Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Syndio is a pay governance and compensation intelligence platform that helps organizations make fairer, more informed compensation decisions. The Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer will design, build, and scale high-throughput distributed systems, owning backend services end-to-end from API design and data modeling through infrastructure deployment, monitoring, and production operations.
Responsibilities
- Design, ship, and operate core distributed microservices written in Go and Python
- Build real-time event streaming and data processing pipelines using Kafka
- Architect performant, flexible API interfaces across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC protocols
- Design efficient schemas and optimize query performance for relational storage using Postgres and modern ORMs
- Provision, maintain, and scale cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS using Terraform and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
- Ensure high reliability, low latency, and operational visibility across backend systems using Datadog
Skills
- **7+ years** building and operating backend systems in production
- Deep comfort with **Go** and **Python**, with strong experience building concurrent, high-performance systems
- Strong database fundamentals with **Postgres** and relational **ORMs**, including query optimization and schema migration strategies
- Experience building and maintaining event-driven architectures with **Kafka**
- Expertise designing production APIs across **REST**, **GraphQL**, or **gRPC**
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments (**GCP** and/or **AWS**), Infrastructure as Code via **Terraform**, and continuous delivery via **GitHub Actions**
- Operational mindset: familiarity with observability, distributed tracing, and metrics tooling in **Datadog**
- Strong written communication to author design docs and lead clear PR reviews
- Own a technical domain with light supervision: propose direction in writing with clear specs, take review, ship, and carry the pager for what you shipped
Benefits
- Syndio Equity. So you can share in Syndio’s success
- Flexible Vacation Policy. We encourage our team to recharge when they need to (up to 20 days PTO in Canada)
- Paid sick & safe time
- Compassion leave
- Voting leave
- Syndio pays 90% of employee medical, dental, and vision premiums, and 50% for dependents.
- Syndio covers the full premium for life insurance and disability.
- Remote-first in US + Alberta
- In Calgary, non-mandatory office available
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