Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform
Toronto · New York, NY · CAD 200,000-235,000 · Onsite · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Toronto · New York, NY
- Salary
- CAD 200,000-235,000 · Base salary
About the role
- The Backend Platform team builds and maintains shared frameworks, libraries, and tooling that support hundreds of engineers working across backend services.
- As a Staff Software Developer, you will set technical direction and lead large, multi-team initiatives that improve how backend systems are developed and operated.
- This role focuses on solving complex system-level challenges, influencing engineering practices across teams, and ensuring long-term scalability and reliability of backend development.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead large-scale initiatives that improve backend development systems, including frameworks, tooling, and shared libraries
- Design long-term technical solutions that support scalability, reliability, and maintainability across backend services
- Guide the evolution of core tooling such as static analysis, formatting systems, and service scaffolding used across the codebase
- Partner with engineering teams such as infrastructure, security, and product engineering to plan and execute platform improvements
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance that improves code quality, system design, and development practices
Requirements
- Extensive experience building and scaling backend systems using Go and Python
- Deep knowledge of backend frameworks such as Django, gRPC or comparable systems in Go
- Experience designing internal platforms, developer tooling (Bazel, etc), or shared infrastructure used by multiple teams
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects and influence engineering direction across teams
- Committed to improving developer workflows, system quality, and maintainability through thoughtful design
Benefits
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, and equity ownership
- Supplemental health insurance, ancillary insurance, and mental health support programs
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible employer-paid benefits spending account expenses beyond traditional benefits such as wellness, childcare, learning, and more
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, and more
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces
- Monthly commuter stipend to help offset in-office commuting costs
Workplace
- In-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week
Skills
- Go
- Python
- Django
- gRPC
- Bazel
