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Senior Backend Engineer

Toronto💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-27

Core

Design, build, and scale backend services and distributed systems for document processing and workflow automation in a B2B SaaS platform.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer (Infrastructure & Distributed Systems)

Builds

Document intelligence pipelines, real-time workflow execution engines, and scalable cloud infrastructure

Domain

Financial services technology / B2B SaaS

Required skills

Backend system design, distributed architecture, asynchronous processing pipelines, AWS cloud infrastructure, API development, system performance optimization, observability, code quality and testing

Preferred skills

Data processing/ETL pipelines, document processing/OCR, event-driven architectures, financial services domain experience, high-growth startup experience

Technologies

Node.js, Django, AWS, SQS

Responsibilities

Design and scale backend services for document processing; develop asynchronous pipelines for large data volumes; build and maintain AWS-based infrastructure; optimize systems for performance and cost; collaborate with product teams to define requirements; mentor engineers and improve deployment processes

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership

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