Senior Software Engineer, Ecosystem Events

Accountabilities: • Design, develop, test, and deliver improvements to webhook services and APIs, ensuring reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

• Build, operate, and optimize event-driven systems capable of processing high volumes of traffic while maintaining availability and performance.

• Investigate complex technical issues across distributed services, identify root causes, and implement solutions that improve system reliability and delivery success.

• Enhance monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability tools to make production issues easier to diagnose and resolve.

• Collaborate with infrastructure teams responsible for databases, messaging queues, networking, and compute resources to address dependencies and improve platform performance.

• Support internal engineering teams and external integration use cases by providing technical guidance and helping developers build reliable webhook integrations.

• Contribute to technical direction by preparing architecture proposals, evaluating design alternatives, and developing experiments or prototypes to validate scaling strategies.

• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and use continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to release changes safely and efficiently.

• Participate in production support, including on-call and first-responder rotations, to investigate incidents, restore service health, and prevent recurring problems.

• Provide technical leadership through mentoring, pair programming, constructive code reviews, and knowledge sharing with fellow engineers.

• Identify opportunities to improve engineering workflows, operational practices, system performance, and development tools.

• Collaborate asynchronously with geographically distributed colleagues, documenting decisions clearly and maintaining effective communication across teams.

• Contribute to a customer-focused engineering culture that values ownership, experimentation, continuous learning, inclusion, and collective success.

Requirements:

• At least 6 years of experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline, with demonstrated experience maintaining and delivering production software in one or more programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python. Equivalent qualification and experience pathways include:

• An associate degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related field, combined with at least 5 years of relevant professional experience.

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related field, combined with at least 4 years of relevant professional experience.

• A master's degree in a relevant technical discipline, combined with at least 2 years of relevant professional experience.

• A doctorate in a relevant technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• At least 2 years of experience maintaining highly available, high-volume platforms.

• At least 2 years of experience building and maintaining event-driven systems.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, debugging, testing, code quality, and production support.

• Experience with general-purpose programming languages, particularly Go, Ruby, or comparable technologies, and scripting languages such as Python or Bash.

• Understanding of distributed systems, service-to-service communication, event processing, scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability engineering.

• Experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) technologies and concepts.

• Familiarity with messaging, queuing, or streaming technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.

• Experience working with relational databases and/or distributed database systems.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, source control, and modern software development practices.

• Ability to troubleshoot issues across service boundaries and collaborate with infrastructure teams to resolve complex technical dependencies.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document technical decisions, explain complex concepts, and collaborate effectively in a remote environment.

• Experience working with geographically distributed teams and an understanding of asynchronous collaboration practices.

• A proactive, ownership-driven mindset, with the ability to take responsibility for outcomes, learn from experimentation, and continuously improve systems and processes.

• Strong collaboration and mentoring skills, including a willingness to support colleagues through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.

• A customer-focused approach, with a commitment to delivering reliable, secure, and maintainable services that meet developer needs.

• An inclusive and growth-oriented mindset, with the ability to adapt to evolving technical challenges and contribute positively to a diverse engineering team.

Benefits:

• Remote-first flexibility: Work remotely from Canada, with an environment designed to support flexibility and productive collaboration across locations.

• Competitive compensation: Competitive pay, although a specific salary range is not disclosed in the available job description.

• Comprehensive employee benefits: Access to a benefits package designed to support employee well-being; specific healthcare, insurance, and retirement details are not provided in the posting.

• Learning and professional development: Opportunities to expand technical expertise, explore emerging technologies, and develop your engineering career.

• Technical ownership: The opportunity to influence architecture, solve complex distributed systems challenges, and improve critical infrastructure used by developers.

• Collaborative engineering culture: Work alongside experienced engineers and infrastructure specialists in a team that values knowledge sharing, mentorship, and collective problem-solving.

• Career growth: Opportunities to strengthen technical leadership skills through architecture proposals, mentoring, experimentation, and production ownership.

• Meaningful global impact: Contribute to the integrations and event-driven services that help developers and organizations build, connect, and automate software.

• Inclusive workplace: Join a diverse and supportive environment that welcomes applicants from different backgrounds and provides reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process.

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