build the team. As an early hire you'll set the patterns, tests, and guardrails others build on, and help raise the bar as we hire.
* It's production-first, not research-first. We ship on aggressive timelines and own what we ship.
* It's value-based. You'll validate with product teams and customers and prioritize by value - building what moves outcomes, not what's novel.#
** What You'll Do**##
** Core Platform Services
*** Design and build core backend services - APIs, orchestration, and access control - as reliable, well-tested production systems.
* Shape API design and developer experience for internal and external consumers of the platform.
* Contribute to the reference architecture and design records; keep boundaries clean so components stay swappable.##
** Multi-Tenant SaaS & Integration
*** Build for multiple customers on shared infrastructure: isolation, quotas, and usage metering done properly.
* Build data and integration on-ramps - connector frameworks and governed data access that are idempotent and reliable at scale.##
** Ownership & Reliability
*** Own services end to end: design, implementation, tests, deployment, and on-call for what you ship.
* Model failure modes explicitly - partial failure, retries, consistency, back-pressure - and design for them.##
** Delivering Value with Product & Customers
*** Work with product teams and customers to validate results and outcomes, prioritizing by value.
* Take a value-based development approach: prove value with the smallest useful slice, then scale what works.
* Instrument and measure impact; let evidence - not opinion - drive what ships.
* Build automated QA - tests, quality gates, and regression checks - into the delivery pipeline.##
** Building the Team & Ways of Working
*** Help build the team: contribute to hiring, raise the bar in interviews, and mentor as we grow.
* Foster a culture of technical excellence, customer obsession, and pragmatic shipping.
* Partner with product teams across the portfolio who own their own roadmaps.#
** What You'll Bring
** We look at demonstrated experience and scope, not years served - and we don't expect every candidate to tick every box.
* Production distributed systems:
You've built and operated production backend or distributed services that other teams depend on.
* End-to-end ownership:
You own correctness, tests, and operations for what you build.
* Trade-off reasoning:
You describe systems by the trade-offs you made, not just the technologies you used.
* Clear communication:
You explain your thinking clearly to engineers, product partners, and customers, and bring people along.
* Value and pragmatism:
You focus on outcomes and value and make pragmatic calls to ship.  #
** Bonus Points
** Any of these strengthen an application - none are required:
* Multi-tenant SaaS:
Backend services serving many customers with enforced isolation and metering.
* Gateways & orchestration: API gateways or workflow orchestration at scale.
* Integration frameworks:
Connector or integration frameworks…