Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optimyze1 is a fast-growing AI start-up seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join its highly collaborative, cross-functional team. The role involves architecting and maintaining scalable backend services and APIs, while collaborating closely with product and design teams to enhance user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, and maintain scalable services, data models, and APIs that power core platform functionality
- Take full ownership of feature lifecycles — from technical design to deployment and ongoing maintenance
- Work closely with product, data, and design teams to deliver seamless, user-friendly experiences
- Build internal tools and infrastructure that improve team productivity and platform reliability
- Promote and implement engineering best practices, focusing on scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Contribute to the long-term technical roadmap and system architecture decisions
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and databases
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
- Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability
- Collaborate with frontend and product teams to integrate features and deliver end-to-end functionality
- Implement best practices in security, data privacy, and compliance
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical planning
- Monitor, debug, and troubleshoot production systems
- Contribute to continuous improvement of development processes and tools
Skills
- 8+ years of experience as a Senior Backend Engineer or in a similar role
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend programming language (e.g., Java, Python, Go, Node.js, C#)
- Experience with frameworks such as Spring Boot, Express, Django, or FastAPI
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, or gRPC
- Hands-on experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL)
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Experience working with infrastructure
- Strong understanding of system design, distributed systems, and microservices architecture
- Experience working with infrastructure engineers
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git, and automated testing
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
- Prior experience in a fast-paced startup or agile environment
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Flexible working arrangements (remote/hybrid options). 1 day a week in the co-working space if you are within the Greater Toronto Area
- Professional growth and learning opportunities
- Inclusive and collaborative team culture
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