Senior Backend Engineer
FeatheryAI Automation company
Toronto, CanadaSenior
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About the role
TL;DR
Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale core infrastructure for a document intelligence and workflow platform.
- •Feathery is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help build and scale the core infrastructure behind their document intelligence and workflow platform.
- •This role involves designing reliable, high-performance systems and taking ownership of backend architecture in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.
- •You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and customer-facing teams to deliver systems that are fast, resilient, and deeply aligned with customer needs.
- •Key Responsibilities Design, build, and scale backend services for document processing and workflow automation.
- •Develop asynchronous pipelines and distributed systems for handling large data volumes.
- •Build and maintain infrastructure using AWS services and queueing systems.
- •Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
- •Contribute to product planning and technical scoping.
- •Requirements 4-7+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems.
- •Strong proficiency in backend frameworks like Node.js or Django.
- •Experience designing distributed systems and asynchronous processing pipelines.
- •Solid experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure.
- •Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.
Required skills
Node.jsDjangoAWSPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptMicroservicesREST APIGraphQL
Domain expertise
fintechinsurtech
Benefits & perks
Competitive compensation and equity, Health, dental, and vision coverage, Unlimited PTO, Office snacks and lunches, Company offsite
Tech stack
Node.jsDjangoAWSPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptMicroservicesREST APIGraphQL