What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer, Core Experience position at Jobgether?
This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Core Experience in Canada.
This role sits at the core of a high-scale consumer platform, focused on improving how users discover products, navigate content, and complete purchases through highly reliable backend systems. You will design and evolve the services that power personalized shopping experiences, ensuring seamless interaction between customer intent and large-scale product catalogs. Working in a data-driven, experimentation-heavy environment, you will collaborate closely with ML engineers, product managers, and data scientists to build intelligent, scalable systems. Your work will directly impact user experience, shaping how millions of customers interact with the platform every day. The role blends backend architecture ownership with product thinking, requiring strong technical depth and a passion for building systems that adapt to user behavior. You will also contribute to strategic technical decisions that influence the future direction of core consumer experiences.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend systems that support core user shopping and discovery experiences.
- Lead the technical direction and roadmap of backend services, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
- Develop new features that enhance personalization, recommendations, and content discoverability across web and mobile platforms.
- Own and evolve critical backend components, ensuring alignment with both technical standards and product requirements.
- Collaborate closely with ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams to deliver data-driven, user-centric features.
- Drive architectural decisions and ensure end-to-end execution of projects from design through deployment and production support.
- Partner across teams to ensure consistency, system integration, and alignment on technical and product strategy.
- Improve system observability, performance, and quality through monitoring, testing, and iterative optimization.
Requirements:
- 5 years of backend software engineering experience with a proven track record of delivering scalable production systems.
- Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as Go, Ruby, or similar.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, API design, and backend architecture principles.
- Experience with GraphQL-based services and modern backend development practices.
- Strong experience with databases such as PostgreSQL and search systems like AWS OpenSearch.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog or similar).
- Experience working in data-driven environments, ideally with exposure to ML-powered systems or recommendation engines.
- Strong problem-solving skills, unit testing practices, and attention to system reliability and quality.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and data teams.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation with a base salary range of approximately $168,000 – $177,500 USD (location-dependent within Canada)
- Equity grants and annual refresh stock opportunities
- Flexible remote-first work model across eligible Canadian provinces
- Comprehensive health, dental, and wellness benefits
- Strong focus on work-life balance through flexible scheduling
- Opportunity to work on large-scale systems impacting millions of users daily
- Collaborative, cross-functional engineering culture with strong emphasis on experimentation and innovation
- Inclusive and diverse workplace committed to equity and belonging.
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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