Senior Backend Engineer II, AI Native, Pets & Things Experiences

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain backend services that support device connectivity, telemetry ingest
• Collaborate with firmware, mobile, and product teams to define APIs and workflows for device
• Deliver scalable, resilient systems in a microservices environment running on AWS (EKS, Lambda
• Build and own data pipelines for high-throughput streams using Kafka or similar streaming tech.
• Instrument services for observability, reliability, and SLO compliance.
• Participate in on-call rotations and live incident response.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience building backend services in Java, Go, Python, or similar languages.
• Experience with microservices architecture, RESTful API design, and distributed systems.
• Strong skills with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), container orchestration, and deployments.
• Experience with databases (relational and/or NoSQL), caching layers, and event/streaming systems.
• Comfortable collaborating across teams and articulating technical tradeoffs.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits.
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees
• Paid parental leave.
• 401(k) plan with company matching for US; RRSP with DPSP for Canada.
• Mental Wellness Program & EAP.
• Flexible PTO and 12 company-wide days off.